Posts Tagged ‘leonard bernstein’
Friday, September 25th, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead Here is the story: a young black conductor from Charleston, South Carolina just triumphed over 237 other candidates to win victory in one of the top conducting competitions in the world. This was on Sunday, September 20 at the competition in Besançon, France. He was just 23, seven to ten years younger […]
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Tags: Alexander Gibson, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Erina Yashima, Esa-Pekka Salonen, George Pehlivaia, Gerd Albrecht, Gustavo Dudamel, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Jiri Kout, Jonathon Heyward, Kazuki Yamada, leonard bernstein, Lionel Bringuier, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lu Shao-Chia, Michel Plasson, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan.Marco Parisotto, Ontario Philharmonic, Ricardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Sergiu Comissiona, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Yutaka Sado
Posted in An American in Paris | Comments Off on J’accuse! A failure of American Musical Journalism.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid Richard Strauss was a man of many masks, from his intimate piano songs to the demonic outpourings of his stage works and tone poems. Following a semi-staging of his second opera, Feuersnot, in Dresden, where it premiered in 1901, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig came to the Saxon capital on June 9 to stake […]
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Tags: Alter Schlachthof, Cameron Carpenter, Dresden, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, J.S. Bach, leonard bernstein, Riccardo Chailly, Richard Strauss, Semperoper, touring organ
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Strauss and a Touring Organ at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele
Friday, September 14th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Blame it on Cage. Or the Marshall Plan. It is impossible to escape the American canon as the season opens here with the Musikfest Berlin (August 31-September 18), an annual festival dedicated to 20th-century music. The event falls just as Europe’s major festivals are drawing to a close and often struggles for […]
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Tags: Berlin Philharmonic, Charles Ives, Daniel Stabwara, Emilio Pomarico, Franz Schubert, Ingo Metzmacher, Isabelle Faust, John Adams, John Cage, Konzerthausorchester, leonard bernstein, Morton Feldman, Musikfest Berlin
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Musikfest Berlin salutes the Stars and Stripes
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. It has been pointed out to me that in my column last week, I inadvertently misspelled the name of the author of an article entitled “Being a Professional Chorister” which appeared on Laura Claycomb’s website. His correct name is Martin L. Poock. My apologies to […]
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Tags: askedna, career, classical music, Edna Landau, leonard bernstein, musicalamerica, Perlman, young artist
Posted in Ask Edna, Listening to Your Inner Voice | Comments Off on Finding Your Unique Path to Success
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic are on a European tour for a couple of weeks, and for a change I didn’t roll my eyes in despair when I saw the list of repertoire. His predecessors as music director, Kurt Masur and Lorin Maazel, for all their superb work at building […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Beethoven, Berg, Boulez, carnegie hall, Clark, copland, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Juilliard, Kurt Masur, leonard bernstein, Lindberg, Magnus Lindberg, Mahler, Mendelssohn, New York, New York Philharmonic, philadelphia orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky
Posted in Why I Left Muncie | Comments Off on A Genuine Jolt at the NY Phil
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
Posted in Rough and Regie | Comments Off on Peter’s Principles
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
By James Jorden The New York City Opera’s production of the Bernstein/Wadsworth A Quiet Place won what are called “mixed” reviews. A few critics hosannaed “Thanks be to Great God Lenny for smooching us once more with his plump, moist genius,” but the majority echoed Cecil B. DeMille’s tactful reaction to Norma Desmond’s bizarre comeback […]
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Tags: alden, cecil b demille, financial times, glimmerglass, leonard bernstein, new york city opera, new york observer, norma desmond, quiet place, realism, regie, stephen wadsworth
Posted in Rough and Regie | Comments Off on The One-Eyed Man
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