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Music Review: City Opera Returns, With Improved Acoustics

The New York City Opera opened its 2009-10 season on Thursday night with a celebratory program, “American Voices,” and for once at an opening-night gala there really was a great deal to celebrate. The company is back in business, and its long-imperfect ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York City Opera,  George Steel,  Osvaldo Golijov,  Rufus Wainwright,  William Bolcom

Music Review: Classical Music Takes Center Stage at the White House

WASHINGTON Wednesday was classical music day at the White House. The festivities and performances were sponsored by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, created by executive order in 1982. The first lady serves as honorary ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Michelle Obama,  Joshua Bell,  Alisa Weilerstein,  Sharon Isbin

Music: Mikes Banished, Natural Sound Returns to City Opera

The New York City Opera missing in action through the 2008-9 season as it grappled with a debilitating deficit and a chaotic leadership crisis returns on Thursday evening with “American Voices,” a gala program at its extensively renovated home, the ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York City Opera,  David H. Koch,  George Steel,  Birgit Nilsson,  John Adams

Music Review | Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra: Everyone’s a Drummer for This Hybrid Group

Even before the concert by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Friday night, a steady rush of rattling, whirring sounds, audible in the lobby, emanated from the auditorium. On entering the hall, every member of the audience was given a ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yo-Yo Ma,  Juilliard School

Music Review | 'Turandot': He’s Come to Melt the Heart of an Ice Princess

The arduous title role of Puccini’s “Turandot” has become a calling card for the American soprano Lise Lindstrom in houses from Berlin to Hong Kong to San Diego. On Wednesday night, two weeks earlier than originally scheduled, Ms. Lindstrom made her ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Metropolitan Opera,  Franco Zeffirelli,  Samuel Ramey

Music Review | Benjamin Hochman: A Lunchtime Break, Complete With Food for Thought

The premise of Columbia University’s free Lunchtime Concerts, presented at Philosophy Hall, an intimate reading room ideal for chamber music, is that only one work should be played per program. On Monday, for the first installment of the pianist ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University

Music Review | Dallas Opera: Verdi’s Moor, Edgy in Cyprus or Dallas

DALLAS There was a bittersweet element to the festivities at the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House here on Friday night. The performance that began the 53rd season of the Dallas Opera, a new production of Verdi’s “Otello,” came on the day that ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dallas Opera,  AT&T Inc.,  Tormentor (musician),  Laura Bush,  Norman Foster

The New World on the Two Coasts

WHEN a music director takes the helm of a major American orchestra, the inaugural concert should be not just a musical celebration but a statement of artistic mission. The recent debuts of Alan Gilbert at the New York Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Gustavo Dudamel,  Los Angeles Philharmonic,  James Levine,  Alan Gilbert,  Boston Symphony Orchestra

Music Review | Dallas Symphony Orchestra: A Dutchman Is Finding His Home in Dallas

DALLAS There were several rousing ovations during the conductor Jaap van Zweden’s concert with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on Thursday night at the Meyerson Symphony Center here, especially after the final work, an urgent, colorful and incisive ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, International Herald Tribune,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dallas Symphony Orchestra,  Jaap van Zweden,  Douglas Adams,  Jean-Yves Thibaudet,  Andrew Litton

Music Review | Quanzhou Marionette Theater: Song of the Monk and the Monkey

Ancient Paths, Modern Voices, Carnegie Hall’s three-week festival celebrating Chinese culture and its worldwide impact, may sound like a formidable, if intriguing, venture. To the delight of the audience that packed Zankel Hall on Wednesday night, the ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Quanzhou Marionette Theater

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