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2024-04-21 04:27:05
The lively and spacious Isaac Stern Auditorium was the main auditorium of Carnegie Hall. The auditor
2024-04-19 15:23:58
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2024-04-08 14:26:23
Sol Hurok, 2024
[…] Michel Fokine became his clients, as well as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. In 1942, he organized one of the first tours of the American Ballet Theatre. Hurok represented Marian Anderson when working with black singers was not a popular undertaking; he helped to organize Anderson’s famous concert at the Lincoln Memorial, which was broadcast nationwide and made her a household name. Among Hurok’s longest associations were those with Arthur Rubinstein and Isaac Stern. The list of Hurok’s clients read as Who-is-Who in American Music: he worked with the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, violinists Nathan Milstein and Efrem Zimbalist, and later represented the younger stars, Van Cliburn, Jacqueline du Pré, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman. For many years Hurok tried to bring Soviet artists to America. It became possible only after Stalin’s death. The pianists Emil Gilels and violinist David Oistrakh came first, in 1955, then, later, such luminaries […]
2024-03-17 16:39:00
NYO-USA All-Stars. Yannick Nezet-Sequin, conductor; Daniil Trifonov, piano. March 14, 2024.
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall. Balcony. (Seat H121, $44).Nezet-Seguin and Trifonov after Gershwin's Concerto in F.ProgramPiano Concerto in F by George Gershwin (1898-1937).Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60, "Leningrad" by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).Artists: Alumni of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of AmericaI have not had time to do a lot of research on NYO, and the description in the Playbill is quite sketchy. It has been in existence for a little over a decade, the ensemble goes through an intensive practice during the summer, and then does a Carnegie Hall performance and an international tour. For the current year the conductor will be Marin Alsop. Tonight's orchestra consisted of about 100 of the alumni. Many are now members of professional orchestras, some are associated with universities and conservatories, and several are free lance musicians.Both the conductor and the solo pianists are of course superstars in the […]
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