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• Music Review | Cameron Carpenter: A Showman of the Organ Pulls Back the Curtain

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Cameron Carpenter brings flamboyance and unorthodox style to the organ at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Midtown.
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• Music Review | Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Trio Mediaeval: The John Henry Who Might Have Been

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  The Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Trio Mediaeval performed Julia Wolfe’s “Steel Hammer.”
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• Music review: Terry Riley launches West Coast, Left Coast Festival

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  “IF THERE IS NO SEDUCTION, THERE IS NO MUSIC.” The capitalized sentiment leapt off the page in Terry Riley’s program note for “Eureka!” the late-night opening event for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s West Coast, Left Coast festival Saturday night. And thus -- after more than two hours of regimented ...
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• Music review: Shanghai Symphony in Santa Barbara

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  In the field where Chinese composers and performers and Western classical music converge, East has been successfully meeting West long enough that the concept is closer to a norm -- or at least accepted cultural fact -- than a novelty. What remains rare, though, are local live concert encounters with Chinese ensembles ...
  13 hours ago

• Video: Introducing the fluid piano

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Mark Brown talks to Geoff Smith, whose reinvention of the piano allows players to alter the tuning of notes either before or during a performance Mark Brown David Levene Christian Bennett
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• Fine-tuning: composer reinvents the piano

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Fluid instrument allows pianists to alter sound before or while they play For a non-pianist, the idea of a microtonally fluid piano might seem either no big deal or baffling. But this weekend a composer will reveal the result of a 10-year mission – nothing less than the reinvention of one of the most important ...
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• Elision/Barrett | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Bates Mill, Huddersfield Richard Barretts Opening of the Mouth was given its UK premiere at Bates Mill by the Australian ensemble Elision. This 75-minute sequence of overlapping movements is built around a series of poems by Paul Celan, set for soprano and mezzo, and intercut with electronic interludes and ...
  15 hours ago

• Ratcliffs Uncommon "Ode to Common Things" Superb Marriage of Words and Music!

  
  La Scena Musicale — Authority: 420
  by Paul E. Robinson Classical Travels This Week in Texas Like many institutions in the state of Texas, the Austin Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is more than a little to the right of center - it takes few risks in matters of programming; nonetheless, music director Peter Bay keeps finding ways ...
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• Hilliard Ensemble/Arditti Quartet | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  St Pauls Hall, Huddersfield After a couple of years when Britains leading new-music festival seemed to be losing its way in a welter of improvisation, installations and electro-acoustic environments, its more like business as usual in Huddersfield this November. Premieres abound, and the roster of visiting ensembles ...
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• Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Sage, Gateshead Elliott Carter, who will be 101 next month, is the giant redwood of American composers; a force of nature who keeps acquiring annual rings and seems capable of going on forever. Carter has said that his harmonically restless, rhythmically complex compositions require at least 10 years for musicians ...
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• The Tsarinas Slippers | Opera review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Royal Opera House, London Composers attitudes to their own works are often curious. Tchaikovsky believed The Tsarinas Slippers (Cherevichki in Russian; more correctly "little boots" in English) was his finest opera. Posterity has questioned his judgment and will probably continue to do so in the wake of this ...
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• Review: Mozart/Dutilleux program showcases a symphony on the upswing

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 809
  Two pieces in the concerto grosso format display the skills of recent hires under music director Carlos Kalmar.
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• A tame ‘Tamerlano’ at L.A. Opera

  
  The Arts Blog — Authority: 134
  CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW SLIDE SHOW REVIEW: Placido Domingo takes on the tenor role in Handel’s showpiece. The Orange County Register , Nov. 22, 2009. SEE SLIDE SHOW One’s heart sinks a little when the curtain is raised on Los Angeles Opera’s production of Handel’s “Tamerlano,” which opened Saturday ...
  17 hours ago

• The Magic Pen: Mozart Operas Up Close

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  A posthumous portrait of Mozart from 1819.
  23 hours ago

• Classical Musicians in Times Square, NYC

  
  Harlem Tee Shirts — Authority: 138
  On the way down from the Bronx to Times Square Station, me and my group saw young classical musicians playing under the banner of "Music Under New York" (MUNY). They played a great Mozarts "A Little Night Music" and a Pachabels Canon. It was a boy and girl on the violin, a girl on the viola, and a girl n the cello. ...
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• Elisabeth Soderstrom, Revered Swedish Soprano, Dies at 82

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Elisabeth Soderstrom as Madame Butterfly in 1953.
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• Valentin Silvestrov: Sacred Works | CD review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov (b1937) has described music as "the world singing of itself". Appropriately, these a cappella sacred songs recorded in the Cathedral of the Dormition, Kiev, have a self-contained beauty, politically out of fashion in the Soviet era but now finding free expression among "holy ...
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• The Essential Itzhak Perlman | CD review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The warm, golden tone of Itzhak Perlmans violin has been playing a soundtrack in the subconscious of music lovers for more than 40 years now, thanks to a huge catalogue of recording that has captured his virtuosity across a vast repertoire, from concertos to chamber music, jazz, Klezmer and ragtime. This collection ...
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• Gershwin: Porgy and Bess | CD review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  That tireless pioneer Nikolaus Harnoncourt chose to celebrate his 80th birthday right outside his comfort zone of the baroque with this revival of Gershwins opera. His mission is to persuade us that this is indeed an opera rather than a musical, with big voices and superbly pungent, edgy orchestral playing from the ...
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• Between Two Worlds Festival and Rumpelstiltskin | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Royal Festival Hall, London CBSO Centre, Birmingham Mind-blowing is one of those expressions best allowed out every five years at most. This quinquennial airing greets the UK premiere of Alfred Schnittkes extraordinary The History of D Johann Faustus , part of the London Philharmonic Orchestras Between Two Worlds ...
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