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When composers look for important voices among the family of wind instruments, they come away, more often than not, with a clarinet. It has many colors. Its acoustical presence makes it a good public speaker. It can sing simply or be complicated on ...
“Yale at Carnegie” offered different come-ons to different constituencies on Sunday night. The concert, the fifth in a series bringing the university’s school of music to Carnegie Hall, appealed first to the curious. Prokofiev’s B flat Piano Concerto ...
Jessye Norman, a busy and faithful participant in New York’s vocal world for so many years, has not been around much in recent seasons. She returned to Carnegie Hall on Thursday in a recital titled “The Five Seasons.” It consisted, she explained, of ...
Certain revolutions speak in small voices yet describe profound and sudden change. “L’Histoire du Soldat,” Stravinsky’s traveling music-theater show, was one of them, saying in few words and not that many notes what music in 1918 no longer was and at ...
Bryn Terfel’s recital at Carnegie Hall on Friday evening described the wave of nostalgia that swept across Edwardian music. Pastoral England was disappearing and an industrial England replacing it, but maybe a great empire could have it both ways: ...
For anyone as devoted to money as Igor Stravinsky, the Russian Revolution came as a terrible shock. Hello, proletariat. Goodbye, royalties. The ruling classes disappeared into the chaos, and with them the copyrights that protected such surefire ...
Modesty and a taste for the ordinary are not opera’s usual ingredients. Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” in the operatic version by Ned Rorem, came to the Juilliard Opera Center on Wednesday night. Its just-folks serenity could only be American.
There ...
The performing arts have played shy suitor to the Park Avenue Armory. There have been visits to the front door, but a reluctance to knock. Think of a concert Saturday in the Miller Theater’s Stravinsky Festival as a first date.
The Vox Vocal Ensemble ...
For Anne-Sophie Mutter the saying “Make every note count” becomes less a vague cliché and more a matter of fact. Her violin playing has an imagination, a curiosity and a near-endless reserve of psychic energy that made each phrase of her all-Brahms ...
I remember the American soprano Kathleen Battle as having one of the purest voices I have ever heard. Most New Yorkers have not had much chance to hear it firsthand since her famous run-in with Joseph Volpe and the Metropolitan Opera in 1994.
Kathleen ...
