Posts Tagged ‘Stravinsky’
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, 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
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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 12th, 2011
by Sedgwick Clark Lincoln Center’s attempt to add variety to Mostly Moz is just fine with me, especially if the variety is Stravinsky. Audiences seem to agree too, for a Saturday afternoon of Stravinsky films and two concerts of his chamber music by the spiffy International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) were packed. The first of the […]
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Tags: alice tully hall, anythingâ, Berio, Boulez, Charles Kuralt, choreographer pina bausch, Dumbarton, Finnissy, hungarian radio, Jeremy Denk, jessye norman, John Adams, julie taymor, lincoln center, Mark Swed, Murray Perahia, Oedipus, oedipus rex, Ozawa, sacre du printemps, Schnittke, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, théâtre des champs elysées
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
by Sedgwick Clark We’ve been in the thrall of “perfect” playing for so long that sometimes it takes a less than precise ensemble to remind us of genuine character. The Royal Danish Orchestra, under its music director Michael Schønwandt, had it in spades last week in its delightful program of native son Carl Nielsen’s strange […]
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Tags: alice tully hall, carl nielsen, Emil Telmányi, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Schønwandt, Midnight in Paris, Nila Parly, Pulcinella, royal danish orchestra, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, symphonic poem, syrinx, Tobias Durholm, Woody Allen
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