Heartbeat Opera’s Modernized Versions of “Fidelio” and “Don Giovanni”
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Heartbeat Opera is one of a number of smaller opera companies seeking to maintain traditional opera as a vital force in
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New York Philharmonic Dazzles with Schoenberg and Beethoven
by Nick Stubblefield Last weekend, I was privileged to hear Alan Gilbert lead the fine musicians of the New York Philharmonic in a pair of Viennese choral works that, while radically different, shared
Greenwich Village Orchestra Performs Beethoven’s 9th at Washington Irving High School
When Beethoven premiered his Symphony No. 9 in Vienna's Karntnertör Theater in the spring of 1824, it wasn't the clean, polished experience one might expect of the most revered symphony ever
Brooklyn Chamber Music Society Presents Mozart, Beethoven, and Fauré
by Nick Stubblefield On cold, windy Brooklyn nights in January, warming up can be daunting. New Yorkers, like moths to a light, find comfort in small spaces — closer quarters
Classical Thursdays Presents Pianist Francesca Khalifa
by Nick Stubblefield Classical Thursdays, a new concert series hosted in Bedford-Stuyvesant, presented its penultimate show of the year last week with pianist Francesca Khalifa, who performed a well-rounded program of Bach, Beethoven,
New York Philharmonic’s Free Memorial Day Concert at St. John the Divine
I will never forget the first time I attended the New York Philharmonic's annual free Memorial Day Concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It was 2001, and Kurt Masur – who began
A Night of Wind and Dissonance at the NY Philharmonic
by Christina Klessig Tina Fineberg for The New York Times After the concertmaster warmed up New York Philharmonic Thursday night at Avery Fisher Hall, my mind raced as Thomas Adès took the
András Schiff Plays Late Sonatas at Carnegie Hall
After witnessing a panoply of great orchestras fill Carnegie Hall over the past few weeks, the stage seemed positively barren last night, save for a single Steinway grand piano placed
John Adams Conducts the Yale Philharmonia and Brentano Quartet
by Nick Stubblefield Bernstein. Mahler. Stravinsky. These men were all highly-respected composer/conductors found in music history textbooks. Flip to the end of that textbook, and one is likely to find