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Terry Riley’s 90th birthday is marked in Brooklyn with classic and modern works
Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...
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Wang triumphs in all-Rachmaninoff, all-at-once Carnegie marathon
Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...
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“The Hours” builds a moving, spellbinding drama in Met premiere
The Hours, which began as an award-winning, best-selling novel, and was then made into a popular film, is now an opera. Commissioned from composer Kevin Puts by the Metropolitan Opera and the ...
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Yuja Wang rocks the moderns at Carnegie Hall
It’s not every pianist who can sell out Carnegie Hall without divulging what she’s going to play, as Yuja Wang did Tuesday night. The capacity audience came prepared to gasp at her scintillating ...
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After 55 years, Mostly Mozart Festival ends on a note of strength and defiance - New York Classical Review
Two eras are coming to an end this weekend in David Geffen Hall: 50-plus years of Mostly Mozart (the festival began under a different name in 1966), and the 25-year tenure of conductor Louis Langrée ...
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“Dead Man Walking” powerfully opens Met season, video excess apart - New York Classical Review
It was a long trek, but Dead Man Walking finally made it the last mile to the Metropolitan Opera Tuesday night. The death-row drama by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally has attained ...
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With a new and lively cast, Met’s “Figaro” is even more delightful the second time around - New York Classical Review
Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro is back for a second time this season at the Metropolitan Opera and better than ever. The Met mounted an excellent cast for the January run, but this one, headed by ...
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Creative staging makes for fresh Mozart, Bartók with Fischer and Philharmonic - New York Classical Review
One Response to “Creative staging makes for fresh Mozart, Bartók with Fischer and Philharmonic” Posted Apr 27, 2025 at 8:18 am by DorothyT A woodwind musician RAVED about the new staging after last ...
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“Lucidity” premiere offers worthy music and baffling staging at On Site Opera - New York Classical Review
On Site Opera gave the world premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s Lucidity on Thursday evening at the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It’s a hot ticket with all three remaining New York ...
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Violinist Avsharian’s unique concert mixes music with brainwave education
At first glimpse, violinist Chenyi Avsharian’s program for her recital at Zankel Hall on Saturday evening, entitled “Boundless Horizon,” didn’t overly impress. It was comprised mostly of warhorses of ...
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Slow to get under sail, “Moby-Dick” builds to powerful impact in Met debut - New York Classical Review
Act I was lukewarm, and a lot of that had to do with the singing and orchestral playing. Queequeg and Greenhorn are the first characters to sing, and Green and Costello were subdued in the opening ...
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When violinists compose: Botstein, The Orchestra Now serve up an intriguing if uneven sampler - New York Classical Review
Legendary pianists could be pretty good composers, too. Perhaps you’ve heard of Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff… But what about violinists? Conductor and musical archaeologist Leon Botstein ...