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2023-10-04 18:05:00
New York Philharmonic. Jaap van Zweden, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin. September 30, 2023.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. (Orchestra 1, Seat R101, $90.25)ProgramThe Elements (2023) by Puts, Meyer, Heggie, Higdon and Montgomery.Third Symphony (1944-46) by Copland (1900-90).Concertmaster and Conducting shaking hands after the concert. This would be van Zweden's last year as Music Director of New York Philharmonic.First, we didn't get to Lincoln Center in time for the Elements. I will get to the reason later.It was about 8:30 pm when we got to David Geffen Hall. The renovated building has a rather large atrium with a couple of large screen TVs that would broadcast the event live, and is open to the public. The atrium was reasonably full, with all the seats occupied. There was quite a bit of standing room, and some available seating in the box office area. So we managed to see part of the performance. For various reasons it was difficult to concentrate, but I did get […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-31 18:48:06
Business Mentality in the Arts? Unkind Cuts?
From many sources we learn that Brandeis University proposes to place its PhD programs in composition and musicology on hiatus “until financial conditions improve,” according to Assistant Professor Emily Frey Giansiracusa’s account in Slipped Disc of Provost Carol Fierke’s pronouncement. Current candidates will be able to complete their work, and no faculty will be let go. Will the University’s bottom line take the slightest notice of this? Will the Lydian Quartet be shrunk to a trio? Is this what the President Liebowitz called “a lean into science”? Will science studies actually benefit? Our correspondents think not. Is this the beginning of an assault on the Arts? The directors of beloved institutions don’t always make the best decisions. Community hue and cry did not save Boston’s magnificent Opera House from Northeastern University’s wrecking ball, though powerful artistic opinion-makers managed to reverse Emerson College’s intention to morph Clarence Blackall’s stunning and historic […]
2022-04-23 14:26:00
Berlin Festtage (5) – Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Don Giovanni, 17 April 2022
Don Giovanni – Michael Volle Donna Anna – Slávka Zámečníková Don Ottavio – Bogdan Volkov Commendatore – Peter Rose Donna Elvira – Elsa Dreisig Leporello – Riccardo Fassi Masetto – David Oštrek Zerlina – Serena Sáenz Vincent Huguet (director)Aurélie Maestre (set designs)Clémence Pernoud (costumes)Irene Selka (lighting)Robert Pflanz (video)Louis Geisler (dramaturgy)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus master: Martin Wright)Staatskapelle BerlinThomas Guggeis (conductor)Don Giovanni (Michael Volle), Commendatore (Peter Rose), Leporello (Riccardo Fassi)Images: Matthias Baus Don Giovanni was the first opera Daniel Barenboim conducted: at the 1973 Edinburgh Festival. Nearly fifty years on, this new production was eagerly awaited, if more for Barenboim than for director Vincent Huguet, whose previous contributions towards this Berlin Da Ponte ‘trilogy’ (see hereand here) have generally been considered disappointing at best. Alas, Barenboim, whose incendiary conducting of Peter Mussbach’s production here on Unter den Linden in 2007 remains one of my Mozart operatic highlights, had to withdraw, replaced by Staatskapellmeister […]
2022-03-16 18:21:00
Opéra Bastille Images: Agathe Poupeney / OnP Wozzeck – Johan Reuter Drum Major – John Daszak Andres – Tansel Akzeybek Captain – Gerhard Siegel Doctor – Falk Struckmann First Apprentice – Mikhail Timoshenko Second Apprentice – Tobias Westman Fool – Heinz Göhrig Marie – Eva-Maria Westbroek Margret – Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur Soldier – Vincent Morell Actors – Nathalie Baunaure, Fitzgerald Berthon, Andrea Fabi, Manon LheureuxWilliam Kentridge (director)Luc De Wit (co-director)Sabine Theunissen (set designs)Greta Goiris (costumes)Catherine Meyburgh (video)Urs Schönebaum (lighting)Kim Gunning (video operator) Maîtrise des-Hauts-de Seins/Children’s Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris (chorus master: Gaël Darchen), Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris (chorus master: Ching-Lien Wu) Orchestra of the Opéra national de ParisSusanna Mälkki (conductor) Four-and-a-halfyears ago, I saw William Kentridge’s then new Wozzeck at the Salzburg Festival. I found myself somewhat nonplussed by its more distanced, alienating aspects, thinking them better […]
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