Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: All-Beethoven Program
by Robert Leeper Ruby Washington for the New York Times Programs pairing Beethoven with the work of a contemporary composer have become increasingly common of late, and with the prevalence
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Mostly Mozart Lights Up The New York Summer
by James Rosenfield Osmo Vanska, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra (Photo: New York Times) A dozen years ago, Mostly Mozart had become moribund, a snooze through the sultry summer months. Then, Louis Langree
FREE TICKETS: IDRS + Circles and Lines Present New Music at SubCulture (CONTEST ENDED)
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NOTE: This contest has ended. This Thursday, July 24 at 8:00 p.m., composer-pianist Brittany Anjou leads the second annual tribute to Portishead's Roseland NYC Live album at (le) poisson rouge. The epic event includes a
The National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America Debuts at Carnegie Hall
Whether it's a performance of contemporary music in South Beach or Wagner in the Berkshires, I realized long ago that young musicians can more than hold their own in a concert setting,
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Lorin as Composer
There are lots of great interviews with Lorin Maazel online, but this one – shot by the Philharmonia Orchestra while riding the London Eye – gets into his life as
The Passenger at the Park Avenue Armory
by Robert Leeper Photo Credit: Stephanie Berger The New York premiere of Mieczyslaws Weinberg's "The Passenger" came to the Park Avenue Armory last week, courtesy of the Houston Grand Opera and
One More for Lorin
For those who never got to see Lorin Maazel up close with the NY Phil, here's a bit from a 2008 concert in Japan, on the same tour that brought