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WEBLate summer on the New York City classical music scene often means pianist Taka Kigawa will be exploring some of the most complex, nuanced, and challenging corners of the modernist piano repertoire in the Greenwich Village basement nightclub (le) poisson rouge.
Chen leads NYO2 with rousing energy at Carnegie Hall
WEBAug 2, 2022 · The concert by NYO2 Monday night at Carnegie Hall brought to a close the 2022 edition of Carnegie’s summer orchestral training program. Made up of young musicians from across the USA aged 14-17, NYO2 was finally back performing live before an audience, this time with Mei-Ann Chen conducting.
Borodin’s original “Prince Igor” shines, dark yet brilliant, at the Met
WEBFeb 7, 2014 · It has been nearly a century since Borodin’s Prince Igor was last heard at the Metropolitan Opera.The overture may have to wait another hundred years. The new edition of Prince Igor by director Dmitri Tcherniakov and conductor Gianadrea Noseda, which premiered Thursday night at the Met, is a revelation. The two men have stripped away the additions of Aleksandr Glazunov and Nikolai Rimsky ...
Emotion of the Sixties recollected in tranquility by Kronos Quartet
WEBJan 20, 2018 · The Kronos Quartet obliged Friday night in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall with passionate echoes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Everly Brothers. But the prevailing mood of the evening, and of the two new works that received their world premieres, was surprisingly calm and reflective. The performance was …
Fujita brings light touch to Liszt, Brahms, and the Schumanns in ...
WEBJan 26, 2023 · At times during the 24-year-old, Tokyo-born pianist’s debut at Carnegie Hall Wednesday night, one wished those shapes had a few more bones in them. But for the most part, Fujita’s loving molding of music by Mozart, Liszt, Brahms and the two Schumanns was a sonic delight. All evening, the pianist …
“The Hours” builds a moving, spellbinding drama in Met premiere
WEBNov 23, 2022 · The Hours, which began as an award-winning, best-selling novel, and was then made into a popular film, is now an opera.Commissioned from composer Kevin Puts by the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Hours had its world premiere Tuesday night at the Met.Explicitly based on both the book and the film, this is not just an extended cultural franchise but a spellbinding score ...
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WEBAug 21, 2024 · Music inspired by visual art from Libby Larsen, Nathaniel Stookey, James Stephenson, Trevor Weston, Shinji Eshima, Jose Gonzalez Granero, Cindy Cox, Edmund Campion, Linda Marcel, David Mecionis, Catherine Neville Peter Josheff, Maija Hynninen, Evan Price, Jacques Desjardins, Jessica Mays, Michael Panther and Dan Flanagan.
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WEBWed Dec 10, 2014 at 12:15 pm. By Eric C. Simpson. Daniil Trifonov performed a recital Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Dario Acosta. It should come as no surprise that Carnegie Hall was packed on Tuesday for Daniil Trifonov’s solo recital. Just twenty-three years old, the Russian pianist already commands as much star appeal as anyone on ...
Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth” a searing experience in Met revival
WEBSep 30, 2022 · The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-2023 season, which opened this week, got a significant boost Thursday night with the revival of a veteran production and two house debuts that came together in a riveting performance of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.. This was only the Met’s 22nd performance, ever, of this great opera by arguably the most significant composer of the 20th century.
Peretyatko makes spectacular Met debut in “Puritani”
WEBApr 18, 2014 · Peretyatko makes spectacular Met debut in “Puritani”. Olga Peretyatko is Elvira in the Metropolitan Opera production of Bellini’s “I Puritani.”. Photo: Ken Howard. The last woman to sing Elvira in Bellini’s I Puritani at the Met was Anna Netrebko in 2007. On Thursday, in the hands of another Russian soprano, a true coloratura, the ...