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Music Review | Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Trio Mediaeval: The John Henry Who Might Have Been

Most listeners accept it as a given that folk song has been a powerful influence on composers of art music, from the authors of the parody Masses of the 1500s through Haydn, Beethoven and Bartok to Aaron Copland and George Crumb. Often composers drawn ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Henry,  Aaron Copland,  George Crumb,  Woody Guthrie,  Johnny Cash

Music Review | Philip Glass: Glass Looks to the Heavens, Again

Philip Glass clearly enjoys examining ideas from just about every angle, and that applies as fully to opera subjects as to specific musical moves. His earliest operas, for example, were about historical figures who changed the way their societies ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Philip Glass,  Galileo Galilei,  Brooklyn Academy of Music

Music Review | Afiara String Quartet: Prizewinners Arrive, Displaying Their Energy

The Afiara String Quartet, a Canadian ensemble, won both the Concert Artist Guild International Competition and the Munich ARD International Competition in 2008 and became the graduate resident quartet at the Juilliard School this season. It clearly ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Juilliard School

Allen Hughes, Music and Dance Critic for the Times, Dies at 87

Allen Hughes, a longtime music and dance critic for The New York Times who was known for his encouragement of experimental dance companies and his love of the 20th-century French musical repertory, died on Monday in Sarasota, Fla. He was 87 and had ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Allen Hughes,  New York Times Company,  Ford Foundation,  George Balanchine,  New York City Ballet

Music Review | The Zukerman Chamber Players: Starting a Chamber Series With a Bittersweet Brahms

Early in Pinchas Zukerman’s career, when he was best known as a star violin soloist and just starting to conduct, he carved out a place in his concert schedule for chamber music, often though not always with other headliners. More recently, the balance ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times Music,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pinchas Zukerman

Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Zhang Returns, With the Familiar and Otherwise

During her five years as assistant and then associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Xian Zhang proved a substantial musician with an energetic technique and a lively interpretive spirit. Just as her tenure was coming to an end last season, ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Philharmonic,  Xian Zhang,  Giuseppe Verdi,  Garrick Ohlsson

Music Review | Berlin Philharmonic: Brahms Alone, and With Schoenberg’s Big Tweak

Just 22 hours after the last notes were sounded in Carnegie Hall’s adventurous festival of Chinese music, Carnegie returned to its bread-and-butter business of presenting international orchestras in mostly standard repertory. But for listeners who ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Berlin Philharmonic,  Simon Rattle

Music Review: Sounds of China, Unveiled Like an Iris

Over the last three weeks ensembles of all kinds have dropped into Carnegie Hall to explore the exchange of musical influences between China and the West as part of the hall’s festival Ancient Paths, Modern Voices. The concerts have had colorful ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chen Qigang,  Lang Lang

Music Review: A Classic Minimalist Score, Played at Maximal (and Electronical) Length

If you went to Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday evening to hear the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, of Michigan, perform music from its new recording, “In C Remixed,” you got either more or less than you bargained for, depending on your ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble,  Terry Riley

Music Review | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Nightingale and Garden With Hints of China

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s contribution to Carnegie Hall’s Ancient Paths, Modern Voices festival, on Saturday evening, looked at Chinese-Western musical hybrids in which the Western influence was dominant, the Chinese largely incidental. The ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Spano,  Hans Christian Andersen,  Yo-Yo Ma,  Jessica Rivera,  Kostas

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