Posts Tagged ‘carnegie hall’
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. A few nights ago, I attended a musical evening of sorts—not at Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center but at Carolines Comedy Club in New York City. Intrigued by the advertisements I heard on radio station WQXR for its Classical Comedy Contest, I bought two tickets, […]
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Tags: askedna, carnegie hall, Deborah Voigt, Edna Landau, lincoln center, musicalamerica, Perlman, Zankel
Posted in Ask Edna, Communicating with Your Audience | Comments Off on Do We Take Ourselves Too Seriously?
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
By James Jorden The Metropolitan Opera debut of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, an amazing 180 years into the work’s history, won mostly respectful reviews last week—in between snipes at Anna Netrebko’s momentary breaking of character during the “Tower Scene.” A common thread in both published and popular opinion, though, was that the piece itself was not […]
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Tags: anna netrebko, atys, black and white, Black Swan, carnegie hall, david mcvicar, donizetti, franco zeffirelli, glamour, john dexter, josef svoboda, joseph volpe, la traviata, lincoln center, live performance, metropolitan opera, new york observer, period costume, regie, repertoire
Posted in Rough and Regie | Comments Off on The Unglamorous Life
Friday, July 15th, 2011
by Sedgwick Clark It seems odd that Carnegie Hall’s 2010-11 season concluded in mid May and that the New York Philharmonic continued into the last week of June, with the final concert of its Summertime Classics coda at the end of last week. It also seems to me that the official seasons in both halls concluded in […]
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Tags: albany symphony, appalachian spring, carnegie hall, copland, dallas symphony, david alan miller, gene scheer, jaap van zweden, New York Philharmonic, spirituals, steven stucky
Posted in Why I Left Muncie | Comments Off on Taking Chances in the Spring
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Why I Left Muncie. Half a dozen things to do every night without turning on a TV; Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall a stone’s throw from home; the Sunday Times on Saturday night; MoMA and the Met; theater and film; in the good old days, record stores. This title is kind of unfair to my […]
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Tags: alice tully hall, avery fisher hall, carnegie hall, celesta, george szell, jack gottlieb, karita mattila, leonard bernstein, lincoln center, pierre boulez, sedgwick clark, tommasini, tone music, tone rows, vienna school
Posted in Why I Left Muncie | Comments Off on Second entry from our esteemed, don’t-make-me-do-this blogger