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WEBArticles Critic’s Choice 2024-25. Terry Riley: The Holy Liftoff. Claire Chase and Juilliard musicians. September […] Top Ten Performances of 2023
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WEBAbout. New York Classical Review was launched September 1, 2013 by Lawrence A. Johnson. Editor. Lawrence A. Johnson is the former classical music critic of the Miami Herald, and, prior to that, classical music writer at the South Florida Sun Sentinel. He was a freelance critic for the Chicago Tribune throughout the 1990s, covering classical ...
Buffalo Philharmonic celebrates the shape-shifting Lukas Foss
WEBOct 4, 2022 — One hundred years after his birth, Lukas Foss remains a moving target. That was the takeaway from Monday’s concert by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under JoAnn Falletta at Carnegie Hall, a “centennial celebration” consisting of works by the German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist who became famous at mid-century as the ultimate shape-shifter of “modern music.”
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Magnificent cast makes Met’s “Tannhäuser” a Wagner night to …
WEBOct 10, 2015 — Magnificent cast makes Met’s “Tannhäuser” a Wagner night to remember. Johan Botha and Eva-Marie Westbroek in the Metropolitan Opera production of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser.”. Photo: Marty Sohl. The Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Tannhäuser is a significant success, but a perverse one. A great opera put on stage with a combination ...
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WEBSep 22, 2024 — NOVUS Trinity Choir Paola Prestini: Silent Light (world premiere) Anthony Dean Griffey, Daniel Okulitch, Julia Mintzer, Brittany Renee Christopher Rountree, conductor 7 p.m. National Sawdust. New York Philharmonic Anthony Parnther, conductor John Williams: Jaws in Concert (score with film) 7:30 p.m. David Geffen Hall nyphil.org.
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WEBNov 1, 2021 — Met’s triumphant “Porgy and Bess” returns, deeper and even more compelling. Mon Nov 01, 2021 at 12:29 pm. By George Grella. Eric Owens and Angel Blue star in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera. If it’s possible for even the slightest bit of good to have come out of the pandemic ...
Yuja Wang rocks the moderns at Carnegie Hall - New York …
WEBWed Apr 13, 2022 at 1:52 pm. By David Wright. Yuja Wang performed music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ligeti and Kapustin Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee. 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 ...
Music, beauty and jugglers make for a memorable night in Met’s …
WEBNov 9, 2019 — 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 Glass and director Robert Wilson famously financed their own two-night production of Einstein on the Beach at the house).. This production by Phelim McDermott, originally made for the English ...
Pianist Debargue shows world-class skills in Carnegie recital
WEBNov 6, 2022 — Judging from his recital Saturday night at Carnegie Hall, Lucas Debargue is not a very accomplished pianist. He is a transcendently accomplished pianist.. So much about Debargue—the shy platform manner, the bountiful imagination, and the utter disregard for technical difficulty as he pursued his expressive goals—reminded this writer of the first time he heard Daniil Trifonov play, in a 200 ...