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Classical Action’s Up Our Alley 12: bowling bonanza, June 7
Published: May 28, 2010Classical music and performing arts industry professionals will descend on Greenwich Village’s Bowlmor Lanes on Monday, June 7, for what will predictably be an underwhelming display of athleticism at Up Our Alley 12: Classical Action's Annual Benefit Bowling Bonanza.
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Metropolitan Opera Guild’s Urban Voices spring events
Published: May 27, 2010This spring, New York City elementary, middle, and high school students who participated in the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s “Urban Voices” program will showcase their skills by performing choral works for their school communities.
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Susan Graham kicks off summer with return to NY Philharmonic
Published: May 26, 2010Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham returns to the New York Philharmonic for performances of Chausson’s lush Poème de l’amour et de la mer at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis (June 3-5). These New York concerts conclude a season full of drama for the statuesque mezzo – from Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier at New York’s Metropolitan Opera to Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on a West Coast tour and Handel’s Xerxes at Houston Grand Opera.
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Leif Ove Andsnes iTunes Live: Upper West Side out now
Published: May 25, 2010In January, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, EMI recording artist Leif Ove Andsnes became the first classical pianist to record live at an Apple Store event. Leif Ove Andsnes iTunes Live: Upper West Side is available today exclusively on the iTunes Store.
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naïve May 2010 preview
Published: May 24, 2010Armida (1718), which marks the end of Vivaldi’s first Venetian period, has come down to us without the music to Act II. Adopting a practice that was common in Vivaldi’s day, Alessandrini has reconstructed the missing music using already-existing pieces by Vivaldi very carefully chosen with the help of the musicologist Frédéric Delaméa.
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21C Artists To Watch Celebrates First Anniversary
Published: May 23, 2010In the spring of 2009, 21C Media Group launched a new image- and awareness-building program called 21C Artists To Watch for classical musicians on the brink of major careers. Through this initiative, 21C provides regular information about the artists’ activities directly to classical music tastemakers in both the industry and the media. Since its inception only a year ago, the program has developed a selective roster of some of the most noteworthy and promising artists making music today
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Bard SummerScape 2010 Presents Judgment Day
Published: May 22, 2010The eighth annual Bard SummerScape presents Judgment Day (“Der jüngste Tag”), a gripping 1937 drama by Austro-Hungarian Ödön von Horváth, one of the most talented playwrights of his generation. A runaway hit of last fall’s theater season in London, Judgment Dayimplicitly investigates the roots of Nazism among Austria-Hungary’s ordinary working people.
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René Pape’s Wotan reigns “Live from La Scala” on May 26
Published: May 21, 2010While a general theatrical strike caused the cancellation of the original opening night and delayed René Pape’s long-awaited role debut as Wagner’s King of the Gods, Wotan, Pape remarked calmly during his strike-imposed relaxation in a Milan hotel room, “Whenever it happens, it happens. My Wotan is ready to enter the world.”
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eighth blackbird presents Higdon world premiere with Atlanta Symphony
Published: May 20, 2010eighth blackbird spent the first weekend of May in New York City, presenting its “Meanwhile” program at the historic People’s Symphony Concert series and headlining a program of premieres at the innovative Look & Listen Festival; the New York Times’s Steve Smith commented: “Watching eighth blackbird in action … you envied a composer’s opportunity to challenge these versatile, expressive performers.”
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Chanticleer wins 2010 Chorus America Education Outreach Award
Published: May 20, 2010Chorus America, the non-profit service organization for Choral Music, has just announced that Chanticleer has won the 2010 Chorus America Education Outreach Award.