Here’s my pick list for the month for Rhapsody.
Filed under: editor picks, Rhapsody
January 12, 2016 • 12:24 pm
MEMETERIA by Thomas May
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- Berlin
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- Berlioz
- Bernstein
- biography
- Bob Dylan
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- Byron Schenkman
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- CD review
- CD reviews
- cello
- chamber music
- Charles Ives
- Chekhov
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- choral music
- choreography
- Christmas
- Christopher Theofanidis
- city life
- classical art
- classical literature
- commissions
- composers
- concert programming
- conductors
- creativity
- cultural criticism
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- curating
- da Vinci
- dance
- Daniel Barenboim
- David Bowie
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- David Lang
- Debussy
- directors
- Donald Byrd
- Donizetti
- early music
- Easter
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- editor picks
- education
- Edward Albee
- Edward Elgar
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- electronic music
- Emerson String Quartet
- Enescu
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- environment
- Eschenbach
- essay
- ethics
- fashion
- feature
- festivals
- film
- film music
- flute
- Franz Liszt
- Frederic Rzewski
- Frye Museum
- fun
- George Lewis
- Gidon Kremer
- Gluck
- Goethe
- Gramophone
- Grant Gershon
- Gubaidulina
- Gustavo Dudamel
- Handel
- Harold Pinter
- Haydn
- Hölderlin
- health
- health/illness
- Henri Dutilleux
- history
- holiday
- Holocaust
- humor
- instruments
- interview
- Ives
- Jake Heggie
- James Bond
- James Ehnes
- jazz
- Jennifer Higdon
- John Adams
- John Corigliano
- John Luther Adams
- Jon Vickers
- Jordi Savall
- journalism
- Juilliard
- Julia Wolfe
- Kancheli
- Kate Lindsey
- Kurtág
- language
- languages
- Latin
- Lawrence Brownlee
- League of American Orchestras
- Leoš Janáček
- Lessing
- libraries
- librettists
- lieder
- Ligeti
- Lincoln Center
- linguistics
- literary criticism
- literature
- Los Angeles Master Chorale
- Los Angeles Opera
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Lou Harrison
- Lucerne Festival
- Luciano Berio
- Ludovic Morlot
- Mahler
- Mark Campbell
- Mark Morris
- Martha Argerich
- Martinů
- Mason Bates
- Maurice Ravel
- Maxim Gorki Theater
- media
- Melville
- memorial
- Mendelssohn
- Metropolitan Museum
- Metropolitan Opera
- Meyerbeer
- Michael Tilson Thomas
- Milton
- Minnesota Opera
- miscellaneous
- modernism
- modernist composers
- Mohammed Fairouz
- Monteverdi
- Morten Lauridsen
- Mozart
- music criticism
- music festivals
- music history
- music news
- Music of Remembrance
- music writers
- musical
- Musical America
- musical oddities
- musical research
- musical travels
- musicals
- National Symphony
- National Symphony Orchestra
- nature
- new music
- new music essay
- new opera
- New York City Opera
- New York Philharmonic
- Nico Muhly
- novelists
- obituary
- Ojai Festival
- Olga Neuwirth
- Oliver Sacks
- Olivier Messiaen
- On the Boards
- opera
- opera companies
- oratorio
- orchestras
- organ
- Oscar Wilde
- Pacific MusicWorks
- painters
- painting
- Patti Smith
- percussion
- performance
- Peter Sellars
- Philip Glass
- philosophy
- photography
- pianists
- piano
- Pierre Boulez
- Pierre Boulez Saal
- playlist
- playwrights
- poem
- poetry
- Portland Opera
- preview
- Prince
- profile
- program notes
- programming
- programming innovation
- Prokofiev
- Proust
- psychology
- publishers
- Puccini
- Rachmaninoff
- Rameau
- recording industry
- religion
- Renaissance music
- requiem
- review
- Rhapsody
- Richard Strauss
- Ring cycle
- Rossini
- Runnicles
- Saariaho
- sacred music
- Salonen
- Samuel Beckett
- San Francisco Opera
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- Schumann
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- science news
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- season programming
- Seattle Chamber Music Society
- Seattle Opera
- Seattle Pro Musica
- Seattle Public Library
- Seattle Symphony
- Seattle Times
- Shakespeare
- Shostakovich
- Shostakovich chamber music
- Sibelius
- silence
- singers
- social commitments
- social criticism
- sociology
- Spectrum Dance
- spirituality
- Spoleto Festival USA
- Staatsoper Berlin
- Stephen Stubbs
- Steve Reich
- Steven Stucky
- Strad
- Strauss
- Stravinsky
- string quartet
- Strings
- stupid ideas
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- symphonies
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- Tchaikovsky
- technology
- Tennessee Williams
- theater
- themes
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- Thomas Dausgaard
- thought to ponder
- Titian
- Tobias Picker
- tragedy
- travel
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- urban planning
- Ursula Mamlok
- Vanguard Seattle
- Vaughan Williams
- Verdi
- video art
- Vijay Iyer
- violinists
- Virgil
- visual art
- Vivaldi
- vocal music
- Volksbühne
- Wagner
- Walt Whitman
- Washington Post
- White Light Festival
- William Bolcom
- women composers
- writers
- WTF
- Yeats
- Yo-Yo Ma
- youth
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- aesthetics
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- American literature
- American music
- American opera
- András Keller
- Andris Nelsons
- Andy Warhol
- animal behavior
- anniversary
- architecture
- art
- art exhibition
- art history
- Arthur Miller
- artist profile
- arts leaders
- Arvo Pärt
- Aspen
- Aspen Music Festival
- Auden
- audiences
- August Wilson
- avant-garde
- awards
- Bach
- Bach family
- ballet
- Baroque opera
- Bartók
- Bayerische Staatsoper
- Bayreuth Festival
- BBC Proms
- Beethoven
- bel canto
- Berlin
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Berlioz
- Bernstein
- biography
- Bob Dylan
- book news
- book recs
- books
- Boston Symphony
- Brahms
- Brecht
- Britten
- Bryce Dessner
- Buddhism
- Byron Schenkman
- Calixto Bieito
- canards
- Carnegie Hall
- CD review
- CD reviews
- cello
- chamber music
- Charles Ives
- Chekhov
- Chopin
- choral music
- choreography
- Christmas
- Christopher Theofanidis
- city life
- classical art
- classical literature
- commissions
- composers
- concert programming
- conductors
- creativity
- cultural criticism
- cultural history
- cultural news
- culture news
- curating
- da Vinci
- dance
- Daniel Barenboim
- David Bowie
- David del Tredici
- David Lang
- Debussy
- directors
- Donald Byrd
- Donizetti
- early music
- Easter
- Edinburgh International Festival
- editor picks
- education
- Edward Albee
- Edward Elgar
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- electronic music
- Emerson String Quartet
- Enescu
- Enlightenment
- environment
- Eschenbach
- essay
- ethics
- fashion
- feature
- festivals
- film
- film music
- flute
- Franz Liszt
- Frederic Rzewski
- Frye Museum
- fun
- George Lewis
- Gidon Kremer
- Gluck
- Goethe
- Gramophone
- Grant Gershon
- Gubaidulina
- Gustavo Dudamel
- Handel
- Harold Pinter
- Haydn
- Hölderlin
- health
- health/illness
- Henri Dutilleux
- history
- holiday
- Holocaust
- humor
- instruments
- interview
- Ives
- Jake Heggie
- James Bond
- James Ehnes
- jazz
- Jennifer Higdon
- John Adams
- John Corigliano
- John Luther Adams
- Jon Vickers
- Jordi Savall
- journalism
- Juilliard
- Julia Wolfe
- Kancheli
- Kate Lindsey
- Kurtág
- language
- languages
- Latin
- Lawrence Brownlee
- League of American Orchestras
- Leoš Janáček
- Lessing
- libraries
- librettists
- lieder
- Ligeti
- Lincoln Center
- linguistics
- literary criticism
- literature
- Los Angeles Master Chorale
- Los Angeles Opera
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Lou Harrison
- Lucerne Festival
- Luciano Berio
- Ludovic Morlot
- Mahler
- Mark Campbell
- Mark Morris
- Martha Argerich
- Martinů
- Mason Bates
- Maurice Ravel
- Maxim Gorki Theater
- media
- Melville
- memorial
- Mendelssohn
- Metropolitan Museum
- Metropolitan Opera
- Meyerbeer
- Michael Tilson Thomas
- Milton
- Minnesota Opera
- miscellaneous
- modernism
- modernist composers
- Mohammed Fairouz
- Monteverdi
- Morten Lauridsen
- Mozart
- music criticism
- music festivals
- music history
- music news
- Music of Remembrance
- music writers
- musical
- Musical America
- musical oddities
- musical research
- musical travels
- musicals
- National Symphony
- National Symphony Orchestra
- nature
- new music
- new music essay
- new opera
- New York City Opera
- New York Philharmonic
- Nico Muhly
- novelists
- obituary
- Ojai Festival
- Olga Neuwirth
- Oliver Sacks
- Olivier Messiaen
- On the Boards
- opera
- opera companies
- oratorio
- orchestras
- organ
- Oscar Wilde
- Pacific MusicWorks
- painters
- painting
- Patti Smith
- percussion
- performance
- Peter Sellars
- Philip Glass
- philosophy
- photography
- pianists
- piano
- Pierre Boulez
- Pierre Boulez Saal
- playlist
- playwrights
- poem
- poetry
- Portland Opera
- preview
- Prince
- profile
- program notes
- programming
- programming innovation
- Prokofiev
- Proust
- psychology
- publishers
- Puccini
- Rachmaninoff
- Rameau
- recording industry
- religion
- Renaissance music
- requiem
- review
- Rhapsody
- Richard Strauss
- Ring cycle
- Rossini
- Runnicles
- Saariaho
- sacred music
- Salonen
- Samuel Beckett
- San Francisco Opera
- San Francisco Symphony
- Santa Fe Opera
- Schaubühne
- Schoenberg
- Schubert
- Schumann
- science
- science news
- sculpture
- season programming
- Seattle Chamber Music Society
- Seattle Opera
- Seattle Pro Musica
- Seattle Public Library
- Seattle Symphony
- Seattle Times
- Shakespeare
- Shostakovich
- Shostakovich chamber music
- Sibelius
- silence
- singers
- social commitments
- social criticism
- sociology
- Spectrum Dance
- spirituality
- Spoleto Festival USA
- Staatsoper Berlin
- Stephen Stubbs
- Steve Reich
- Steven Stucky
- Strad
- Strauss
- Stravinsky
- string quartet
- Strings
- stupid ideas
- style
- symphonies
- Tarik O'Regan
- Tchaikovsky
- technology
- Tennessee Williams
- theater
- themes
- Thielemann
- Thomas Dausgaard
- thought to ponder
- Titian
- Tobias Picker
- tragedy
- travel
- Twitterverse
- unanswered questions
- Uncategorized
- University of Washington
- urban planning
- Ursula Mamlok
- Vanguard Seattle
- Vaughan Williams
- Verdi
- video art
- Vijay Iyer
- violinists
- Virgil
- visual art
- Vivaldi
- vocal music
- Volksbühne
- Wagner
- Walt Whitman
- Washington Post
- White Light Festival
- William Bolcom
- women composers
- writers
- WTF
- Yeats
- Yo-Yo Ma
- youth
