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2017-04-07 02:10:35
"If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets." The poetry of Henry David Thoreau and the music of Moshe Knoll and Michael Ching , Verdi, Mascagni and Cavalli soared Monday April 3rd from the JCC Manhattan' New York classical music series "PREformances with Allison Charney ."
2017-03-22 07:25:13
On Monday April 3rd, at 12:30 PM, the New York classical music series "PREformances with Allison Charney " will present Metropolitan Opera stars' tenor Todd Wilander and countertenor Jeffrey Mandelbaum in a scintillating concert of arias and duets from masterworks by Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi. The program will also feature contemporary classical compositions for voice, cello and piano by Michael Ching and Moshe Knoll , performed by musicians of the ARK Trio, soprano Allison Charney , cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida .
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CNY Café Momus
2015-07-24 00:42:31
July 19 Glimmerglass: Candide
[…] down a peg or three. However, there is far too much plot and far too many political targets in Voltaire’s Candide to stuff into a single musical. It’s an “and then…and then…and then” story that wends its way from Westphalia to Bavaria to Holland to Spain to Montevideo to El Dorado and back to Venice. How does one stage all that? Further, Voltaire’s interest was not character development. It was contemporary politics and philosophy. Ken Mandelbaum, who wrote about Broadway’s biggest musical flops in his book Not Since Carrie, put his finger on the challenge facing any producer of Candide: “The real problem with Hellman’s book is that Voltaire’s novel is simply unsuited to stage adaptation: it’s a picaresque series of adventures with no real plot which repeats the same philosophical points again and again. There is nothing dramatic about it, and Candide, Cunegonde, and the others were not meant […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-04-29 11:18:31
Two new names in the Berlin Philharmonic frame
One of the players who will be voting on May 11 reckons it’s a four-way election: 1 Thielemann 2 Jansons 3 Kirill Petrenko 4 Ivan Fischer Take this whispered tip cum grano salis (as Mahler would have said). There are presently more opinions in the orchestra than there are blossoms on a Mandelbaum. Anther player whispered that they were all going ‘ganz diskret und neutral’ (totally discreet and neutral) into the voting chamber.
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