BWW Reviews: Baltimore Symphony's Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch Highlights Strength of His Music and Character
A heartfelt tribute to a great composer, one has to admire the musicianship on display at this concert.
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BWW Reviews: Baltimore Symphony's 'Off the Cuff': Dvorak's New World Symphony
Maestra Marin Alsop conducts a music appreciation evening for lovers of Dvoraks's 9th Symphony before a packed house.
BWW Reviews: Modernist Score Releases Trials of Skylight's El Cimarrón
The truth in a story can move an audience to powerful reflection.
BWW Reviews: WEST SIDE STORY Still Shows Many Faces
The day Leonard Bernstein died, a sense of gut-wrenching loss pervaded the musical world.
BWW Reviews: Bernadette Peters' New Year's Eve Concert at the Eccles Center Was a Smashing Success
Bernadette Peters' New Year's Eve concert at the Eccles Center, presented by the Park City Institute, was a smashing success.
BWW Reviews: BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL Sings 'Happy Holidays' with NSO - What a Performance!
NSO presents a wonderful holiday celebration.
BWW Reviews: VOICES FOR RELIEF Typhoon Haiyan Fundraiser From Academy of Vocal Arts Alumni and Residents
Tenor Jeffrey Halili and fellow graduates and resident artists of Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts performed November 30 (and again on December 14) at Philadelphia's First Presbyterian for American Red Cross typhoon relief
BWW Reviews: Langston Hughes' BLACK NATIVITY Lights Up Brunswick Christmas
In 1961 at the 41st Street Theatre in New York City, African-American poet-playwright Langston Hughes premiered a work called Black Nativity, a collection of gospel songs punctuated by Hughes's own verse narrating the birth of Jesus.
BWW Reviews: AVA's COSI FAN TUTTE Shows How To Do An Update That Works
The Academy of Vocal Arts performed an updated version of Mozart's comic opera that makes sense in its handling and boasts some fine performances
BWW Reviews: Back to the 18th Century with Labadie, Persson and the New York Philharmonic
Handel wrote over 1000 da capo arias—a musical mainstay of Italian baroque operas--during his career, but none more thrilling than “Let the Bright Seraphim.
BWW Reviews: Penderecki 'Concerto Grosso for Three Cellos' Makes Philharmonic Debut
The brilliant Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki seems to be enjoying something of a renaissance - especially in New York this month! His works were performed in at least three concert halls over the last month and the composer himself made appearances at several of the performances.
BWW Reviews: SVADBA (Wedding) Makes US Premiere At Opera Philadelphia
The Queen of Puddings production of Ana Sokolovic's short opera made its US premiere at Opera Philadelphia with the assistance of FringeArts and a raucous reception
BWW CD Reviews: David Lanz's Beautiful MOVEMENTS OF THE HEART
The latest release by pianist/composer David Lanz is called MOVEMENTS OF THE HEART, and that title accurately sums up the tone and tenor of the CD.
BWW Reviews: EVENINGS AT ELDER HALL 2013: CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA: Young Musicians Thrill Audiences with Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra
The eighth and final concert in the Evenings at Elder Hall concert series, Concerto for Orchestra, was a chance for the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the anniversaries of three great classical composers, Benjamin Britten, Witold Lutos?awski, and Richard Wagner.
BWW Reviews: Piffaro's RETURN OF THE PIPES Features Royal Favorites
The first concert of Piffaro's season featured a young recorder virtuoso, bagpipers, favorite composers of the royal courts, and a royal composer, Henry VIII
BWW Reviews: Ann Hampton Callaway Sings Streisand Songbook with Baltimore Symphony
Pops Conductor Jack Everly helms entertaining evening of great music
BWW Reviews: The POPS' Viva Philadelphia! Celebrates Philly's Italian Musical Heritage
Maestro Michael Krajewski, Poperazzi, and Philadelphia's own Eddie Bruce celebrate everything from Mario Lanza to The Four Seasons, with dashes of Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, and Paganini, for the opening of the POPS season
BWW Reviews: Triple-Threat at Carnegie Hall--DiDonato, Levine and the MET Orchestra
After a triumph in Mozart's COSI FAN TUTTE at the Met, James Levine made it two in a row, as he returned with the MET Orchestra and soloist Joyce DiDonato to Carnegie Hall early this week for a concert of far-reaching styles and depth.
BWW Reviews: Ian Hobson Plays Brahms - All of It!
The esteemed pianist Ian Hobson is giving New York an early Christmas present.
BWW Reviews: The Philadelphia Orchestra With Choral Beethoven and Muhly
Yannick conducts the Orchestra, massed choirs, and soloists (including award-winner Shenyang) in Beethoven's Ninth and a mass by Muhly
BWW Reviews: Baltimore Symphony Features Movie Music Maven Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Gershwin, Bernstein, and Ravel.
BWW Reviews: Oz Asia Festival 2013: T'ANG QUARTET: SECRETS AND SONGS Delight the Audience with Contemporary Music from East and West
The T'ang Quartet, comprising Ng Yu-Ying, first violin, Ang Chek Meng, second violin, Lionel Tan, viola, and Leslie Tan, cello, presented a very varied concert of six pieces by four contemporary composers.
CD REVIEW: The Principal Brass - Debut CD 'New York'
Who says classical music can't be fun?
BWW Reviews: Mostly Mozart Offers 'Enlightenment' on Handel
It's a slippery slope--when an orchestra commemorates the career of a famous singer, featuring other, less well-known artists.
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Carnegie Hall Presents: Santiago Cañón-Valencia and Victor Santiago Asuncion Carnegie Hall (11/10-11/10) |
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American Composers Orchestra: Hello, America: We Gather Here at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall (10/27-10/27) |
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American Composers Orchestra: New Virtuoso: Low End Theory at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall (3/18-3/18) |