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Sunday, April 19th, 2015
The dance company founded by Paul Taylor in 1954 returned for their annual season (March 10-29) to the former New York State Theater, but it returned under a different name: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Company. This is significant. New to the company’s title are the words American and Modern. Taylor, now 84 years old and considered the surviving grand master of American modern dance, appears to be concerned about the health of his chosen genre. With his company’s new title comes a new mission: to present works by other choreographers, both young and old, who are perceived to be part of the American modern dance family tree.
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Tags: Cultural Revolution, Doris Humphrey, Esplanade, J.S. Bach, John Martin, new york times, Passacaglia, Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance Company, Rachel Straus, Rite if Spring, Shen Wei, Shen Wei Dance Arts
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
George Balanchine is famously credited with saying that “ballet is woman.” This idea is boldly apparent in his Kammermusik No. 2, which premiered on New York City Ballet in January 1978, and more recently was performed by the company as part of their 2014 winter season.
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Tags: " Rebecca Krohn, "ballet is woman, Abi Stafford, Alastair MacAulay, Alexandra Hutt, Amar Ramasar, George Balanchine, Jared Angle, Kammermusik No. 2, New York City Ballet, new york times, The Juilliard School
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Friday, September 7th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Reconnecting the spiritual with classical music might seem a controversial issue in an era of cultural pluralism, yet the hunger to unearth the spiritual has seeped into some of Europe´s leading festivals. As Jim Oestreich reported earlier this season in The New York Times, a wave of religiosity has spread from Lincoln […]
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Tags: Andris Nelsons, Arnold Schönberg, Baiba Skride, City of Birmingham Orchestra, Edgar Varese, Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinksy, Jim Oestreich, Lucerne Festival, Lucy Crowe, Mariss Jansons, Michael Haeflinger, new york times, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Samuel Barber, Sergei Leiferkus, Simon Halsey, Sofia Gubaidulina
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
By James Jorden Revelation comes in the strangest places. Like, for example, I had this eventual moment of clarity about what it was that went wrong in the Lepage Ring, and what do you think sparked it? Of all things, last night’s performance of Ernani at the Met.
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Tags: Anthony Tommasini, Beethoven, Deborah Voigt, james jorden, musicalamerica, new york times, otto schenk, robert lepage, the machine, wagner
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark I first met Omus Hirshbein in Carnegie Hall’s executive offices, where he worked for a brief time in 1973 between tenures at the Hunter College Concert Bureau and the 92nd Street Y. He was walking out of a planning meeting, saying in frustration to anyone nearby, “They won’t listen to me—they should […]
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Tags: Aaron Kernis, Alicia de Larrocha, Allan Kozinn, Berg, Brian Kellow, carnegie hall, Christopher Hunt, Clark, classical music, Deborah Borda, Festival, Jane Moss, Juilliard, Kirk Varnedoe, lincoln center, Mary Lou Falcone, mozart, musical america, New York, new york times, orchestra, performer, Schmidt, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, symphony, Town Hall
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
by James Jorden “I’ve almost come to the conclusion that this Mr. Hitler isn’t a Christian,” muses merry murderess Abby Brewster early in the first act of Arsenic and Old Lace, and to tell the truth I’m beginning to think I’m almost as far behind the curve as she was. Recent new productions at the […]
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Tags: anna netrebko, james jorden, leonard bernstein, Mahler, music director, musicalamerica, new york times, period costume, peter gelb, pr, richard wagner, robert lepage, Street Car Named Desire, the met, verdi, willy decker, Zurich
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
By James Jorden What makes a dedicated opera queen (well, anyway this dedicated opera queen) sad? Well, it goes like this: the General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera hosts a panel discussion to introduce the company’s upcoming new production of La traviata, the first non-Franco Zeffirelli take on Verdi’s tragedy to be seen there in […]
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Tags: franco zeffirelli, la boheme, marina poplavskaya, martha stewart, new york times, otto schenk, peter gelb, pundits, regie, the met
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