Posts Tagged ‘Boulez’
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 27, 2015 SALZBURG — Two beggars sat on either side of the entrance to the Haus für Mozart Aug. 6 as attendees arrived for Norma. As if this was not alarming enough — and it disturbed one’s thoughts more than the tense Résistance staging of Bellini’s opera inside — another […]
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Tags: Adrian Sâmpetrean, Alvis Hermanis, Artur Ruciński, Bartoli, Bellini, Boulez, Commentary, Coro della Radio-Televisione Svizzera, Decca, Della Miles, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Eleanor, Francesco Meli, Gianandrea Noseda, Giovanni Antonini, Giuseppe Verdi, Großes Festspielhaus, Haus für Mozart, Herbert von Karajan, Hilary Summers, John Osborn, Klangforum Wien, Kollegienkirche, Le marteau sans maître, Lonicera caprifolium, Maurizio Biondi, Michele Pertusi, Moshe Leiser, Netrebko, Norma, Olga Neuwirth, Orchestra La Scintilla, Patrice Caurier, Rebeca Olvera, Review, Riccardo Minasi, Salzburg, Salzburg Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Sylvain Cambreling, Tyshawn Sorey, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor
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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
Posted in Why I Left Muncie | Comments Off on Where does the Concertgebouw Stand?
Friday, September 21st, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid In Berlin, where contemporary music thrives from the Philharmonie to off spaces, it is a widespread perception that New York’s mainstream institutions are afraid to program anything past Stravinsky. A look at Alan Gilbert’s recent undertakings with the New York Philharmonic, notably in a hugely successful “360” concert of Mozart, Stockhausen, Boulez […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, avery fisher hall, Beethoven, Berlin, Boulez, Ives, Kurtag, Leif Ove Andsnes, mozart, New York, New York Philharmonic, Rebecca Schmid, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Vaslav Nijinsky
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic are on a European tour for a couple of weeks, and for a change I didn’t roll my eyes in despair when I saw the list of repertoire. His predecessors as music director, Kurt Masur and Lorin Maazel, for all their superb work at building […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Beethoven, Berg, Boulez, carnegie hall, Clark, copland, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Juilliard, Kurt Masur, leonard bernstein, Lindberg, Magnus Lindberg, Mahler, Mendelssohn, New York, New York Philharmonic, philadelphia orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
by Sedgwick Clark Lincoln Center’s attempt to add variety to Mostly Moz is just fine with me, especially if the variety is Stravinsky. Audiences seem to agree too, for a Saturday afternoon of Stravinsky films and two concerts of his chamber music by the spiffy International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) were packed. The first of the […]
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Tags: alice tully hall, anythingâ, Berio, Boulez, Charles Kuralt, choreographer pina bausch, Dumbarton, Finnissy, hungarian radio, Jeremy Denk, jessye norman, John Adams, julie taymor, lincoln center, Mark Swed, Murray Perahia, Oedipus, oedipus rex, Ozawa, sacre du printemps, Schnittke, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, théâtre des champs elysées
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