Sunday, March 11, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” was streamlined to make the original opera more accessible and realistic, but we’re left with something slighter.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
A new one-act opera, “A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck,” directed by Francesca Zambello, has its premiere at the Glimmerglass Festival.
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Tyne Daly’s portrayal of Maris Callas in “Master Class” vs. Callas herself on recordings of her Juilliard sessions.
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In “Annie Get Your Gun” at Glimmerglass, the soprano Deborah Voigt brings clear diction, sweetness and sassiness to the title role.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Outdoors on a noisy Friday night on the streets of New York, a young musician happens by a painted piano and does what comes naturally: He plays it.
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Sutton Foster says she wants to be known “as an actress who sings and dances.” But this is far from the way she started off.
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Saturday, April 9, 2011
Michael Tilson Thomas shared the roots of his musicianship and theatrical instincts in “The Thomashefskys,” performed with the New York Philharmonic.
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With the opera "Anna Nicole" opening this week, Anthony Tommasini explores part of London's musical past.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Michael Tilson Thomas, the founder and artistic director of the New World Symphony, just loves the Seikilos epitaph.
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I had no idea that these articles, videos and blog posts would stir up such a lively, informed and passionate online conversation, with, so far, 2,637 comments from readers.
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Music lovers have long been understandably enthralled with Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and their Romantic brethren.
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The sad truth is that until relatively recent decades, women have had severely limited opportunities within all the arts, especially music and, even more, composition.
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Verdi and Wagner were great students of Beethoven, and their operas have symphonic sweep, architectonic integrity and orchestral richness galore. In addition, you cannot discount their endur…
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Though Debussy was born in 1862 and died in 1918, this path-breaker has to be considered a 20th-century giant.
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
In videos and posts on ArtsBeat over the next two weeks Anthony Tommasini will explore the qualities that make a classical composer great, maybe even the best of all time.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Virgil Thomson, who grew up in a Baptist family and was a church organist in his youth, was never susceptible to religion, even as a child. Yet like his student Mr. Rorem, Thomson wrote many…
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I am more sympathetic to the goals behind festivals in general and was drawn into this one, despite reservations.
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