Archive for December, 2015
Wednesday, December 30th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 30, 2015 MUNICH — The first-movement cadenza exploded out of its context in Daniil Trifonov’s novel reading here Dec. 14 of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. This meant, among other compromises, a slight suppression of everything that preceded it, including the 130-measure development. Trifonov understated the folksy first subject and sped […]
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Tags: Alla reminiscenza, Andreas Korn, Daniil Trifonov, Gasteig, Le poème de l’extase, Medtner, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Rachmaninoff, Review, Scriabin, Valery Gergiev
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead You are not likely to find Schoenberg at the center of a regular symphony concert in any season. The concert of December 4th of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, at the Auditorium at Radio France, with music of Brahms and Schoenberg, would be not high on my list except for one […]
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Tags: Arnold Schoenberg, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Lise de la Salle, mikko franck, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
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Thursday, December 17th, 2015
By Sedgwick Clark Last Monday was one of the best concerts I’ve heard so far this season. Itzhak Perlman led the Juilliard Orchestra in an all-Tchaikovsky program at David Geffen Hall: Romeo and Juliet, Rococo Variations for cello and orchestra, featuring the impressive soloist Edvard Pogossian, and the Sixth Symphony (Pathétique). I love the commitment and brio of […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. I realize there are other equally important issues out there than visas and international touring. However, in the wake of the recent terrorist attack in California, and as U.S. politicians and political candidates roll out a “Keep the Hate Alive” campaign, we are constantly receiving alarming updates from clients […]
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Tags: approval notice, audition, canadians, cancellation, competitions, exceptions, immigration, immigration law, performer, processing times, Tour, travel, university, uscis, validity period, visa petition, visa petitions, visa waiver program, visas, waiver, work
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
***Watch the entire interview with Nico at Noted Endeavors’ website: WATCH HERE. Star composer Nico Muhly discusses with Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson some ways in which young composers can get their music into the hands of performers, and how that will help to progress one’s career. Nico Muhly (b. 1981) is […]
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