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Review: Lang Lang leads the L.A. Phil on a jazzy jaunt
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 17 days ago
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The famous first bars of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto summon four fortissimo horns to urgently blare a four-note descending figure and then leap. The full Los Angeles Philharmonic punctuated that leap Thursday night about as adamantly as I can
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Conductor Salonen dashes from Frank Zappa to Stravinsky
Helsinki :: Finland | 1 month ago
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Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen of Finland performs on the opening night of the $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles October 23, 2003. Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen dislikes musical
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L.A. Philharmonic fills new season with premieres
Missouri City :: TX :: USA | 3 months ago
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic unveiled its 2013-2014 season schedule during a media luncheon at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Monday, with music director Gustavo Dudamel and president and CEO Deborah Borda presiding. The season is envisioned, in part,
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Dutilleux: Correspondances – review
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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The exquisite sound-world of Henri Dutilleux is one of the most refined in all contemporary music, and is here caught to perfection by his former pupil, Esa-Pekka Salonen . The quirky cello concerto, Tout un monde lointain , based on Baudelaire, was
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Classical review: Philharmonia/Salonen - Esa-Pekka makes his case for Lutoslawski the Great
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Two cellos in crepuscular counterpoint, a creeping melody of tritones and semitones, a lament of baleful intensity from a string orchestra divided into 10 parts. Woven Words, Esa-Pekka Salonen's series of concerts with the Philharmonia to mark the
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Krystian Zimerman, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Royal Festival Hall, London
Budapest :: Hungary | 4 months ago
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Suggested Topics Given that they've slapped their Rest Is Noise' logo on half the coming year's output, it's strange the Southbank Centre should have left it off their series celebrating the centenary of Witold Lutoslawski. This is presumably because,
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A 'Rite of Spring' that Nijinsky and Stravinsky would recognize
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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The morning after "Rite's" opening at the Music Center, a major earthquake struck Southern California. The Whittier Narrows quake, with an epicenter in the San Gabriel Valley, shook buildings in downtown L.A. and could be felt as far away as Las
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Yefim Bronfman, Esa-Pekka Salonen are on same page
Helsinki :: Finland | 4 months ago
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Few musicians have forged a closer professional and personal collaboration than that of conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen and pianist Yefim Bronfman. Their regular appearances together performing concertos from the standard repertory have
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Review: Morlot, Ax and the Philharmonic take a direct route
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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The French-born conductor Ludovic Morlot was a surprise choice to succeed Gerard Schwarz as music director of the Seattle Symphony in 2011 a liaison that appears to be going smoothly. Three months after arriving in Seattle, he subbed for James
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Chereau directs `Elektra' at Aix-en-Provence, Met
Boise :: ID :: USA | 4 months ago
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Patrice Chereau will direct a new staging of Strauss' "Elektra" in a co-production with the French Aix-en-Provence Festival, New York's Metropolitan Opera and several other companies...The festival company said Tuesday it will open at the Grand
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