الوسم: New York Philharmonic
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Feeling the Love for “Phil the Hall.”
One of the new initiatives the New York Philharmonic rolled out last season, to coincide with the arrival of music director Jaap van Zweden (and Deborah Borda, the institution's president, as well) was "Phil the Hall," an unambiguously populist gesture in which first responders, volunteers, and other public-service professionals were invited to come to Lincoln…
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Hear, now: Nina C. Young.
Going back to the Yeats poem… I would like the audience to think about Project 19 in that way: that they're going to hear 19 new pieces by people who sometimes don't feel like they can have a voice, who are being given an opportunity to have a voice—and for audiences, once again, to tread…
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Hear, now: Gabriella Smith.
On a gloomy morning in an uncertain world, finding some measure of joyous reassurance in the ecstatic whoops and whorls of Gabriella Smith's 'Carrot Revolution,' played emphatically by @aizuriquartet. https://t.co/tHyqNOJNx3 via @YouTube — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) January 3, 2020 Gabriella Smith is a composer other composers evidently like to recommend, to their listeners and to…
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New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, March 12, 2014
Alan Gilbert, by Karsten Moran for The New York Times New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, March 12, 2014The New York Times, March 14, 2014 In which I describe Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable," like so: "A seamless sequence of vivid episodes, the piece is a craggy MacGuffin that shouldn’t work but…
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New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, November 14, 2013
New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, November 14, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2013 A brilliant local premiere for Christopher Rouse's gorgeous Oboe Concerto by Liang Wang, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, bracketed by rock-solid renditions of Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Also sprach Zarathustra. This was the kind of night…
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Avant Music Festival at the Wild Project, February 16, 2013
Matoaka Little Eagle, Cleek Schrey, Mary MacKenzie and Jessica Schmitz, by Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times Avant Music Festival at the Wild Project, February 16, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2013 Last month I was lucky enough to get to hear a live performance of John Cage's Apartment House 1776 as part of the…
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The New York Philharmonic Contact! at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 21, 2012
Elizabeth Futral, Jayce Ogren and members of the New York Philharmonic, by Richard Termine/The New York Times The New York Philharmonic Contact! at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 21, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2012 A return to old times for the New York Philharmonic's new-music run-out series, at least for one night.…
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The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, November 8, 2012
Glenn Dicterow, Alisa Weilerstein, Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic, by Richard Termine/The New York Times The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, November 8, 2012The New York Times, Nov. 10, 2012 A slightly messy concert, but a consistently exciting one, too. After I posted this review on Facebook, a friend pointed out…
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Garrison Keillor with the New York Philharmonic, October 16, 2012
Garrison Keillor with the New York Philharmonic, by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Garrison Keillor with the New York Philharmonic, October 16, 2012The New York Times, Oct. 18, 2012 Pretty much explains itself, except to say that I was surprised, in my first time seeing Mr. Keillor perform live, by just how little eye…