Classical Beat: June, 2011
Posted at 02:01 PM ET, 06/29/2011
By Anne Midgette
Further thoughts on orchestral outreach, music education, and that elusive (to orchestras) 40-something demographic.
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02:01 PM ET, 06/29/2011 |
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Posted at 11:38 AM ET, 06/27/2011
By Anne Midgette
Orchestras focus their outreach efforts on reaching schoolchildren who are no longer getting music in the classroom. Well and good: but is this really building the audience of the future, or simply a sign that orchestras don’t know what else to do?
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11:38 AM ET, 06/27/2011 |
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Posted at 09:10 AM ET, 06/27/2011
By Anne Midgette
Lorin Maazel inaugurates a new “opera house” with his first-ever live performance of Puccini’s “La Boheme.”
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09:10 AM ET, 06/27/2011 |
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Posted at 08:43 PM ET, 06/24/2011
By William Robin
From London, William Robin reviews the premiere of the new opera by the 29-year-old composer Nico Muhly, which after its English National Opera premiere on Friday will head to the Metropolitan Opera in 2013-14.
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08:43 PM ET, 06/24/2011 |
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Posted at 12:13 AM ET, 06/24/2011
By Joe Banno and Seth Colter Walls
Reviews of a Holocaust oratorio at the Kennedy Center and the New York Philharmonic’s outing with Janacek’s “Cunning Little Vixen” at Lincoln Center.
By Joe Banno and Seth Colter Walls |
12:13 AM ET, 06/24/2011 |
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Posted at 11:03 AM ET, 06/22/2011
By Anne Midgette
Philip Kennicott and I offer contrasting, and complementing, views of the Francesca Zambello “Ring” at the San Francisco Opera — after the Washington National Opera pulled the plug.
By Anne Midgette |
11:03 AM ET, 06/22/2011 |
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Posted at 03:32 PM ET, 06/21/2011
By Anne Midgette
Washington Post reviews of the NSO, the opening of the Wolf Trap Opera Company season, Chantry, Mahler CDs, and more.
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03:32 PM ET, 06/21/2011 |
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Posted at 02:57 PM ET, 06/18/2011
By Anne Midgette and Nancy McKeon
A double dose of coverage of the DC area’s newest summer festival: conductor Lorin Maazel opens his home and his pocketbook to creating an international-caliber training festival, and in three years has put it firmly on the map.
By Anne Midgette and Nancy McKeon |
02:57 PM ET, 06/18/2011 |
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Posted at 09:03 AM ET, 06/13/2011
By Anne Midgette
Christoph Eschenbach plays two different concerts with Jennifer Koh; the Kreeger Chamber Series gets off to a shaky start; and Marin Alsop leads the Verdi Requiem.
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09:03 AM ET, 06/13/2011 |
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Posted at 09:08 AM ET, 06/06/2011
By Anne Midgette
Reviews in the Washington Post: Alsop conducts Golijov’s latest; the Cantate Chamber Singers offers 20th-century American composers; the National Philharmonic offers same ol’ Tchaikovsky.
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09:08 AM ET, 06/06/2011 |
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Posted at 02:22 AM ET, 06/03/2011
By Anne Midgette
John Axelrod leads a Bernstein program at the NSO, rehabilitating the “Kaddish” symphony and raising old questions about Bernstein’s legacy as a composer.
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02:22 AM ET, 06/03/2011 |
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