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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-02-18 10:38:00
Was this Philip Glass’s response to Gruppen?
Paul Pelkonen has attended the first New York performance in 38 years of Music With Changing Parts. From his review: This was the New York premiere of the revised version of Mr. Glass’ score, a work that was written five years before Glass and Robert Wilson detonated Einstein on the Beach. It stands alone in the vast […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-06-07 00:02:58
Just in: Woman ‘drops dead’ at New York Philharmonic concert
The critic Paul Pelkonen informs us that an elderly woman suffered apparent cardiac arrest at the start of the second half of a New York Philharmonic matinee concert on Friday. There has been no external corroboration of the death. Here is Paul’s eyewitness account: When she collapsed, the orchestra was already seated to play the second half of the program, awaiting the arrival of the concertmaster and Mr. Kahane. She was on the west side (house left) of Avery Fisher Hall in the Orchestra seating, when she fell to the floor at the end of the row. An usher was quick to summon the house manager and a little later, Lincoln Center Security. An unidentified party administered CPR, helped and relieved by two strong men who aided with the gruelling task of heart massage. They administered chest compressions and rescue breaths, working steadily until EMTs arrived with a wheeled stretcher. The […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-05-15 15:55:38
Yannick sits on Carnegie stage and stares down latecomers
Paul Pelkonen has the first review from last night’s Philadelphia concert: At the start of the second half, Mr. Nézet-Séguin prepared to give the downbeat for the first solemn notes of the Symphony No. 3 by Serge Rachmaninoff. Then, stragglers entered Stern Auditorium, making for their seats. He stopped, turned, and regarded them for a moment. Then, he sat down on the side of the podium, knees drawn under his chin like a little boy on the stairs. As the latecomers trickled in, the audience muttered, murmured, laughed and applauded his decision. He stood up, looked behind him and sat down on the other side of the podium. Finally, he rose and got to work. As the first notes played, two more people tottered to their seats. Those notes were worth the wait. Read the full review here.
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