http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/bernard_hollandArticles by BERNARD HOLLAND, aggregated by daylife.comen-usMon, 23 Nov 2009 17:54:08 GMTMon, 23 Nov 2009 17:54:08 GMTDaylife Betaken@daylife.comken@daylife.comhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/arts/music/20frie.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssWhen 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 ...Tue, 20 May 2008 03:43:25 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/arts/music/20frie.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMitsuko UchidaBenny GoodmanUnited NationsMartin Frosthttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/arts/music/06yale.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss“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 ...Tue, 06 May 2008 03:58:37 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/arts/music/06yale.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rsshttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/arts/music/03norm.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssJessye 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 ...Sat, 03 May 2008 03:09:42 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/arts/music/03norm.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssJessye NormanHarold ArlenMichel LegrandRichard DanielpourKurt Weillhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/arts/music/01sold.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssCertain 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 ...Thu, 01 May 2008 04:11:20 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/arts/music/01sold.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssAlan AldaNoah WyleOgden NashAlan Kayhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/arts/music/28bryn.html?ex=1367121600&en=a54bc45d9d5f5470&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssBryn 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: ...Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:14:15 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/arts/music/28bryn.html?ex=1367121600&en=a54bc45d9d5f5470&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssBryn TerfelMalcolm MartineauRalph Vaughan WilliamsJohn IrelandJohn Masefieldhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/arts/26denk.html?ex=1366948800&en=25223cc1046377f8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssFor 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 ...Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:20:40 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/arts/26denk.html?ex=1366948800&en=25223cc1046377f8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssIgor Stravinskyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/music/25town.html?ex=1366862400&en=7077c910c8e8b9bd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssModesty 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 ...Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:01:35 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/music/25town.html?ex=1366862400&en=7077c910c8e8b9bd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThornton WilderAaron CoplandLeonard Bernsteinhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/arts/music/21armo.html?ex=1366516800&en=96de9b00f6877858&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe 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 ...Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:46:27 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/arts/music/21armo.html?ex=1366516800&en=96de9b00f6877858&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssAldous Huxleyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/arts/music/16mutt.html?ex=1366084800&en=fcf206a354dc30b6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssFor 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 ...Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:11:18 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/arts/music/16mutt.html?ex=1366084800&en=fcf206a354dc30b6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssIsaac Sternhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/arts/music/15batt.html?ex=1365998400&en=c07383251c3aa7b1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssI 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 ...Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:10:27 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/arts/music/15batt.html?ex=1365998400&en=c07383251c3aa7b1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssKathleen BattleJoseph Volpe