Posts Tagged ‘leon botstein’
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Three Operas Far be it for this occasional operagoer to butt heads with Peter G. Davis in a work I barely know. “What are you doing at an Italian opera performance?” he asked me in feigned horror on opening night of the Met’s revival of Verdi’s Macbeth (3/15). “I’m here for the […]
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Tags: Carlo Bergonzi, carnegie, Diana Damrau, Franz Schmidt, leon botstein, Lori Guilbeau, Mariusz, Murray Perahia, Noseda, Paganini, Peter G. Davis, Rachel Barton Pine, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stephen Powell, Thomas Hampson, Wozzeck
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Shaham’s 1939 Dark Horse Gil Shaham had an epiphany. After years of recognition as one of the brightest young lights of the concert circuit, the Israeli-American violinist conjured one of the most imaginative programming concepts in years. He had been struck by how many violin concertos written in the 1930s had entered […]
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Tags: alex ross, alice tully hall, avery fisher hall, BBC, Beethoven, Berg, carnegie hall, chamber music, Clark, Leinsdorf, leon botstein, metropolitan opera, musical america, New York Philharmonic, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, verdi
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark In their wildest dreams, the six string quartets couldn’t have asked for more. Nor could music lovers, as the Manhattan School of Music rang in the New Year with what it called the “Inaugural Robert Mann String Quartet Institute.” Yes, this is why I left Muncie, but this time my hometown friends […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, alice tully hall, avery fisher hall, Beethoven, Berg, carnegie, carnegie hall, chamber music, colin davis, Juilliard, leon botstein, Lindberg, New York Philharmonic, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
by Sedgwick Clark Last weekend I attended the opening concerts of the Bard Music Festival. This year’s subject is “Sibelius and His World.” There were the usual fascinating works being heard for the first time in perhaps a century (and possibly never again) and some thought-provoking panel discussions as befitting the academic environs. Musically, Sibelius’s early […]
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Tags: Bard, bard music festival, Colin, colin davis, Davis, fourth symphony, leon botstein, Leon BotsteinÂ, sedgwick clark, Sibelius, symphony no 1, third symphony, Vaughan Williams
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