Posts Tagged ‘Lindberg’
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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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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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
By Alan Gilbert I have been thinking generally about how orchestras define themselves and, specifically, about what the New York Philharmonic means to the public we serve. Last week’s Philharmonic production of The Cunning Little Vixen was a joy to work on, and I am hugely proud of what we achieved as an institution. For […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Janacek, Kraft, Ligeti, Lindberg, Macabre, mozart, New York Philharmonic, Vixen
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