“Émigré,” about Jews who fled Nazi Germany, debuts amid U.S.-China tensions and cultural rifts over the Israel-Hamas war. It comes to New York in February.
Category: Classical Music
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JACK Quartet Commits to Finding the Music
Its stylistic range, precision and passion have made the group one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles.
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Review: The Philharmonic Feasts on ‘The Planets’
Under Dima Slobodeniouk, the orchestra played works by Holst and Ligeti and, for the first time, Julia Perry’s somber “Stabat Mater.”
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‘Maestro’ Review: Leonard Bernstein’s Life of Ecstasy and Agony
As director and star, Bradley Cooper delivers an intimate portrait of the composer and his many private and public selves.
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Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For
Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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Julia Perry’s ‘Stabat Mater’ Arrives at the Philharmonic
Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater” was well received in the 1950s. But it took until this week for the New York Philharmonic to program it.
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David Del Tredici, Who Set ‘Alice’ to Music, Dies at 86
A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who liked to redefine himself, he was originally known as an experimentalist but was later identified with a lush style that came to be called the New Romanticism.
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At the Philharmonic, Violin Concertos as Alike as They Are Different
In back-to-back programs, the orchestra presented concertos by Beethoven and Benjamin Britten.
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Review: ‘Florencia’ Brings Spanish Back to the Met Opera
Starring Ailyn Pérez, Daniel Catán’s heavily perfumed “Florencia en el Amazonas,” from 1996, is the company’s first work by a Latin American composer.
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Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes: A Diary of an Influential Life
Begun to improve his own technique, piano exercises that Glass wrote over decades are the subject this month of a new book, a concert and dances.
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Park Avenue Armory Will Host ‘Illinoise’ and ‘Indra’s Net’ in 2024
The Armory’s upcoming season also includes the North American premiere of ‘Inside Light.’
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Ahead of APEC Summit, Musicians from Philadelphia Orchestra Tour China
The visit, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the orchestra’s pathbreaking 1973 visit to Beijing, drew praise from President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China.