New York Classical Review

A discerning program and superb singing highlight Musica Sacra concert

There have been many stylistic periods in classical music history, but across one thousand-plus years there have been only ...
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The Orchestra Now recalls forgotten composers from a turbulent era

The Orchestra Now, conducted by Zachary Schwartzman with tenor Ryan Michki, will perform music by Richard Strauss, Vaughan ...
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Sierra and Villazón shine brightly in Met’s new “Sonnambula”

Sierra is also paired with the equally outstanding tenor Xabier Anduaga as Amina’s fiancé Elvino. Causing trouble and ...
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Wang, NYO-USA All-Stars open Carnegie Hall season with thrills and good times

That was the right way to enjoy the performance of the NYO-USA All-Stars orchestra, pianist Yuja Wang, and conductor Daniel ...
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Intriguing rarities by Beach and Gipps, admirably served by NY Repertory Orchestra

This was conservative programming in a meaningful and illuminating way, not protecting the orchestra from failure or an indifferent reaction, but playing music from the traditional mainstream of ...
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Greenwich Village Orchestra brings a New York state of mind to American works

They depict the history of the needlecraft industry in New York intertwined with the ideals of the New Deal in what the ...
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Parlando explores the concept of “Bildung” in season opener

Ian Niederhoffer conducted Parlando Tuesday night at Merkin Hall. A Parlando concert is what would be called in academic music circles a lecture-demo: the music is used to illustrate and illuminate an ...
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Tesori’s “Grounded” scores a dark triumph in Met season opener

Emily D’Angelo stars as Jess in Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera “If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine ...
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Slow to get under sail, “Moby-Dick” builds to powerful impact in Met debut

Brandon Jovanovich is Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The very concept seems impossible: taking Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick—not just one of the greatest ...
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In Met debut Blanchard’s “Champion” proves lightweight in its class

Eric Owens and Ryan Speedo Green in Terence Blanchard’s Champion at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera The production had a lot going for it: the good will (and expanded audience ...
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Mäkelä, Orchestre de Paris conjure a spectacular “Firebird,” visceral “Rite”

A hundred and eleven years ago, a ballet audience in Paris experienced “the shock of the new” as never before, when the primitive rhythms and dissonances of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring ...
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Licad serves up revelatory Chopin in Key Pianists recital

Cecile Licad performed Thursday night at Weill Recital Hall in the Key Pianists series. Photo: Patrick Diokno Pianist Cecile Licad presented one of her infrequent and welcome New York appearances ...