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The composer’s work, featured at a recent festival in Germany, includes a howling denunciation of war crimes against children.
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At the Met, Michael Spyres uses his broad vocal range to stunning effect, but Lise Davidsen loses power when she leaves her brilliant upper register.
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Both composers remain intriguing outliers, notable for the stubbornness with which they have held to their youthful convictions.
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The late German conductor, who came from a heroic anti-Nazi family, made one believe in the inherent virtue of the core repertory.
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Gustavo Dudamel conducts John Corigliano's blistering First Symphony; Chuck Schumer faces a hostile crowd at the opening night of "Kavalier & Clay."
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The critic's profession may be destined to fade away, but others will have to take up this simple, irritating, somehow necessary job.
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The Metropolitan Opera last named a new music director in May of 1975. Gerald Ford had been President for less than a year; Saigon had fallen a few weeks earlier; Barack Obama was thirteen. …
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No one who follows classical music can have been remotely surprised by the announcement that came in from the Metropolitan Opera earlier today: James Levine, who has been the dominant artist…
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Last year, the British critic Philip Clark had a provocative response to the perennial question of how to save classical music from its so-called image problem"the perception that it is stuf…
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Jonah Levy, a thirty-year-old trumpet player based in Los Angeles, has lately developed a curious weekend routine. On Saturday and Sunday mornings, he puts on a white shirt, a black tie, bla…
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In the prologue to "Pagliacci," Ruggiero Leoncavallo's nimble shocker of 1892, the singer who is about to play the hunchbacked clown Tonio delivers a sly apologia for the mayhem to come. The…
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Andrew Porter, who wrote the Musical Events column for The New Yorker from 1972 to 1992, was not one to throw around superlatives carelessly, but on the occasion of his death"he passed away …
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A few years ago, I heard a film composer tell of a director's reaction to his labors: "O.K., now make it twenty per cent more Cuban." Such is the humble lot of composers in Hollywood: they e…
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The mission of the New York Philharmonic Biennial, whose inaugural edition overran several of the city’s concert halls in the last days of May and the first week of June, is a brave an…
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The master percussionist Steven Schick, who will present a two-night, one-man survey of his repertory this week at Miller Theatre, grew up on a farm near Clear Lake, Iowa. His earliest music…
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Lotte Lenya never forgot the moment when she felt the musical world shift. It was in the rarefied setting of the German Chamber Music Festival, in Baden-Baden in 1927. “Mahagonny Songs…
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An opera about the strange life and sad death of Anna Nicole Smith, the Playboy model turned reality-TV star, sounds like an expensive joke. Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Anna Nicole,…
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In 1896, a thirty-six-year-old opera singer named Luranah Aldridge travelled to Germany to prepare for performances of Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung,” at the Bayreuth Fest…
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