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| 'I've got this awful feeling," says Paul McCreesh, "that when I die the word 'reconstruction' will be put on my tombstone."
McCreesh is the dynamic conductor of the Gabrieli Consort & Players, who are about to enter their 25th anniversary season, and the recording that first really gripped the public's imagination back in 1990 was a reconstruction – that dread epitaph – of a Doge's coronation as it might have been experienced in Venice in 1595. It combined pomp and ceremony with the music of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, and broke new ground in the way that "early" music could be presented on disc...To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com: Password proklassika. |
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| 20.10.2006 / The Telegraph |
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| Jay Greenberg is 15 but he can knock off a sonata between lessons, complete a concerto without touching a keyboard, and his Fifth Symphony has just been recorded by the LSO. But don’t compare him to previous prodigies, he tells Philip Sherwell in New York...To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com: Password proklassika |
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| 20.10.2006 / The Telegraph |
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| Soprano Ruth Ann Swenson has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo surgery next week and chemotherapy shortly afterwards, reports Opera News.
In a statement, the soprano said, "While my prognosis is excellent, I know that this will be a difficult time, so I welcome the support of family, friends, colleagues and fans, and I look forward to returning to the Met in the spring." |
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| 20.10.2006 / PlayBill Arts |
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| Not since Aaron Copland turned 75 has the birthday of an American composer been greeted with the jubilation now surrounding Steve Reich as he enters his eighth decade. The classical establishment, which still hasn't figured out how to award Reich a Pulitzer Prize, has finally embraced a composer, and a movement, that it had relegated to the margins. |
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| 20.10.2006 / The Nation |
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| Four years after a site was chosen for a new symphony hall and seven years into the fund-raising effort, the new head of the Woodruff Arts Center is rethinking the location for the planned Midtown landmark.
Arts Center CEO Joe Bankoff acknowledged this week that fund-raising for the new hall has stalled, and he is meeting with Woodruff trustees, potential donors and others to reassess plans for the center, now proposed for 14th Street. |
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| 20.10.2006 / Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
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| In its continuing efforts to win a wider audience, the Washington National Opera plans to present its second free live simulcast from the Kennedy Center to the Mall on Nov. 12.
The opera will be Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," in the acclaimed 2001 production by director Mariusz Trelinski. Tatiana Borodina will sing the title role, with Arturo Chacón-Cruz as Lieutenant Pinkerton. Placido Domingo, WNO's general director, will conduct the Washington Opera Orchestra and Chorus...To read this article try: Email Login: info@concert-hall.com; Password: proklassika. |
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| 20.10.2006 / Washington Post |
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| “It’s a little funny in a way, the attention I’m getting for going back to City Opera,” Julius Rudel said last week. “For 25 years I have been conducting at the Metropolitan Opera and nobody has written anything, or even noticed.” Mr. Rudel, 85, his crisp white hair still in its familiar combed-back wave, was sitting in his spacious Upper West Side apartment in the late afternoon sun, relaxing after a rehearsal for “Così Fan Tutte,” which opens on Saturday...To read this article try: ID Login: opus1classical; Password: proklassika |
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| 20.10.2006 / New York Times |
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| The number-crunching for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 115th annual meeting on Thursday afternoon revealed stronger than expected ticket sales, subscription renewals, fund-raising and deficit reduction.
In an environment of concern about the future health of classical music, executives and board leaders of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association almost seemed surprised at the good news. |
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| 20.10.2006 / Chicago Sun Times |
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| You might not think that the music of Bach has a lot in common with that of Toru Takemitsu, and by most standards of measurement — the composers’ use of harmony, rhythm and musical syntax — you would be correct. ID Login: opus1classical Password: proklassika
But Peter Serkin’s standards have always been a bit different from everyone else’s. At Zankel Hall on Wednesday evening, he performed most of Takemitsu’s solo keyboard music, with Bach works opening and closing the program. And he showed that under the right circumstances, there are connections to be made. |
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| 16.10.2006 / New York Times |
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| A consortium of ten European media outlets convened by the French magazine Le Monde de la Musique has named its list of the Top Ten European Orchestras — and the Vienna Philharmonic has taken the top slot, just barely beating out the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. The results of the voting were reported last week by the website AbeilleMusique.com. |
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| 16.10.2006 / PlayBill Arts |
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