118 stories by "Jean Ballard Terepka"
The program itself was a masterpiece of artistic and theological integrity. Pieces by three composers " contemporary Estonian Arvo Part (b.1935), and Renaissance Englishmen John Sheppard (c.…
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Calling their 2015-2016 season "Cornerstones," C4 is exploring musical and artistic themes that have established the group's identity and excellence duri…
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Launching its twelfth season with a revival of its 2010 production of Tom Cipullo's widely acclaimed "Glory Denied," Chelsea Opera made clear once again …
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Nethsingha's reading of Mozart's Requiem was richly nuanced and widely expressive, and the success of his reading was established within the first three …
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Founded in 2005 and led by Kornel Fekete-Kovacs, trumpeter and composer, the Budapest-based Modern Art Orchestra is a marvel. Its twenty musicians " five…
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Tenor Rufus Muller with American Classical Orchestra and Chorus (Photo credit: Arlette Landestoy) Â The November 2015 presentation by the American Clas…
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The evening consisted of two sets; the first six pieces lasted from 8:00 to 9:05 PM, were then followed by a between-set break of almost an hour for last…
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The American Classical Orchestra and Chorus' recent performance of Georg Philipp Telemann's "Der Tag des Gerichts" (Day of Judgment) realized the very be…
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"Run Time Error," an evening of recent and new works, including both New York and United States premieres composed by Simon Steen-Andersen, who performed…
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With considerable fanfare and extensive advance publicity, Chinese opera singer Zhang Juoding made her American debut at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch T…
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Neglected, ignored and then forgotten, Harry Lawrence Freeman's opera "Voodoo" was brought back to the stage in a compelling production in June, 2015. Th…
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Over a period of six hours, on an early summer afternoon and evening at Symphony Space, twelve choruses gave "mini-concerts" of 15 " 25 minutes, followin…
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St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Chelsea was used to near perfect effect as the setting for all three acts of the opera. "Tosca"'s first act, which does, …
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Now in its fourteenth year, the remarkable Ensemble for the Romantic Century, founded by Eve Wolf, has been presenting musical programs of intellectual c…
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On May 6 and May 7, 2015 at Carnegie Hall, presenting a concert version of Franz Werfel and Kurt Weill's 1937 The Road of Promise, (Der Weg der Verheissu…
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In both concerts, eight artists played and performed together in the sort of flexible, happy collaboration which is possible only among colleagues of eq…
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The program consisted of three fairly short works, an intermission, and then the complete, relatively unknown Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo by Venetian Ba…
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Clyne's music is a combination of electronic and recorded material on the one hand and live performance on the other. In both process and product, Clyne …
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The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc consists of Olav Luksengard Mjelva from Norway (hardanger and octave fiddles), Kevin Henderson from Shetland (fiddle) and Anders…
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Shahid Parvez Khan comes from a long line " seven generations " of musicians and sitar masters. This fact is emphasized in both the musician's own and th…
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The Hindemith was beautifully performed and the second half of the concert was successful. But the first half, the Adams, was not a success. It was not a…
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The Handel and Haydn Society " sometimes called the H + H Society, for contemporaneity's sake " is celebrating its Bicentennial with a number of special …
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As part of their splendid yearlong Bicentennial Celebrations, the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston have been presenting major choral works that have fi…
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Eleonor Sandresky is not the first composer to be attracted to Parthenia's affinity for collaboration with contemporary music-writers. Her new piece, "Jo…
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The pieces chosen by Crawford for this concert represented the very best of the Viennese Classical period: each piece in the evening's repertoire was a u…
