Posts Tagged ‘Valery Gergiev’
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 24, 2015 MUNICH — Fourteen months ago irate journalists confronted Valery Gergiev at a news conference here amid his preparations for a Stravinsky program with the Munich Philharmonic. The confrontation wasn’t over music, rather politics, but it did lead to questions for the orchestra’s management about his hours and pay, […]
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Tags: Commentary, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev
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Thursday, June 12th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 12, 2014 MUNICH — Lorin Maazel, 84, has quit the post of Chefdirigent of the Munich Philharmonic, according to a statement this morning by this city’s Kulturreferat, the government entity responsible for the orchestra. Reasons of health were cited. The news follows several weeks of concert cancellations by the American […]
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Tags: Christian Thielemann, Lorin Maazel, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Valery Gergiev
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 20, 2014 MUNICH — In a rambling, two-page “personal statement” to Munich Philharmonic subscribers made public today (May 20), Valery Gergiev stressed the role of music as bridge-builder and affirmed his now divisive assumption of the post of Chefdirigent of the orchestra, effective in fall 2015. The statement covers a […]
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Tags: Commentary, Glinka, Hans-Georg Küppers, Linz, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariinsky Theater, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Paul Müller, Valery Gergiev
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 9, 2014 MUNICH — Not a week goes by here now without media mention of Valery Gergiev. The musical friend of Vladimir Putin and, more to the point, high-profile employee-to-be of the City of Munich inspires comment even in modest suburban newspapers. Many want his alarmingly long contract (2015–20) shredded. […]
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Tags: Astana Opera, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Green Party, Hans-Georg Küppers, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariinsky Theater, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Paul Müller, Pink List, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Putin
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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, February 1st, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 1, 2013 MUNICH — In a statement issued today here, Lorin Maazel shed light on the brevity of his tenure as Chefdirigent of the Munich Philharmonic: “I congratulate Valery Gergiev on his appointment as principal conductor … starting the 2015–16 season. I am honored to have been serving as the […]
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Tags: Christian Thielemann, Lorin Maazel, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Valery Gergiev
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 23, 2013 MUNICH — With the city council’s blessing today of Valery Gergiev’s hire as the next Chefdirigent of the Munich Philharmonic, all three of the Bavarian capital’s globally renowned orchestras will be in Soviet-born hands by late 2015. This September, 40-year-old Kirill Petrenko of Omsk, Siberia, finally takes over […]
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Tags: Abendzeitung, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Kirill Petrenko, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Valery Gergiev
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The theme of this year’s Dresdener Musikfestspiele, “Herz Europas” (the Heart of Europe), inventively returns the East German city to its roots as a thriving cultural hub. While today’s united Germany is roiled by the end of the ‘Merkozy’ era and Eurobond controversy, the emphasis of the festival (May 15-June 3) on […]
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