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Contests & Awards
Avery Fisher Career Grants Announced
This year’s Avery Fisher Career Grantees, each of whom gets $25,000, include two chamber groups at opposite ends of the musical spectrum, two violinists, and a pianist. Decided upon by an A-list of mostly east-coast artistic administrators … »
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Reviews
JACK's Latest, Beautiful Trouble, Is Beautiful Trouble
Anyone expecting characteristic JACK quartet fare at the group’s concert on March 15—say, something like Helmut Lachenmann or John Luther Adams—was in for a big surprise. After the house lights went down at the Brooklyn … »
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Industry News
Can Flexibility Revive the Subscription Model?
Subscription sales by performing arts organizations had been on the skids for years before the pandemic acted as an accelerant. They are no longer a major revenue source. Gone are the days when arts groups could rely on subscriptions to … »
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People in the News
Oksana Lyniv on That War in Her Homeland
Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv could be excused were she distracted by the horrific events in her homeland while she leads performances of Puccini’s Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera this spring. After learning of a Russian missile … »
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Stage Elevator Jams; Met Mounts Turandot sans Glitter
Franco Zeffirelli's 1987 staging of Turandot is the Metropolitan Opera’s most lavish production, with an imperial throne, glittery costumes, and 199 people onstage at one time. Last night, however, it was reduced to minimum proportions, … »
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People in the News
SFS Musicians Turn to Board, Audiences to Protest Salonen's Exit
The musicians of the San Francisco Symphony have laid down a marker, telling the orchestra’s management and board of directors in no uncertain terms that they don’t want Esa-Pekka Salonen to leave. In flyers distributed to … »
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Contests & Awards
La Maestra Conducting Comp Picks Winners
The third edition of La Maestra International Conductors Competition concluded last weekend at the Philharmonie de Paris. Fourteen candidates led the Paris Mozart Orchestra before a jury overseen by Nathalie Stutzmann. Bar Avni [pictured], 34, of … »
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Industry News
Wayne Shorter's Symphonic Rep Featured on BSO Concerts
Wayne Shorter, the legendary composer and jazz saxophonist, completed his last composition—the opera ...(Iphigenia) —in 2021, reliant on a team of artists who worked with him to see the work through to its premiere in California in … »
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Toronto's Classical Music Scene Is Shifting
Toronto’s classical music world is in the midst of a generational shift. Peter Simon, president of the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) since 1991, will step aside at the end of August 2024 , and is already working with his successor, … »
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Reviews
Allan Clayton in Winterreise: Brave, Bold, and Brilliant
LONDON—When it premiered in 1994, Hans Zender’s kaleidoscopic take on Schubert’s Winterreise gave the critics major conniptions. Up to then, composers had arranged the odd song, but no one had dared to go the whole hog. Worse, … »
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