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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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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 ...
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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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“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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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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Boulder orchestra’s Beethoven sends Zankel audience out on a Rocky Mountain high - New York Classical Review
One Response to “Boulder orchestra’s Beethoven sends Zankel audience out on a Rocky Mountain high” Posted Jun 07, 2025 at 8:20 am by Linda Kig I am so proud of you all. It takes dedication and ...
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Met’s “Tales of Hoffmann” offers dark Romanticism and a feast of female voices - New York Classical Review
The undertone of Gothic horror in Act I bloomed forth in Act II, as the failing heroine Antonia, overprotected by her father Crespel and manipulated by the cunning fraud Doctor Miracle, was forbidden ...
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“Fedora” returns to Met after 25 years in a sumptuous, richly sung production - New York Classical Review
Fedora returned to the Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s Eve after 25 years. A glamorous diva with a sumptuous voice and a dashing romantic tenor is what it takes to make Giordano’s melody-strewn ...
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Debutant Lintu leads Philharmonic in rare Bartók, flowing Sibelius - New York Classical Review
As an unusual mid-November warm spell ended in New York, a boreal chill settled over David Geffen Hall Wednesday night. For his debut with the New York Philharmonic, Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu ...
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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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Rust Belt bel canto: Met provides a dark, mostly compelling update to “Lucia” - New York Classical Review
Cheers greeted Simon Stone and his creative team Saturday night as they walked onstage to take bows after the debut performance of his updated staging of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera.