Susan Hall
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Strauss' Elektra at the Metropolitan Opera Music
Conducted by Fabio Luisi with Susan Bullock
By: - Dec 16th, 2009Elektra had its season premier at the Metropolitan Opera on December 10, with Susan Bullock in her Met debut in the title role. The opera as tone poem was conducted by Fabio Luisi with passion and clarity. The score is unrelenting, powerful, but also vulgar and unembarrassed. That was how it was played. It was a thrilling evening.
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Hark the Herald: The NY Philharmonic Brass Music
Guest Brass from West Point Blast Away!
By: - Dec 14th, 2009The Philharmonic Brass has offered a holiday festival since 1995, with invited guests. Sunday they were joined by the West Point Concert Band Brass.
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Patricia Racette Dialogue at the Morgan Library People
Celebrating Puccini's 150th birthday
By: - Dec 04th, 2009Patricia Racette shared insights into operatic performance and Puccini at the Morgan Library. The lecture on "Adventures in Italian Opera" was co-sponsored by the Morgan and the Casa Italiana of New York University. The evening's moderator was opera and Italian culture aficionado, Fred Plotkin.
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High Holidays by Alan Gross Chicago's Goodman Theater Theatre
Starring 13 Year-Old Max Zuppa
By: - Nov 30th, 2009Award-winning poet and playwright Alan Gross returns to Chicago and the legitimate theater. The Goodman Theater presented the world premiere of "High Holiday," brilliantly directed by Steven Robman.
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Karita Mattila as Katya Kabanova at Chicago's Lyric Opera Music
Jonathan Miller Revives Production of Leos Janacek
By: - Nov 27th, 2009Karita Mattila performs the title role in Leos Janacek's Katya Kabanova with her glorious voice on full display. The production at the Lyric Opera is peerless. Janacek is recognized with Benjamin Britten as one of the two great operatic composers of the 20th century.
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Riccardo Muti Conducts the New York Philharmonic Music
Thrilling Performances of Liszt, Elgar and Prokovief
By: - Nov 22nd, 2009Both orchestra and audience eagerly await the arrival of Riccardo Muti at Avery Fisher Hall. The program on November 19th progressed from Liszt, to Elgar,to Prokovief's ravishing "Romeo and Juliet."
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Andre Agassi's Word
The State of Book Publishing Part I
By: - Nov 14th, 2009The publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, of the controversial book "Open" by Andre Agassi, as told to and in collaboration with J. R. Moehringer, claims that it is not about tennis. Instead it is being hyped on 60 Minutes and in the media as "A Book for the Ages." Really? Perhaps it will one day be placed in the drawers of motel rooms along with that Other inspirational book. Or not.
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Esther at the New York City Opera Music
Lauren Flanigan and Stephen Kechulius Magnificent
By: - Nov 09th, 2009On November 6, the New York City Opera presented "Esther" a haunting and beautiful opera by American composer Hugo Weisgall It was performed in the renovated concert hall in a renovated concert hall, the David H. Koch Theater of Lincoln Center.
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Thomas Hampson at the New York Philharmonic Music
Neeme Jarvi Conducts Theatrical Music
By: - Nov 06th, 2009The New York Philharmonic, under the baton of famed Estonian conductor Neeme Jarvi performed Beethoven, Mozart and Zemlinsky last evening at Avery Fisher Hall. The program is repeated on November 6 and 10.
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Lang Lang and Friends at Carnegie Hall Music
Ancient Paths/Modern Voices in New York
By: - Oct 28th, 2009Super pianist Lang Lang performed chamber music in the company of friends and presented future talents as part of a Festival celebrating Chinese culture.
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Christine Brewer Bewitches at Carnegie Hall Music
An American Nightingale
By: - Oct 15th, 2009Christine Brewer, a magnificent American soprano, performed a varied program accompanied by Craig Rutenberg. They performed works by Gluck. Strauss,Marx, Britten, Marx and Wagner.
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Award Winner Hahn-Bin's Debut at Carnegie Hall Music
Goth and Emo Styles Morph as Emerging Violinist
By: - Oct 12th, 2009What do Hahn Bin, Emanuel Ax, Ruth Laredo, Dawn Upshaw, Richard Goode, Pinchas Zuckerman and the Tokyo String Quarter have in common. They are all winners of the prestigious Young Concert Artists award. The Mohwk coiffed performer made his Carnegie Hall Award Concert debut before an appreciative audience.
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Aida by Giuseppe Verdi Premieres at the Metropolitan Opera House Music
Live in HD Broadcast Set for October 24
By: - Oct 05th, 2009Aida made its season premier on October 2 at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. This beloved opera has everything -- a passionate love triangle, war between neighbors, father pitted against daughter (in a scene that rivals that of Brunhilde and Wotan), priests who rule under a ruthless God, and rulers who cannot accept either losses or victories as sufficient. The opera will be broadcast in the Live from the Met series on October 24 at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington.
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Alan Gilbert Conducts the New York Philharmonic Music
Emanuel Ax, Pianist
By: - Oct 01st, 2009On September 30,the New York Philharmonic presented EXPO, a new Magnus Lindberg work, two compositions by Charles Ives and a dynamic performance of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto featuring Emanuel Ax.
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Brahms and Schoenberg at the New York Philharmonic Music
Maestro Alan Gilbert Tours the Leitmotifs
By: - Sep 26th, 2009It was exciting to be at Avery Fisher Hall as Alan Gilbert led the New York Philharmonic in the Brahms vioin concerto and Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melinsande.
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A New Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York Music
Karita Mattila Makes Her Met Debut as Tosca
By: - Sep 22nd, 2009An eagerly awaited new production for Puccini's Tosca opened the Met for the 2009-2010 season, and will be broadcast Live in HD on October 10.
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Maestro Alan Gilbert at New York Philharmonic Music
New Conductor Leads Adventuresome Program on PBS
By: - Sep 16th, 2009September 16, 2009,the day we have waited for. Maestro Alan Gilbert takes the podium at Avery Fisher Hall...
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Summer HD Festival in Lincoln Center Plaza - Part Two Music
Encores from the Metropolitan Opera
By: - Sep 08th, 2009Although these opera broadcasts were encores, they seemed very present -- revealing the originals in a new and satisfying experience.
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Summer HD Festival Soars in Lincoln Center Plaza Music
Favorite Met Operas Free for Fans
By: - Sep 03rd, 2009The economy made the traditional free concerts in New York City parks prohibitively expensive, but we've been treated to something even better. There were HD Metropolitan Opera broadcasts from Lincoln Center.
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The Brave Encompass New Opera in New York Music
From Chaucer to String Theory
By: - Aug 16th, 2009On June 19 and 20 at the Gerald Lynch Theater in New York the indominatable Nancy Rhodes mounted a new opera by Louis Gioia
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The Temptations and the Four Tops at Ravinia Festival Music
Motown Lives in Chicago Battle of the Bands
By: - Aug 10th, 2009After a rollicking Motown anniversary celebration where the Temptations and the Four Tops appeared in a battle-of-the-bands, the groups decided to go on the road together from time to time. On Friday August 7th they appeared together in a program at Ravinia in Chicago
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Rapturous Russia, Piano Concertos at Chicago's Ravinia Festival Music
Three Brilliant Young Pianists Perform
By: - Aug 07th, 2009Billed as Rapturous Russia, the stage at Ravinia, summer home of the Chicago Symphony, was filled with glamorous ladies at the top of their game performing the first concertos of Shostakovich, Prokovief and Rachmaninoff.
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El Grito del Bronx at the Goodman Theater, Chicago Theatre
World Premier By Migdalia Cruz
By: - Aug 04th, 2009At the Goodman Theater in Chicago the annual celebration of Latino plays is underway. The world premiere of "El Frito del Bronx" by Migdalia Cruz was presented with a money back guarantee.
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James Levine at Tanglewood Music
Divine Mozart and Mahler Program
By: - Jul 20th, 2009On Friday, July 17th, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Leon Fleisher as piano soloist, performed Mozart's Piano Concerto in A Major and then took on the majestic Mahler Sixth Symphony under James Levine. It was yet another example of the Divine Levine.
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Noel Coward's Easy Virtue Film
Stephen Elliot's Adaption of 1925 Play
By: - Jun 27th, 2009"Easy Virtue",a delicious update on Noel Coward, opened in limited release at the end of May...tuned to our times. Alfred Hitchcock made a silent film based on the play. Why would Hitchcock have been attracted when Coward is first and foremost a wordsmith and sound was not available for the 1927 production?
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