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October 22, 2017 • 1:12 pm Comments Off on Musical America New Artist of the Month: Seth Parker Woods
Musical America New Artist of the Month: Seth Parker Woods
This afternoon Seth Parker Woods makes his debut at the acclaimed Phillips Collection Sunday concerts series.
Musical America is featuring cellist Seth Parker Woods as New Artist of the Month for October. My profile here.
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October 18, 2017 • 12:25 pm Comments Off on Angel in America
Angel in America
My essay for the Metropolitan Opera on Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel. The Met’s production opens next week and will be the North American premiere:
Not every composer has a knack for finding operatic potential in unlikely sources. But over the past two decades, Thomas Adès has followed his dramaturgical instinct to some of the most spectacular successes in contemporary opera…
Filed under: Metropolitan Opera, new opera, Thomas Adès
October 16, 2017 • 8:17 am Comments Off on Gidon Kremer with Seattle Symphony
Gidon Kremer with Seattle Symphony
Gidon Kremer; © Paolo Pellegrin
My review of Gidon Kremer’s visit with Seattle Symphony:
It’s entirely characteristic of Gidon Kremer to choose a discovery piece rather than a surefire crowd-pleaser for what was a rare appearance in Seattle…
Filed under: Gidon Kremer, Ludovic Morlot, Mendelssohn, review, Schumann, Seattle Symphony
October 15, 2017 • 7:30 am Comments Off on Dmitry Sinkovsky’s Vivaldi Project
Dmitry Sinkovsky’s Vivaldi Project
Dmitry Sinkovsky (Photo credit: Marco Borggreve)
Casting a spell over your audience as a violin virtuoso is remarkable enough. But some musicians are real overachievers.
Filed under: Seattle Symphony, Seattle Times, Uncategorized, Vivaldi
October 13, 2017 • 2:26 pm Comments Off on Sibelius at the Piano
Sibelius at the Piano
“For one thing — and, given the era, it was no small achievement — Sibelius never wrote against the grain of the keyboard. At its best, his style partook of that spare, bleak, motivically stingy counterpoint that nobody south of the Baltic ever seems to write.” –Glenn Gould
October 7, 2017 • 1:44 pm Comments Off on Conrad Tao: Leaving the Comfort Zone
Conrad Tao: Leaving the Comfort Zone
My new profile of pianist and composer Conrad Tao for Steinway is now online:
HIS NAME HASN’T changed, but mentally splicing the twenty-three-year-old Conrad Tao with the child prodigy who first came before the general public more than a decade ago is likely to make you do a double take.
Filed under: Conrad Tao, pianists, profile
October 4, 2017 • 10:24 am Comments Off on The Memorable Women at San Francisco Opera Continue, with La Traviata and Turandot
The Memorable Women at San Francisco Opera Continue, with La Traviata and Turandot
Aurelia Florian as Violetta Valéry in Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera
Part two of my reviews of San Francisco Opera’s fall season is now posted on Musical America:
SAN FRANCISCO—Along with a sensational production of Elektra , San Francisco Opera’s lineup so far this season is spotlighting some of the art form’s most gripping female …
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Filed under: Puccini, review, San Francisco Opera, Verdi
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