Posts Tagged ‘Stravinsky’
Friday, January 12th, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 12, 2018 MUNICH — Against the medical odds, perhaps, Mariss Jansons turns seventy-five on Sunday, still adored by his favorite orchestra. Bavarian Broadcasting marks the occasion with a 44-minute video portrait, Im Zeichen der Musik, or In the Music’s Character, freely watchable. Last evening here at the Gasteig, a subscription […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Beethoven, BR, BR Chor, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Gasteig, Genia Kühmeier, Gerhild Romberger, Howard Arman, Hummel, Kritik, Luca Pisaroni, Mariss Jansons, Martin Angerer, Maximilian Schmitt, München, Munich, Review, Stravinsky, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphony in Three Movements
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 16, 2015 MUNICH — Ivo Pogorelich wants to continue to play. He has recital programs planned out till 2020. He keeps several concertos in his repertory, the Chopin F-Minor and Prokofiev Third performed here persuasively in recent seasons. He is “pleased,” he writes, about a new box of his old […]
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Tags: Bell’Arte, Brahms, Dante Sonata, Ivo Pogorelich, Liszt, München, Munich, Paganini Variations, Piano, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Schumann, Stravinsky, Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka
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Monday, April 28th, 2014
Toward the end of LeeSaar’s Princess Crocodile, seven bare legged female dancers line up, open their red-painted mouths, and— like it’s the most mundane thing in the world—wildly wag their tongues at the audience. This culminating act lasts a good minute. It felt oddly fitting, and it became the theatrical highlight of the newest work by the husband-wife team Saar Harari and Lee Sher, seen April 10 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Howard Gilman Performance Space.
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Tags: Animal HousGood Times, Apollo, Avi Yono Bueon, Balanchine, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Candice Schnurr, Gaga, Howard Gilman Performance Space, Hyerin Lee, Leda, Lee Sher, LeeSaar, Ohad Naharin, Princess Crocodile, Rachel Straus, Saar Harari, Stravinsky, Symphony No. 5 Mahler
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 1, 2014 MUNICH — In every book on time management, there is a chapter about giving your work to someone else. Delegation, they say, is a virtue: an assistant exercises new authority and the delegator accomplishes other tasks, perhaps in other places. Maybe in another country. Or two. Take Valery […]
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Tags: A kékszakállú herceg vára, Alexei Tanovitski, Bassem Akiki, Béla Bartók, Commentary, Gidon Saks, Iolanta, Mariinsky Theater, Mariusz Treliński, Mikolaj Zalasiński, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Nadja Michael, Polish National Opera, Sergei Skorokhodov, St Petersburg, Stravinsky, Tatiana Monogarova, Tchaikovsky, Teatr Wielki, Valery Gergiev, Warsaw
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Thursday, March 27th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 27, 2014 MUNICH — In eight days in May 2004, as a kind of audition for the post of principal conductor, Valery Gergiev drove the London Symphony Orchestra brilliantly, if roughly, through recorded concerts of all of Prokofiev’s symphonies. Acclaim ensued, he got the job, and two years later the […]
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Tags: Alexander Timchenko, Andrius Zlabys, Dmitri Levkovich, Gasteig, Ilya Bannik, Irina Vasilieva, Le roi des étoiles, Les noces, London Symphony Orchestra, L’oiseau de feu, Marina Radiushina, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Olga Savova, Philips, Prokofiev, Review, Sergei Babayan, Stravinsky, Symphonies d’instruments à vent, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Putin
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Thursday, March 7th, 2013
by Sedgwick Clark NOTE: MY BLOG IS NOW POSTED ON THURSDAYS AT NOON RATHER THAN WEDNESDAYS. Why? The kids aren’t jaded. No repertoire is too daunting. Their enthusiasm nearly always makes up for any momentary technical shortcoming. One skips concerts at Juilliard at his or her peril and often encounters first-rate conductors that the Philharmonic has neglected. […]
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Tags: carnegie hall, Clark, kennedy center, Mahler, pierre boulez, sedgwick clark, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Valery Gergiev
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The eclectic musical life of the brief but thriving ‘Roaring twenties’ continues to inspire a nostalgia that is all the more understandable given contemporary classical music’s reorientation toward popular idioms from techno to rock. The latest album of French pianist Alexandre Tharaud, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, sets out to recreate the […]
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Tags: Alexandre Tharaud, Bénabar, Chanel, Clément Doucet, Cole Porter, Darius Milhaud, David Chevallier, EMI, Florent Jodelet, Frank Braley, George Gershwin, Guillaume Gallienne, Jean Cocteau, Jean Delescluse, Jean Wiéner, Juliette, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Les Six, Madeleine Peyroux, Maurice Chevalier, Nathalie Dessay, Picasso, Pleyel, Rebecca Schmid, Stravinsky, Virgin Classics, William Christopher Handy
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Friday, September 21st, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid In Berlin, where contemporary music thrives from the Philharmonie to off spaces, it is a widespread perception that New York’s mainstream institutions are afraid to program anything past Stravinsky. A look at Alan Gilbert’s recent undertakings with the New York Philharmonic, notably in a hugely successful “360” concert of Mozart, Stockhausen, Boulez […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, avery fisher hall, Beethoven, Berlin, Boulez, Ives, Kurtag, Leif Ove Andsnes, mozart, New York, New York Philharmonic, Rebecca Schmid, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Vaslav Nijinsky
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Friday, June 22nd, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Conducting the Berlin Philharmonic is no small feat for a 37-year-old, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin—returning to the orchestra’s podium for the first time since his 2010 debut—had no intention to the make the event a small affair. The newly minted music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, seen at the Philharmonie on June 16, […]
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Tags: Apollon Musagète, Berio, Berlin Philharmonic, Cathy Berberian, Daphnis et Chloé, Debussy, Diaghilev, Guy Braunstein, Michael Fokine, Nizhinsky, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, philadelphia orchestra, Ravel, Romeo and Juliet, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Walter Seyfarth, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark That’s a traditional reader complaint. But it happens to critics too. Russian violinist Vadim Repin and Lithuanian pianist Itamar Golan have solid careers, and their program last Saturday evening (3/17) in Alice Tully Hall was an enticing selection of works by Janáček, Ravel, Grieg, and Chausson. From mid-parquet I found Repin’s sound […]
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Tags: Bates, Cowell, David Del Tredici, David Oistrakh, Gil Shaham, Jeff Spurgeon, Lou Harrison, Lukas Foss, Michael Tilson, Morton Subotnick, Murray Perahia, nyphil, Rachel Barton Pine, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky
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