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A New Musical Marriage in Los Angeles

The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. A DAY before a Nov. 5 performance of Verdi’s Requiem by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall here, the ...

From DANIEL J. WAKIN, International Herald Tribune,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Los Angeles Philharmonic,  Gustavo Dudamel,  Livingston (actor),  University of Southern California,  James Miller

Hollywood Swoons for That Hair, That Baton

LOS ANGELES They drew the line at the bobble-head doll. The face of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, has been plastered across town on buses, billboards and banners. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical ...

From DANIEL J. WAKIN, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hollywood Bowl,  Los Angeles Philharmonic,  Gustavo Dudamel,  Leonard Bernstein,  Esa-Pekka Salonen

A Lover of Birds and Opera Leaves Millions to Both

Mona Webster, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter who lived in Edinburgh and died in August at 96, had a love of birds, and warblers in particular of the human kind. She demonstrated that affection by leaving most of her fortune to the Metropolitan Opera ...

From DANIEL J. WAKIN, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mona Webster,  Metropolitan Opera,  Peter Gelb

A Turn in Solo Spotlight for Orchestra Players

The world’s great orchestras buzz through and around New York every season. Their leading players have solo ambitions. Concert halls need product. Elisha Abas, a pianist, has helped start a concert series. The latest on the arts, coverage of live ...

From DANIEL J. WAKIN, The New York Times,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Berlin Philharmonic,  New York Philharmonic,  Baruch College

Little Known in America, an English Composer Finds a Bit of Spotlight

Few American concertgoers know his name, let alone his music. He does not benefit from blockbuster anniversary concerts commemorating his birth (1892) or death (1983). The New York Philharmonic, according to its database, has never performed his music. ...

From DANIEL J. WAKIN, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Philharmonic,  John F. Kennedy

In Carnegie Crew’s Pay, Union Plays Supporting Role

Some of the highest-paid people at Carnegie Hall will never have their names on the big posters outside or sit in its executive suites or stand next to famous conductors. They are members of Carnegie’s permanent stage crew, the self-effacing men in ...

From DANIEL J. WAKIN, The New York Times,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Clive Gillinson,  Metropolitan Opera,  Cornell University,  Boston Symphony Orchestra

A Tearful (and Lucrative) Parting of Virtuoso and Violin

With tears in his eyes the violinist Aaron Rosand left his soul behind in a London hotel suite last week. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. That is how he ...

From DANIEL J. WAKIN, International Herald Tribune,  21 Oct 2009

Into the Music: A Cougar Caught in Time’s Trap

RICHARD STRAUSS’S “Rosenkavalier,” to be revived on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Opera, begins with one of the most vivid depictions of sexual ecstasy in music: an orchestral buildup reaching a climax in a brace of whooping French horns. In order to ...

From DANIEL J. WAKIN, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Susan Graham,  Metropolitan Opera

New York Philharmonic Cancels Planned Trip to Havana

Violinists, bassoonists and timpanists in Cuba? Fine. A bevy of rich Americans? Sorry. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. The New York Philharmonic scratched ...

From DANIEL J. WAKIN, The New York Times,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Charles E. Schumer,  Steve Israel,  Charles B. Rangel,  US State Department,  Barack Obama

Philadelphia Orchestra Announces New Chief

The Philadelphia Orchestra took a major step toward finding a way out of a financial and managerial mess on Wednesday, announcing that it had hired a permanent chief executive after an extended leadership vacuum. The latest on the arts, coverage of ...

From DANIEL J. WAKIN, The New York Times,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Charles Dutoit,  Santiago Calatrava

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