Tuesday, September 15th, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead You think you can play as well as any of those musicians on stage? As part of a celebration called “Viva l’Orchestre” you are invited by the Orchestre National de France to perform as part of an orchestra of grand amateurs on stage in Paris at the new Auditorium at Radio France, […]
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Tags: Aaron Copland, Bernard Hermann, George Gershwin, John Cage, John Williams, Orchestre National de France, Samuel Barber
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The programming of the Berlin Philharmonic, while reportedly having gravitated away from the players’ specialty in German repertoire since Sir Simon Rattle took the reins a decade ago, not only gives equal weight to post-Romantic repertoire but consistently illuminates connections between works which seem disparate at first glance. Andris Nelsons conducted the […]
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Tags: Andris Nelsons, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Benjmain Britten, Berlin Philharmonic, Christian Tetzlaff, Claude Debussy, Johann Strauß, John Williams, Jörg Widmann, la mer, La valse, Luciano Berio, Maurice Ravel, peter grimes, Rebecca Schmid, Wolfgang Rihm
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