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May 28, 2013 There may be some systemic problems within the field of classical music. But now and then something happens that makes you feel proud of institutions and the music-loving public. One such event is the New York Philharmonic's annual free
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May 26, 2013 The long battle to have early and Baroque music played on accurate instruments and in accurate style has been largely won. Even if symphony orchestras still don't sound precisely like period bands when they play Bach or Handel, they
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Music Review Finding Glories in Bruckner Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times New York Philharmonic: Alan Gilbert conducting the orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall. Published: April 25, 2013 I am just old enough to remember a time when Bruckner and Mahler
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To some, Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) is best known as a minor planet spinning around the sun that was Beethoven. He studied with the older composer from 1801-1805 and we have Ries to thank for the tale of Beethoven defacing the name of Napoleon on the
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Symphonies 2 & 3 (London Symphony Orchestra, Ode Records) Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra. Our concert halls are not exactly flooded with the music of Carl Nielsen (1865-1931). In fact, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's 2007
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The Philharmonic and Chorale take on the epic masterpiece Fans of Bruce Willis and his "Die Hard" series now have a reason to go hear some classical music this weekend. The Boise Philharmonic will perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with the Master
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Topics A couple of years ago, I went on a magical misery tour. My brother David and I set out on a road trip across Europe, stopping at all the important sites where, well, terrible things happened to our people...So I suppose we saw this as a chance
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But these icons of the repertoire, one from the Classical era and the other Romantic, were preceded by what appeared at first to be an odd programming choice. Toru Takemitsu's How Slow the Wind (1991) is eleven-minute tone poem in one movement that
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the world's top orchestras, will perform in Taiwan for the first time in January, bringing with them works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and other masters. Led by Italian conductor Riccardo Muti, the
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Andrew Clements After cancelling a performance last week with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra of Bruckner's vast Eighth Symphony, Andris Nelsons seemed back to his most dynamic form for the latest instalment of his Symphony Hall Beethoven
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