Posts Tagged ‘pierre boulez’

Philharmonie de Paris, the First Year

Friday, January 15th, 2016

News from the new concert hall in Paris, the Philharmonie.  This is the press release for Yesterday’s one year anniversary: 1,203,056 people visited the Philharmonie de Paris during its first year. On 14th January 2016, one year to the day since its opening, the attendance figures confirm and highlight the success that the Philharmonie de […]

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I Love Youth Orchestras

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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Second entry from our esteemed, don’t-make-me-do-this blogger

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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