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Elisabeth Soderstrom, Revered Swedish Soprano, Dies at 82

Elisabeth Soderstrom, the Swedish soprano acclaimed for the plangent richness and intelligence of her singing and for her wide-ranging repertory, including influential portrayals of leading roles in the operas of Janacek, died on Friday in Stockholm, ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Frick Collection,  Pierre Boulez,  Sony,  Charles Mackerras,  Emilia (musician)

Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Maestro Who Said No Returns to Philharmonic

When the news came in May 2008 that Riccardo Muti, who had resisted entreaties from the New York Philharmonic to become its music director, had accepted the directorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, many Philharmonic musicians went public with ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Philharmonic,  Riccardo Muti,  Alan Gilbert,  Lorin Maazel

Music Review | American Classical Orchestra: An Intimate Concert, With Original Instruments

The American Classical Orchestra, an original-instrument ensemble celebrating its 25th anniversary this season, presented a concert on Wednesday night at the New York Society for Ethical Culture conducted by its founding director, Thomas Crawford. I ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Society for Ethical Culture

Music Review | New York Woodwind Quintet: Exulting in the Orneriness of a Composer’s Composer

The ingenious, curmudgeonly American composer Ralph Shapey, who died at 81 in 2002, wrote flinty works of uncompromising complexity. He expected listeners to bring their brains as well as their humanity to the concert hall, as he often said. Composer ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ralph Shapey,  New York Times Company,  Columbia University

Music Review | Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Mixing Contemporary (Cough) With Difficult (Cough) Classical

The brilliant French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard enjoys giving recital programs that mix old and new works in ways intended to intrigue, delight and even rattle audiences. He did so again, with fascinating results, on Sunday afternoon at Alice Tully ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Karlheinz Stockhausen

Music Review | Leif Ove Andsnes: Sound and Vision: A Piano Recital With a Multimedia Heart

The remarkable Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is a self-effacing, substantive and completely unflashy artist. You would not peg him as someone curious to explore multimedia and reinvent the piano recital. Leif Ove Andsnes played music by Mussorgsky ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Leif Ove Andsnes

Opera Review | 'From the House of the Dead': Two Debuts, Overdue and Overwhelming, at the Metropolitan Opera

Opera Round Table New York Times music, book and theater critics discuss the work on ArtsBeat. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. He had much more than that ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Metropolitan Opera,  New York Times Company,  Esa-Pekka Salonen,  Charles Mackerras

Music Review | 'Don Giovanni': The Seducer’s New Clothes (and Bad Old Ways)

In planning New York City Opera’s comeback 2009-10 season, George Steel, the company’s new general manager and artistic director, knew that the budget would allow him just one chance to make a statement with a new production of a standard repertory ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York City Opera,  George Steel

Music Review | 'Esther': Reborn: Neglected Work and City Opera

With the New York City Opera’s production of Hugo Weisgall’s “Esther,” which opened on Saturday night at the David H. Koch Theater, this essential company, teetering on the brink of extinction not long ago, announced it was back. Not just up and ...

From ANTHONY TOMMASINI, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lauren Flanigan,  David H. Koch,  Hugo Weisgall,  New York City Opera,  Charles Kondek

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,  George Manahan

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