Archive for February 21st, 2013
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
by Sedgwick Clark NOTE: BEGINNING THIS WEEK, I’LL BE POSTING MY BLOG ON THURSDAYS AT NOON RATHER THAN WEDNESDAYS. Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and its current music director, Mariss Jansons, stopped by Carnegie Hall last week (2/13 and 14) for a pair of concerts to celebrate the ensemble’s 125th anniversary. They were a […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 21, 2013 MUNICH — As dramaturgy, Calixto Bieito’s new staging here of Mussorgsky’s seven‑scene 1869 Boris Godunov (heard and seen yesterday, Feb. 20) runs into trouble almost immediately. Set in present‑day Russia — identifiable by the up‑to‑date, thug‑police gear and the wall map in Boris’s Terem (Scene V) — it […]
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Tags: Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Anatoli Kotcherga, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bieito, Boris Godunov, Gerhard Siegel, Kent Nagano, Kevin Conners, Mezzo TV, München, Munich, Mussorgsky, Okka von der Damerau, Review, Sergei Skorokhodov, Staatsoper Hamburg, Vladimir Matorin, Vladimir Putin
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
by Sedgwick Clark NOTE: BEGINNING THIS WEEK, I’LL BE POSTING MY BLOG ON THURSDAYS AT NOON RATHER THAN WEDNESDAYS. Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and its current music director, Mariss Jansons, stopped by Carnegie Hall last week (2/13 and 14) for a pair of concerts to celebrate the ensemble’s 125th anniversary. They were a great success, […]
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Tags: Bernard Haitink, Boulez, carnegie hall, Furtwängler, james levine, Leonidas Kavakos, Mariss Jansons, metropolitan opera, musical america, Riccardo Chailly, sedgwick clark, Staatskapelle Berlin, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. About a month ago, I attended a panel discussion at Chamber Music America’s 35th annual conference in New York during which one of the panelists, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, spoke of her quest to make her concerts as personal, intimate and warm as possible. Reinforced by […]
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