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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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North American sounds reverberate in Met Orchestra’s season closer
At first glance, the program might be described as “contemporary conventional,” with its generous helpings of lauded present-day composers (Gabriela Ortiz and Terence Blanchard), a nod to a recent ...
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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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Tesori’s “Grounded” scores a dark triumph in Met season opener
“If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season Monday night, “it would ...
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In Met debut Blanchard’s “Champion” proves lightweight in its class
Champion, the first opera by Terence Blanchard, composer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, made its eagerly anticipated Metropolitan Opera debut Monday night to warm applause. In the end, however, the ...
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An evening of color, brilliance and virtuosity from Teatro Real at Carnegie - New York Classical Review
Concerts by the Orchestra of Madrid’s Teatro Real are becoming regular events in New York. The orchestra’s appearance on Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall marked its third performance here since 2022.
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Met’s new “Salome” mixes dark backstory with vocal, orchestral bravura
Strauss’s Salome returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening in a new production by Claus Guth. It is Guth’s first assignment at the Met, coming rather late in the 61-year-old German opera ...
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Music, beauty and jugglers make for a memorable night in Met’s “Akhnaten” - New York Classical Review
Akhnaten, the last opera in Philip Glass’s trilogy of science, politics, and religion, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night. (The Met presented Satyagraha in 2011, and back in 1976 ...
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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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Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra” serves up banal bread and circuses in Met debut - New York Classical Review
There is a divide in John Adams’ opera career that’s not marked by any change in compositional style but by the departure of librettist Alice Goodman for the Anglican priesthood. Adams’ first two ...
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Mäkelä, Orchestre de Paris conjure a spectacular “Firebird,” visceral “Rite” - New York Classical Review
One Response to “Mäkelä, Orchestre de Paris conjure a spectacular “Firebird,” visceral “Rite”” Posted Mar 17, 2024 at 1:32 pm by John kelly I completely agree with every word of this well-written ...
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Reich premiere spotlights fervent pulse of strong Philharmonic program - New York Classical Review
One Response to “Reich premiere spotlights fervent pulse of strong Philharmonic program” Posted Oct 09, 2023 at 1:11 pm by PK I want to thank Mr. Grella for his thoughtful and insightful review. I too ...