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Classical Beat: April, 2011

Posted at 12:42 AM ET, 04/29/2011

Links: “Inspector,” Tetzlaff, and NSO
By Anne Midgette and Robert Battey

By Anne Midgette and Robert Battey  |  12:42 AM ET, 04/29/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 09:31 AM ET, 04/27/2011

Link: Let’s make an opera
By Anne Midgette
Wolf Trap’s world premiere on Wednesday of “The Inspector” by John Musto and Mark Campbell shows a resourcefulness more companies might emulate when it comes to getting on new opera.

By Anne Midgette  |  09:31 AM ET, 04/27/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 10:46 AM ET, 04/25/2011

Links: concerts by Orpheus, Great Noise Ensemble
By various critics
Web-only reviews of this weekend’s classical music concerts: conductor-less Orpheus; John Luther Adams played by Great Noise Ensemble.

By various critics  |  10:46 AM ET, 04/25/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 10:42 AM ET, 04/25/2011

Music review: Cloudscapes from the Great Noise Ensemble
By
The composer John Luther Adam’s meditative and beautiful “Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing” is a worthy contribution to Earth Day.

By  |  10:42 AM ET, 04/25/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 09:11 AM ET, 04/25/2011

Link: 7 ways of looking at Met “Walküre”
By Anne Midgette
The reviews of the Metropolitan Opera’s new “Die Walküre” by Robert Lepage are trickling in, and the news is not very good.

By Anne Midgette  |  09:11 AM ET, 04/25/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 08:16 PM ET, 04/24/2011

Music review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
By — Robert Battey
The New York-based conductorless orchestra flashed its “how-do-they-do-it?” chops at George Mason University on Saturday.

By — Robert Battey  |  08:16 PM ET, 04/24/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 10:17 AM ET, 04/24/2011

Peter Lieberson, RIP
By Anne Midgette
The composer Pieter Lieberson dies at 64 of cancer, five years after the death of his wife, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

By Anne Midgette  |  10:17 AM ET, 04/24/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 10:07 AM ET, 04/24/2011

Sunday links: Opera in the movies; Trio Mediaeval’s latest CD.
By Anne Midgette
In today’s Washington Post, some thoughts on opera’s use in film soundtracks, inspired by HBO’s recent Mildred Pierce. Plus: the lastest CD from Trio Mediaeval.

By Anne Midgette  |  10:07 AM ET, 04/24/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:38 PM ET, 04/21/2011

Freud in Chicago
By Anne Midgette
The British-born Anthony Freud is announced as the next administrative hed of the Chicago Lyric Opera.

By Anne Midgette  |  12:38 PM ET, 04/21/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 11:12 AM ET, 04/19/2011

Zhou Long wins music Pulitzer
By Anne Midgette
The Chinese-born composer’s opera “Madame White Snake” intriguingly synthesizes West and East.

By Anne Midgette  |  11:12 AM ET, 04/19/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 10:25 AM ET, 04/19/2011

Orchestral futures: is Philly’s tragedy a harbinger or merely a warning?
By Anne Midgette
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s bankrupcy is the latest and most graphic illustration of the old orchestral model not working. But other groups are finding new ways to prosper.

By Anne Midgette  |  10:25 AM ET, 04/19/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:23 AM ET, 04/18/2011

Links: Berta Rojas and BSO’s “Gold Rush,” plus the 21st Century Consort
By Anne Midgette, Charles T. Downey and Stephen Brookes
Links to reviews of concerts in the Washington area, plus a full Web review of the 21st Century Consort’s very 20th century program.

By Anne Midgette, Charles T. Downey and Stephen Brookes  |  12:23 AM ET, 04/18/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:12 AM ET, 04/18/2011

Link: In Cologne, Stockhausen’s “Sonntag” finally gets a hearing.

By Anne Midgette and Seth Colter Walls
Seth Colter Walls writes from Germany about the world premiere of a six-hour opera by the late, eccentric, and no-longer-lionized Karlheinz Stockhausen.

By Anne Midgette and Seth Colter Walls  |  12:12 AM ET, 04/18/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:18 PM ET, 04/14/2011

Links: Temirkanov, “Rappahannock County,” more
By Anne Midgette, Joe Banno and Cecelia Porter
Yuri Temirkanov’s important Washington concert is reviewed in a Web-only exclusive. Plus: a civil Civil War song cycle, “Rappahannock County.”

By Anne Midgette, Joe Banno and Cecelia Porter  |  12:18 PM ET, 04/14/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 01:06 PM ET, 04/12/2011

Links: Kronos, Shahams, and more
By Anne Midgette
Links to a bonanza of classical reviews in today’s paper, after one of the busiest weekends for classical concerts in Washington I can remember.

By Anne Midgette  |  01:06 PM ET, 04/12/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:24 PM ET, 04/11/2011

RIP Daniel Catan
By Anne Midgette
The composer who wrote the opera “Il Postino” for Placido Domingo is found dead in his hotel room.

By Anne Midgette  |  12:24 PM ET, 04/11/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 10:00 AM ET, 04/11/2011

Widmung: music of dedication
By Anne Midgette
Judith Martin’s recent mention of a song cycle her husband commissioned for her 60th birthday leads to a party game: name works of music written or commissioned for loved ones.

By Anne Midgette  |  10:00 AM ET, 04/11/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 09:42 AM ET, 04/11/2011

Weekend Links: Stravinsky, Dinnerstein, and more
By
Links to reviews in the Washington Post, including the Stravinsky Project at Strathmore and Simone Dinnerstein’s strong recital for WPAS.

By  |  09:42 AM ET, 04/11/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 10:04 AM ET, 04/08/2011

Links: NSO with Upshaw; Midori with Biss
By Anne Midgette and Robert Battey
The National Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach offer beguiling Webern (yes, really); Midori gathers soloists for ad-hoc Schubert.

By Anne Midgette and Robert Battey  |  10:04 AM ET, 04/08/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 01:10 PM ET, 04/07/2011

Grammys cuts awards: classical loses 4
By Anne Midgette
The bad news is there are fewer Grammy awards to be won next year. The good news is, they eliminated the award for classical crossover.

By Anne Midgette  |  01:10 PM ET, 04/07/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:16 PM ET, 04/07/2011

Aspen and the American conductor
By Anne Midgette
The announcement that Robert Spano is taking over as music director in Aspen, after David Zinman’s precipitate departure, gives rise to some thoughts about the lot of the American conductor.

By Anne Midgette  |  12:16 PM ET, 04/07/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 08:59 AM ET, 04/07/2011

Link: Opera Lafayette returns to England with “Acis”

By Charles T. Downey
Washington’s Baroque opera company returns to a Handel gem at the Terrace Theater, reviewed by Charles T. Downey

By Charles T. Downey  |  08:59 AM ET, 04/07/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 10:42 AM ET, 04/06/2011

Link: VA Orchestra’s romantic harmony
By Anne Midgette
In the Washington Post, Monica Hesse spotlights the nine married couples in the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.

By Anne Midgette  |  10:42 AM ET, 04/06/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 05:12 PM ET, 04/05/2011

Conductor movies
By Anne Midgette
It began as an idle Tweet in the morning; by the afternoon Twitter was hopping with people suggesting spoof movie titles incorporating the names of conductors. “The Wizard of Ozawa,” anyone?

By Anne Midgette  |  05:12 PM ET, 04/05/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:12 PM ET, 04/05/2011

DSO strike ends: outlook uncertain
By Anne Midgette
After a six-month strike wiped out 75% of its season, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra starts to pick up the pieces.

By Anne Midgette  |  12:12 PM ET, 04/05/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:02 PM ET, 04/05/2011

NSO names new assistant conductor
By Anne Midgette
Ankush Kumar Bahl takes over two-year post leading family concerts, acting as cover conductor, with start of 2011-12 season

By Anne Midgette  |  12:02 PM ET, 04/05/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 10:58 AM ET, 04/05/2011

Links: Ruehr and Messiaen in Sunday concerts
By Anne Midgette and Charles T. Downey
Links to reviews of music by Elena Ruehr and Olivier Messiaen in Tuesday’s Washington Post.

By Anne Midgette and Charles T. Downey  |  10:58 AM ET, 04/05/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 09:08 AM ET, 04/04/2011

Trio Solisti headlines Dumbarton Concerts
By
The members of Trio Solisti shine in Piazzola’s “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” and acquit themselves well in Dvorak, but bring little new to “Pictures at an Exhibition.”

By  |  09:08 AM ET, 04/04/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 08:54 AM ET, 04/04/2011

Weekend links: another “Butterfly,” Trio Solisti, National Philharmonic, etc.

By Anne Midgette
Reviews of the National Philharmonic, the Trio Solisti, the Virginia opera, and Arlington’s new opera festival Urban Arias.

By Anne Midgette  |  08:54 AM ET, 04/04/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 01:55 AM ET, 04/04/2011

Opera review: Ricky Ian Gordon’s ‘Green Sneakers’

By
Ricky Ian Gordon’s autobiographical chamber opera “Green Sneakers,” about the death of his partner from AIDS, got a careful performance by UrbanArias that did not quite overcome the sometimes cloying material.

By  |  01:55 AM ET, 04/04/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 01:53 AM ET, 04/04/2011

Gajewski leads National Philharmonic while pianist Lipkin sparkles
By
Piotr Gajewski led the National Philharmonic at Strathmore Hall on Saturday in a Beethoven program, featuring the liquid simplicity of pianist Seymour Lipkin.

By  |  01:53 AM ET, 04/04/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:47 AM ET, 04/03/2011

Links: All about Ricky
By Anne Midgette
Full-court coverage of the composer Ricky Ian Gordon, who has three operas playing in the region in the next two weeks.

By Anne Midgette  |  12:47 AM ET, 04/03/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:35 AM ET, 04/02/2011

Links: NSO, Miro Quartet, and Verge Ensemble
By Anne Midgette
Links to reviews of Ivan Fischer and the National Symphony Orchestra; the Verge Ensemble; and Colin Currie and the Miro Quartet.

By Anne Midgette  |  12:35 AM ET, 04/02/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)

 

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