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Beethoven and Carmina Burana with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Saratoga

As far as I'm concerned, summer's all about seeing music outdoors, whether it's at the beach, in a park, or out of town. Better still if it's in a place […]

Tags: beethoven, carl orff, carmina burana, choral music, classical music, fabio luisi, orchestra, philadelphia orchstra, saratoga, spac, symphony

The Youth of the World Come to Carnegie Hall for World Orchestra Week

NYO-USA at World Orchestra Week, Carnegie Hall, 8/5/24 For most of its history, Carnegie Hall was dark for the summer: a concession to the days before air conditioning when most

Tags: Afghan Youth Orchestra, carnegie hall, classical music, clive gillinson, EUYO, ivan fischer, marin alsop, NYO-USA, orchestra, world orchestra week, wow, youth orchestra

Symphonies, Suites and Götterdämmerung: A Weekend at Tanglewood

by Peter Matthews "It's not the lawn, it's not the great old pines. It's not the blue skies, or sudden thunderstorms, or the mountains. All that is wonderful…But, it's the

Tags: andris nelsons, beethoven, berkshires, bernstein, boston symphony, brahms, bso, christine goerke, classical music, conrad tao, emmanuel ax, gotterdammerung, ives, orchestra, strauss, tanglewood, TMC, wagner

Sound On at the NY Philharmonic with Kwamé Ryan

As the 2023-24 season winds down, the NY Philharmonic held its last Sound On new music concert of the season Friday night with a program of unsettling, multimedia works led by

Tags: classical music, contemporary classical, hannah kendall, kwame ryan, mary kouyoumdjian, michael van der aa, new music, new york philharmonic, orchestra, peter eotvos, sound on

Back Home Again: The NY Philharmonic with Elim Chan and Sol Gabetta

After spending the past six weeks surveying orchestras from Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Vienna, I felt it was high time I took in a concert by our own NY Philharmonic, which

Tags: david geffen hall, elim chan, new york, ny philharmonic, orchestra, philharmonic, sol gabetta

From Wagner to Verdi: Lise Davidsen at Carnegie Hall and the Met Opera

Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times The Met's current revival of Verdi's La Forza Del Destino – which will be broadcast live in HD and on the radio this Saturday

Tags: carnegie hall, lise davidsen, met opera, met orchestra, norwegian, opera, orchestra, singer, soprano, verdi, vienna philharmonic, wagner

The Vienna Philharmonic Plays Music of the Early 20th Century at Carnegie Hall

by Pete Matthews In a world that's sometimes feels it's on the brink of chaos, it's comforting to know that some things can still be relied upon as winter turns

Tags: berg, bruckner, carnegie hall, classical music, franz welser-most, hindemith, mahler, new york, orchestra, philharmonic, ravel, scheonberg, strauss, vienna, vienna philharmonic

A Tale of Two Orchestras: The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Music Center and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Heinz Hall

by Pete Matthews (in Cleveland, OH and Pittsburgh, PA) Despite being several generations removed from their industrial heyday, both Cleveland and Pittsburgh punch well above their weight when it comes

Tags: classical music, cleveland, contemporary music, dieter amman, Dvorak, george benjamin, katherine balch, manfred honeck, oliver knussen, orchestra, pittsburgh, ravel, shostakovich

Boston Symphony Orchestra Brings Opera Back to Carnegie Hall

by Pete Matthews While I will always and forever cherish my summers seeing the Boston Symphony Orchestra up in their summer home at Tanglewood, it's always a treat (not to

Tags: andris nelsons, boston symphony, carnegie hall, kristine opolais, lady macbeth of mtsensk, new york, opera, orchestra, shostakovich