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The Elephant in the Audience

Wednesday, May 14th, 2014

By James Conlon Last Friday night, May 9, I conducted a program at Carnegie Hall, the penultimate concert not only for this year’s installment of Spring for Music, but, it would seem, forever. In the audience, it seemed to me, was an enormous (they usually are) and benevolent elephant. I appeared there with the forces […]

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A Jazz Rite that Sounds Right

Wednesday, May 14th, 2014

The Rite of Spring Stravinsky performed by the Bad Plus Sony Masterworks CD   It has long been a touchstone and signifying landmark for Twentieth Century, but particularly around its centenary (2013), Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring) provoked much conversation, reevaluation, and reinterpretation. One can imagine a jazz trio translation of the piece […]

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