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Two Quartets

12/10/08, 7:30pm: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, performed by the Sofia Ensemble, Chelsea Art Museum 12/10/08, 9:15pm Brooklyn Rider performing Finnish and Armenian folk tunes, as well as

Elliott: 100

There have been centenarian composers before Elliott Carter: Irving Berlin, Nicolas Slonimsky, Leo Ornstein. But, none were still writing into their 100th year, nor have any of them had anything

Olivier: 100

For those looking to hear Messiaen's music in New York tonight, the Church of the Ascension on 5th Ave and 10th St. has the Quartet for the End of Time

Seiji

I have a hard time grasping that the last time I saw Seiji Ozawa was six years ago at Tanglewood, in his final concert as Music Director of the Boston

Road Trip

I’m off to Beantown to attend this weekend’s Boston Symphony concerts, which mark Seiji Ozawa’s first appearances at Symphony Hall since his departure in 2002 after 29 years as the

Outside Time

"I offer to you all the transports of love and joy, the ecstasies, raptures, revelations and heavenly visions of all the holy saints…"  St. Thomas Aquinas (from Livre du Saint Sacrament)

Love Those Lists

I'm not typically a fan of lists, but Gramophone's newly-released list of the Top 20 orchestras is the world is worth a gander, if only for pure amusement. The top

The First MTV

Take your pick: Lenny as New Yorker. Lenny as Social Activist. Lenny as TV Star. Carnegie's Bernstein Discovery Day had all three on Saturday. And, they could have easily squeezed in half-a-dozen more

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