Posts Tagged ‘lincoln center’
Friday, November 12th, 2010
By James Jorden When stage directors decide to intervene (as opposed to merely curating) there are a number of approaches they can take: deconstruction, gloss on the text, invention of an entirely new narrative. Or they can take the somewhat safer route of changing the epoch of the action, setting La bohème during World War […]
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Tags: bizet, carmen, david mcvicar, elina garanca, goya, il trovatore, lincoln center, metropolitan opera, richard eyre, verdi
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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
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
My publisher made me do this. I’ve always been leery of blogs, from the disgusting sound of the word to the colossal self-importance of the act. Still, I admit to a good read and insight courtesy of bloggers Alex Ross and Alan Rich, and I’m sure I’d find others out there if I took the […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, alex ross, carnegie, Charles Rosen, Christian Tetzlaff, classical music, Elliott Carter, Franz Welser-Möst, Gustavo Dudamel, leonard bernstein, lincoln center, music director, philharmonic, sedgwick clark
Posted in Why I Left Muncie | Comments Off on A Reluctant Blogger Joins the Fray