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| Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Restless Composer, Desperate Concerto |
(Sat, 22 Nov 2008)
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The New York Philharmonic, led by Lorin Maazel, performed works from Bach, Beethoven and the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki on Thursday at Avery Fisher Hall.
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| Music Review | Gil Shaham: Evening of Showpieces, and One Unscripted Twist |
(Sat, 22 Nov 2008)
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The concert by the violinist Gil Shaham at the Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center on Thursday included tributes to a 19th century master and a surprise for Mr. Shaham.
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| Arts, Briefly: Madonna’s Divorce Is Nearly Final |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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On Friday, Madonna, the singer, and Guy Ritchie, the film director, were granted a preliminary decree of divorce by a London court.
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| Arts, Briefly: Fire Postpones Chamber Concert |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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People who turned up for a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Thursday night ended up cooling their heels outside.
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| A Piece of Cleveland With a New York Accent |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Hundreds of artifacts are being prepared for the opening on Tuesday of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC, a $9 million branch of the Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
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| Music: How Axl Rose Spent All That Time |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Chinese Democracy” is the Titanic ship of rock albums: It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era.
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| Music Review | MATA Interval: Pop-Classical Intersections, in Tune With Any Season |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The bimonthly series tend to feature young composers who disregard the classical-pop divide. Wednesday’s installment was a showcase for the violist Nadia Sirota and the guitarist Andrew McKenna Lee.
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| Music Review | The Academy Is ...: Armed With Guitar and Emotions |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The band seamlessly connected the dots between emo and early 1980s soft-rock in their show at the Roseland Ballroom on Wednesday.
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| Music Review | Hinder: Bad Boys, but Not Afraid to Show Their Sensitive Side |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The multimillion-selling band from Oklahoma performed an entertaining set of blues rock and power ballads to the willing crowd at the Nokia Theater on Wednesday.
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| Music Review: Making Girls Dance: All in a Night’s Work |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Girl Talk set off instant pandemonium as its set began at Terminal 5.
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| Irving Gertz, Composer for Monsters of the Movies, Dies at 93 |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Mr. Gertz was a prolific though often uncredited B-movie composer whose melodies haunt a spate of pictures with words like “Hell,” “Thing” and “Creature” in the titles.
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| Arts, Briefly: Michael Jackson, Live in Court |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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A British court that nearly had to settle for video testimony from Michael Jackson will instead receive him in person.
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| Music Review | 'Fugitives': Tracking Composers on the Run |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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For Steven Blier, a pianist and the artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, Alexander Zemlinsky’s “Meeraugen” suggested a concert.
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| Turnaround Specialist Talks of City Opera Plans |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Even before the full board of New York City Opera learned that its proposed savior, Gerard Mortier, was saying goodbye, its chairwoman had turned to a man known in the arts as a turnaround specialist.
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| Music Review | Richard Egarr: From Manuscript’s Curlicues, a Tuning Scheme |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The harpsichordist Richard Egarr’s performance of Book I at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday evening addressed what Bach meant by well tempered.
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| Music Review: Proudly Strutting, Defying Hostile Universe |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Chita Rivera, 75, is the most commanding physical presence ever to grace the tiny platform stage of Feinstein’s.
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| Music Patron Is Convicted of Fraud |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.
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| Jody Reynolds, 75, Rockabilly Singer, Is Dead |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Mr. Reynolds had a single hit, “Endless Sleep,” which ushered in a wave of tragic teenage pop songs in the 1950s.
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| Music Review | Kirov Orchestra and Chorus: Prokofiev Did Relish a Good Epic |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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The orchestra, led by Valery Gergiev, did rough justice to music full of loose and rough edges in its performance of works by Prokofiev at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday.
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| Music Review | Warsaw Philharmonic: Among the Familiar, Hidden Treasure From Poland |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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The latest orchestra to have its mettle tried by the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was the Warsaw Philharmonic.
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| Music Review | Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Navigating Bernstein With Loose-Limbed Vigor |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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As part of Israel’s 60th-anniversary celebration, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra visited Carnegie Hall on Sunday and Monday with the young Venezuelan firebrand Gustavo Dudamel on the podium.
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| Music Review | Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Maryinsky Theater: A Brisk Prokofiev Comedy, Without Opera Heroics |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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A concert performance by the conductor Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Maryinsky Theater at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday was a reminder that Prokofiev’s “Love for Three Oranges” is endlessly inventive.
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| Music Review | American Composers Orchestra: A Wide-Ranging Evening With Cymbals and Dog Whistles |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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During a return engagement on Friday night Jeffrey Milarsky authoritatively conducted the American Composers Orchestra in five disparate works, including three commissioned premieres.
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| Music Review | Ani and Ida Kavafian: Violin Duo Celebrating Milestone, Helped by Friends and Disciples |
(Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center hosted a concert in honor of the violinist sisters Ani and Ida Kavafian, who made their Carnegie Hall debut as a duo 25 years ago.
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| Music Review | Andrea Marcovicci: Cheek to Cheek With Fred Astaire and Other Hollywood Royalty |
(Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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Andrea Marcovicci’s new show, “Marcovicci Sings Movies II,” at the Oak Room, is an extensively altered and improved revival of one she performed there 21 years ago.
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| Music Review: A Dark and Ghostly Work, Bereft of High Spirits |
(Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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The violinist Vadim Repin played Prokofiev’s spooky violin scales at the end of the first movement in his Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor with eerie, barely audible pianissimos during a performance with the pianist Nikolai Lugansky.
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| Music Review | Garrick Ohlsson: Pianist Celebrates Scriabin as Angular Impressionist |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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The pianist Garrick Ohlsson brought fingers, fortitude and a freewheeling imagination to his all-Scriabin recital on Saturday evening at the 92nd Street Y.
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| Totally Over: Last Squeals for ‘TRL’ |
(Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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The afternoon video show, which ended Sunday after being an MTV flagship for 10 years, was just a little too 20th-century to survive the YouTube age.
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| Music Review | Matt Haimovitz: Plug in Cello, Add D.J. and Club, Then Stir |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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The cellist Matt Haimovitz, no stranger to offbeat spaces, played at Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday.
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| Critics’ Choice: New CDs |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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Nickelback seems eager to shed at least a little of its politeness on “Dark Horse,” its sixth album — by far its loosest and most jagged in years.
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| Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Philharmonic Past Speaks to Its Future |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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Alan Gilbert led the New York Philharmonic through suites from “On the Waterfront” and “West Side Story” on Friday as part of an ongoing festival honoring Leonard Bernstein.
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| Music Review | 'Things to Ruin': Cynicism, Too, Needs a Laureate to Give It Some Lyrical Moments |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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“Things to Ruin,” by theater composer Joe Iconis, isn’t a political revue per se, but its 19 songs express a fed-up attitude in the final days of the Bush era.
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| Arts, Briefly: These Guitars Are Not Gently Weeping |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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A new track from the Beatles? Paul McCartney hopes to unleash “Carnival of Light,” a 14-minute experimental Beatles track recorded in 1967 but never released.
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| Arts, Briefly: Melee at Music Awards |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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A 27-year-old man was in critical condition on Sunday after being stabbed when a brawl broke out at the sixth annual Urban Music Awards ceremony at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night.
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| Arts, Briefly: Uneasy Lies the Head |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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“I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade,” the rapper Kanye West said in an interview with The Associated Press.
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| Arts, Briefly: Town Hall Announces Its New Season |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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A folk fiddler, a salsa star and a bossa nova singer are among the headliners scheduled for the 2009 season at Town Hall, which will begin Jan. 23.
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| Music: Pop Music’s Dreamgirl Awakens Her Earthy Side |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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Beyoncé Knowles on her study of the life of Etta James and how it altered the direction of her new album.
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| Music: Sound of Woodwinds, Calling for Change |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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A quintet with twin goals: to lift the presence of blacks and Hispanics in classical music and to expand the repertory for woodwind quintets.
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| Playlist: Savvy Jazz Veterans and Fiery Rock Newcomers |
(Fri, 14 Nov 2008)
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Reviews of releases by Sonny Rollins, James Moody and Hank Jones, White Denim, Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, and Bill Carrothers.
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| Peter Levinson, Publicist and Biographer of Jazz Greats, Is Dead at 74 |
(Sun, 16 Nov 2008)
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Mr. Levinson, a music publicist, parlayed his close familiarity with jazz personalities into rich and sometimes intimate biographies of them.
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| Music Review | 'Marie Galante': A Woman Wronged in Old Tale by Weill |
(Fri, 14 Nov 2008)
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On Thursday night the enterprising Opéra Français de New York presented an elaborate and overdue production of Kurt Weill’s “Marie Galante,” its American premiere, at Gould Hall.
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| Music Review | Don Byron: Celebrating 50 Years With Four Parties |
(Sat, 15 Nov 2008)
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Don Byron, a clarinet virtuoso, is performing with a different ensemble every night for the Jazz Standard’s four-night celebration of his 50th birthday.
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| Arts, Briefly: Music Director Departs Columbus Symphony |
(Sat, 15 Nov 2008)
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Columbus Symphony Orchestra announced on Thursday that Junichi Hirokami, its music director, would be moving on, calling it a mutual decision.
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| Juanes, the Colombian Rocker, Sweeps the Major Awards at the Latin Grammys |
(Fri, 14 Nov 2008)
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Juanes picked up awards for Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Album, Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the ceremony on Thursday.
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| Music Review | AC/DC: Rock of a Certain Age, Complete With Inflatable Doll |
(Fri, 14 Nov 2008)
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At Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, the 35-year-old band remained committedly lowbrow with its flamboyant stagings and remarkably familiar-sounding new songs.
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| Seattle Bids Tuba Man a Sad Goodbye |
(Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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More than 1,000 people attended a memorial service for Edward Scott McMichael, a busker with perfect pitch and an improbable horn whom most people in Seattle knew as Tuba Man.
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| Music Review | Gil Shaham: Energy From a Composer Can Fuel a Player’s Flight |
(Fri, 14 Nov 2008)
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The violinist Gil Shaham is ideally suited to convey the energetic optimism of Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto, which he performed with the New York Philharmonic on Wednesday.
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| Music Review | 'Kafka Fragments': When Everyday Actions Become Existential Events |
(Fri, 14 Nov 2008)
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Dawn Upshaw whispers, shrieks and sings with ravishing warmth, and she moves easily from the mundane to the comic to sheer terror.
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| Music Review | Baby Jane Dexter: Songs of Speculation, Found in Unlikely Places |
(Fri, 14 Nov 2008)
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When belting in the expansive chest voice that dominated Wednesday’s show at the Metropolitan Room, Baby Jane Dexter exerted a formidable command.
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| Music Review | Juilliard School: One-Act Operas Fashioned Into a Marital Morality Tale |
(Fri, 14 Nov 2008)
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The conductor James Conlon continues to find ways to revitalize programming at the Juilliard School with “Trilogy,” a piece fashioned from little-known one-act works, two Russian and one German.
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| C.M.A. Again Picks Chesney as Entertainer of the Year |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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For the fourth time, the Country Music Association’s gave its top award to Kenny Chesney on Wednesday.
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| Music Review | Brian Stokes Mitchell: Did Someone Say an Impossible Dream? Not Anymore |
(Wed, 12 Nov 2008)
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Brian Stokes Mitchell seized the moment on Tuesday evening when he opened a too-short five-night engagement at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
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| Mitch Mitchell Dies at 62; Drummer for Jimi Hendrix |
(Thu, 13 Nov 2008)
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Mr. Mitchell, a jazzy and versatile drummer, was one of two Englishmen in the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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| Music Review | Jeremy Denk: Soul Mates on the Wild Side: Transcendental Ives and Mavericky Beethoven |
(Thu, 13 Nov 2008)
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In his exciting sold-out recital at Zankel Hall on Tuesday night the pianist Jeremy Denk paired Charles Ives’s “Concord” Sonata and Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata.
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| Now That’s What I Call Marketing: Pop Hits and More |
(Wed, 12 Nov 2008)
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“Now That’s What I Call Music!” has been a reliable blockbuster for 10 years by sticking to a simple, recognizable brand.
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Category: Recordings and Downloads (Audio) |
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| Music Review | Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater: Velvet Passion for Prokofiev in a Deftly Paced ‘Romeo’ |
(Wed, 12 Nov 2008)
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Prokofiev, like Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, is in these musicians’ fingers and souls, and their performance of “Romeo and Juliet” could hardly have been more passionate or vividly characterized.
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| Music Review | David (Honeyboy) Edwards: Some Well-Aged Blues From the Mississippi Delta |
(Thu, 13 Nov 2008)
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David (Honeyboy) Edwards’s 11-song, half-electric, half-acoustic set at the B. B. King Blues Club and Grill on Monday was a mix of traditional covers and original compositions.
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| Music Review | 'Music in Exile': Piano Works by Those Who Escaped the Nazis |
(Thu, 13 Nov 2008)
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The series, “Music in Exile: Émigré Composers of the 1930s,” which opened on Sunday, focuses mostly on composers who escaped to Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States during the Nazi era.
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| Music Review | Boz Scaggs: A Voice With Timbre and Topography |
(Wed, 12 Nov 2008)
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A tablespoon of blues and two teaspoons each of soft-rock, jazz and traditional pop: that recipe only begins to describe the stylistic ingredients in the music of Boz Scaggs, who opened at the Blue Note on Monday.
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| An Appraisal: Taking Africa With Her to the World |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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To be the voice of a nation speaking to the wider world is a tough mission for any performer. To be the voice of an entire continent is exponentially more difficult. Both were mantles that the South African singer Miriam Makeba took on willingly and forcefully.
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| Music Review | Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater: When Prokofiev’s Scores Are Players’ Native Tongue |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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On Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall, Valery Gergiev conducted the Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater in the first of four programs devoted to theatrical works of Prokofiev.
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| Music Review | Met Chamber Ensemble: Musical Tent Big Enough for a Mix of Styles |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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It must be great fun for James Levine to concoct the programs he presents with the Met Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall.
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| Music Review | Conor Oberst: A Singer’s Enthusiasm Now Reigns Where Emotion Once Ruled |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes shimmied intensely alongside his other group, the Mystic Valley Band, at Terminal 5 on Sunday, while performing material from his recent solo album.
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| Music Review | Wenge Musica BCBG: Congolese Soukous Beats, Spirited and Dance-Friendly |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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Wenge Musica BCBG, the acclaimed Congolese soukous band, brought its long, intricate songs, elaborate drumming and wall of vocals to the Fillmore New York on Saturday night.
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| Music Review: The Guarneri String Quartet and The Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert: Music in Review |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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Reviews of performances by the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert and the Guarneri String Quartet.
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| Music Review: A Big Electronic Party in Celebration of Survival |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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Psychic TV’s show at Club Europa on Sunday night, its first performance since Lady Jaye Breyer’s death, was suffused with sweetness and good feeling.
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| Music Review | 'La Damnation de Faust': Between Hell and Heaven, a World of Morphing Imagery |
(Mon, 10 Nov 2008)
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The video wizardry on stage should not obscure the big news of the Metropolitan Opera’s “La Damnation de Faust”: the magnificent performances of the opera and chorus.
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| Miriam Makeba, 76, Singer and Activist, Dies |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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Ms. Makeba was a South African singer whose voice stirred hopes of freedom in her own country even though her music was formally banned by the apartheid authorities she struggled against.
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| Alas, Poor City Opera: Without Galvanizing Director-to-Be, What Next? |
(Mon, 10 Nov 2008)
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With the departure of its director, Gerard Mortier, and finances in turmoil, the New York City Opera has scrapped Mr. Mortier’s production plans and begun the search for a new leader.
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| Critics’ Choice: New CDs |
(Sun, 09 Nov 2008)
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Reviews of new albums by T-Pain, David Archuleta, Deborah Cox and Butch Walker.
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