Music
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Cantilena Chamber Choir & Berkshire Lyric Theater
Russian Choral Music May 15 & 16
By: - Apr 26th, 2010The Cantilena Chamber Choir and Berkshire Lyric Theater will present a Russian Choral Music Weekend of concerts and lectures on May 15 and 16. Special guest performers will be New York City Opera tenor Konstantin Stepanov and, from St. Petersburg, Russia, The Konevets Quartet with Igor Dmitriev, Director.
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The Breeze and I - Champian Fulton
A Gut String Records CD
By: - Apr 24th, 2010Champian Fulton once again gives satisfaction with a collection of classics made new again. As is the custom of other recordings released by Gut String Records "The Breeze and I" was recorded live, the musicians playing together and listening to the mix without headphones
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Met's Armida by Rossini Live in HD May 1
Renee Fleming as the Wicked Sorceress
By: - Apr 22nd, 2010Torquato Tasso wrote "Jerusalem Delivered" in the16th century and it has been used as the jumping board for more art than any other underlying property in history--except the Bible. It took 193 years for Armida, Rossini's take on the poem, to arrive at the Met. The opera will be broadcast Live in HD on May 1 in a movie theater near you.
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Janis Ian and Karla Bonoff At the Colonial
Reconnecting with Society's Child
By: - Apr 19th, 2010Few in the audience were ineligible for Social Security. Enthusiasm belied their age as the singer/ songwriters, Janis Ian and Karla Bonoff, ignited a trove of treasured memories.
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Randy Weston at Berkshire Museum May 29
Pittsfield CityJazz Festival October 8-21
By: - Apr 16th, 2010Jazz pianist Randy Weston has Berkshire roots. He started as a dishwasher at the legendary Music Inn where owner Stephanie Barber discovered him, Weston will perform at the Berkshire Museum on May 29. Ed Bride, the founder of Berkshires Jazz also announces highlights of the annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival October 8-21.
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Carolina Chocolate Drops at Mass MoCA
Performing on May 29
By: - Apr 16th, 2010This Carolina Chocolate Drops, comprising Robinson plus banjo-player Rhiannon Giddens and multi-tasker Dom Flemons, bring their toe-tapping versions of traditional tunes to North Adams for a memorable Memorial Day weekend concert on Saturday, May 29, at 8 PM with opener The Duke & The King. NPR's Weekend Edition calls the Carolina Chocolate Drops "the hottest thing to hit the old-time music community in decades."
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Handel at the New York City Opera
Iestyn Davies Is a New Sensino
By: - Apr 14th, 2010When Handel was in Rome,the Pope banned opera. After countless performances in 18th century England, Handel operas were as dead as the opera seria form in which he wrote. The New York City Opera helped revive not only Handel, but the hot show biz style he mounted.
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BSO's 2010-2011 Season
James Levine Anticipated To Lead Orchestra
By: - Apr 12th, 2010On paper the Boston Symphony Orchestra has planned a full and ambitious season. October 2, when James Levine leads an all-Wagner program with Bryn Terfel on opening night, we will know whether this is wishful thinking. The health of the 66 year Levine impacts not just the BSO but the Metropolitan Opera and the coming season at Tanglewood. For the past three years there has been a scramble to find conductors for concerts he has dropped out of. This grueling schedule assumes his full recovery from yet another surgery,
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Tanglewood Loosens Up
Crosby Stills & Nash, Herbie Hancock to Perform
By: - Apr 12th, 2010Roll Over Beethoven. Yes, rock is coming back to Tanglewood this summer. Well, kindah, with Crosby, Stills and Nash on September 1. Mid season jazz pianist Herbia Hancock will appear on August 9.
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Joshua Bell and the New York Philharmonic
Antonio Pappano of Covent Garden Conducts
By: - Apr 09th, 2010Two galvanic classical musicians appear at Avery Fisher Hall. They may resemble rock stars, but they wield violin and baton, rather than the electric guitars of a performance at Madison Square Garden. Antonio Pappano, a conductor of opera, is referred to as "electrifying." Joshua Bell routinely sells out venues. Can this be classical music?
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Wilco to Rock Mass MoCA
Solid Sound Festival August 13 to 15
By: - Apr 07th, 2010Rock fans in the Berkshires just got a shot in the arm. Wilco, the Chicago band that blew the roof off of Tanglewood two summers ago, will give two performances at Mass MoCA during the Solid Sound Festival from August 13-15. Far out. The weekend of music, art, and interactive events will feature Wilco's only East Coast performance this summer.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
De Burgos Replaces Ailing Levine for Elijah
By: - Apr 07th, 2010The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall performed Mendelssohn's glorious oratorio, Elijah. It was presented with a cast worthy of Cecil B. de Mille. It featured the orchestra, a chorus of 110 voices, four principal soloists and five ensemble soloists. The musician count does not itself make a memorable evening, but this one surely did. Maestro de Burgos, substituted for an ailing James Levine.
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George Wein on New York Jazz Clubs
Featured in CareFusion Jazz Festival
By: - Apr 05th, 2010Back in the day, George Wein, a recent graduate of Boston University, ran a legendary jazz club Storyville in Copley Square. When the club folded he went on to become a founder of the Newport Jazz Festival. Now in his 80s George reports on the thriving jazz club scene in New York and Brooklyn.
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Radvanovsky and Hvorostosky at Carnegie Hall
Marco Armiliato Conducts Brilliantly
By: - Apr 02nd, 2010Two glorious human instruments were on display at Carnegie Hall, whose acoustics displayed all the nuances of musical sound from a luminous orchestra and great voices. Perfect for Bravissimo! the Opera Gala.
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The Saratoga Chamber Music Festival, August 2-17,
Final Season for Music Director Chantal Juillet
By: - Apr 01st, 2010The Saratoga Chamber Music Festival, August 2-17, will be a Farewell Celebration Season for Music Director Chantal Juillet who founded the program in 1991 and who will mark her final season in that role in 2010. Over the past two decades, the renowned violinist has built the program into a highly acclaimed, innovative showcase for chamber music repertoire performed by renowned and emerging classical artists.
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AXIOM Gallery: Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti
Solo Concert Tour of Afrikan Machinery
By: - Mar 31st, 2010On a nationwide solo tour, at Axiom Gallery, Ligeti improvised and played selections from CD Afrikan Machinery [Tzadik] cited as 2008 -50 Records of the Year by The Wire magazine. Concerts in Brooklyn and Boston, then Montreal and Toronto will be followed by many art spaces including Museum of Contemporary Art, in Ohio.
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Tom Rush and Roger McGuinn at the Colonial
Enchanting Concert by Singer/ Songwriters
By: - Mar 29th, 2010Tom Rush is on the road promoting his first new studio CD in 35 years "What I Know." It has been named Best Folk Album of the Year. He also has a four million hit You Tube clip "The Remember Song." He combined with Byrds founder, Roger McGuinn for a laid back, charming, three hour evening at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield.
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San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall
Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts
By: - Mar 27th, 2010The San Francisco Symphony presented the premier of Post-Scriptum by Victor Kissine, which brought the house down. This was followed by Christian Tetzlaff playing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major with intelligence and passion.
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Philadelphia Orchestra at SPAC August 4 to 21
Alex Baldwin and Yo Yo Ma Highlight at Saratoga Springs
By: - Mar 25th, 2010Saratoga Performing Arts Center has announced the 2010 summer season of The Philadelphia Orchestra presented by HSBC Bank USA, N.A., August 4 – 21. Led by Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Charles Dutoit, the three-week program of classical and contemporary masterpieces includes major works by Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Brahms, a special guest appearance by Alec Baldwin who will narrate Prokofiev's classic Peter and the Wolf, a "Farewell Concert" with Charles Dutoit and Chantal Juillet, renowned soloists including Yo-Yo Ma, Sarah Chang and Garrick Ohlsson and "Cirque de la Symphonie.
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The Metropolitan Opera Presents Hamlet
Simon Keenlyside a Brilliant Hamlet
By: - Mar 25th, 2010With such praise preceding him, Simon Keenlyside might have a tough time living up to expectations, but as he inhabits the role of Hamlet, it is clear he belongs there, as a baritone of beauty and range, and a consummate actor worthy of any stage in the world, straight theater or opera. His performance is an event not to be missed. Yet Jennifer Larmore as his wicked mother almost upstages her son.
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Janis Ian and Karla Bonoff at the Colonial
Pittsfield Concert on April 17
By: - Mar 25th, 2010Songs of a Generation is a celebration of song, featuring two of the most influential songwriters of the �60s through the �90s. Janis Ian�s hit songs include �Society�s Child,� �At Seventeen,� �Jessie,� and many more from her 27 albums. Karla Bonoff has written numerous million selling songs including �Someone To Lay Down Beside Me,� �Home,� �All My Life,� �Personally� and �Tell Me Why.�
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New York City Opera's L'Etoile
Opera Bouffe Fluffed to Perfection
By: - Mar 23rd, 2010The greed of a theater owner buried L'Etoile, a huge hit in its Paris premier, and for reasons no one can quite figure out, this enchantingly silly piece wasn't mounted again for almost a hundred years. The New York City Opera stages a charming and funny revival, featuring Can-Can girls, a Chaplinesque King and a guillotine the likes of which you've never seen before. The score is a masterpiece of comic music, as brilliant as the Barber of Seville.
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Tom Rush & Roger McGuinn at Colonial March 27
Vicki Baird Connecting with the Beyond April 11
By: - Mar 23rd, 2010There will be an evening of folk music on Saturday, March 27, at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. Two legends of the 1960s, Tom Rush and Roger McGuinn, will perform in what should be a delightful evening.
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Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival
Gladys Knight and Al Jarreau Headline June 26 & 27
By: - Mar 22nd, 2010Saratoga Performing Arts Center will present the 33rd annual Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival on June 26 and 27. Highlights include Gladys Knight, jazz singer Al Jarreau & the George Duke Trio, blues icon Taj Mahal, guitarist Al Di Meola and pianists Ramsey Lewis and Ahmad Jamal. There will be more than 20 performances over the weekend.
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BSO Conductor James Levine Withdraws
Will Miss Final Three Weeks of BSO Season
By: - Mar 22nd, 2010Chronic back pain will cause Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor and artistic director, James Levine, to end his season in Boston. This year he has been absent for 22 performances or 60 % of his schedule. Jayce Ogren will lead the world premiere of Peter Lieberson's Songs of Love and Sorrow March 25, 26, and 27. The following week, April 1, 2, and 3 in Boston, and April 5 at Carnegie Hall in New York, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos will conduct Mendelssohn's Elijah. The conductor for the world premiere of John Harbison's Double Concerto for violin and cello on a program with Mahler's Seventh Symphony, April 8, 9, and 10, will be announced.
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