Two MCANA Members Win 57th Annual Taylor/Thomson Awards
BREAKING NEWS — Gail Wein received an award for her CVNA podcast Classical Gas, while Esteban Meneses was honored for a bilingual story in Symphony Magazine about Mexican composers whose music is flourishing around the world.
Offbeat Opera Fest: Noted Composers, Rare Works Catnip For Buffs
WEXFORD, Ireland – The Wexford Festival Opera's draw of fans from around the world gives this seacoast town a lively vibe. In its 75th year, the event offered Mascagni's Iris, Rossini's L’equivoco stravagante, and Prokofiev's The Gambler.
Greek Opera Orchestra Carnegie Debut Sounds Nary A Note Of Opera
NEW YORK – In an impressive yet in some respects frustrating concert, the Greek National Opera Orchestra delivered showpieces that revealed the high quality of its musicians in assured ensemble work and well-executed solos.
Notes From Past, Afar: British Singers Traverse Renaissance Polyphony
NEW YORK – Polyphonic Postcards, the program Stile Antico brought to Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, made a grand tour of Continental sacred and secular Renaissance music, with a 21st-century stop in America added for good measure.
Supercharged Mahler 5 Kicks Off Nézet-Séguin Cycle At Carnegie Hall
NEW YORK – Judging from this concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the season-long Mahler tour (also with the Met Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic) will place Yannick Nézet-Séguin's musical personality front and center.
Complexity And Calm Unlikely Soul Mates In High-Density Premiere
LOS ANGELES – Mathematics and meditation melded into delicate sensitivity when the LA Philharmonic conducted by Susanna Mälkki gave the first U.S. performance of Czech avant-garde composer Miroslav Srnka's Superorganisms.
Benchmark Berlin Phil Unfurls Regal Sound In Carnegie Hall Concerts
NEW YORK – Carnegie's new season began with a four-performance splash by the Berliners, arguably the world's best orchestra, led by chief conductor Kirill Petrenko. The opening night gala featured a star turn by tenor Jonas Kaufmann.
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IN THE NEWS: MCANA MEMBERS' PICKS
The ASO's Nathalie Stutzmann talks opera, why Atlanta is her "main sport," and the repertoire in her blood -- by James L. Paulk at Arts Atlanta- Ileana Cotrubas, the “Traviata” of her generation - by Wilhelm Sinkovicz at Die Presse
- ‘Musical Bodies’ Review: A Human Symphony at the Met Museum - by Diane Cole at Wall Street Journal
- The crisis facing US classical music - by Douglas McLennan at Bachtrack
- The Salzburg Festival navigates uncertain times without a captain - by Markus Hihnterhauser at NY Times
- This Opera Written for Louis XIV Feels Ripped From the Headlines - by Roslyn Sulcas at NY Times
- Bach ache: The project transforming classical music into an immersive bodily experience - by Tom Almeroth-Williams at University of Cambridge
- William Kentridge’s L’Orfeo at Glyndebourne - by Denis Wendel-Poray at La Scena Musicale
- The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write - by Philippe Sands at The Guardian
- Here’s What ‘the Most Important Mozart Discovery in Decades’ Sounds Like - by Jeffrey Arlo Brown at NYTimes
- Summer festivals are a bright spot on the classical music landscape - by Philip Kennicott at Washington Post
- When an Extravaganza, the Dudamel Era in L.A. Approaches Its End - by Adam Nagourney at NY Times
- Los Angeles Philharmonic announces Daniel Harding as next music director - by Imogen Tilden at The Guardian
- Harmonium of Texas, Kahane's new start for San Antonio – by Jack Morgan at Texas Public Radio
- Leif Ove Andsnes on Geirr Tveitt, Norway’s Lost Genius – by Qobuz at YouTube
- Six podcasts about classical music – by Emma Dibdin at NY Times
- Encore! Encore! Maybe only one. Kissin’s fans were dazzled; he was dazed by da bum’s rush - by Lawrence B. Johnson at Chicago On the Aisle
- Elim Chan named SF Symphony's next music director - by Janos Gereben at SF Classical Voice
- The Wayward, new on CD at Bridge Records, is vivid reminder how vivid Harry Partch's music can be - by Ralph P. Locke at The Arts Fuse
- Musicians of the Old Post Road take on Graupner, Telemann, and others - by Ralph P. Locke at Boston Musical Intelligencer
- Gustavo Dudamel receives $1 million award from musician Herb Alpert: ‘We can change the world, but it starts with educating young people’ - by María Porcel at El Pais
- ‘Time to Act’ Review: Pittsburgh Opera’s Didactic Trauma Drama - by Heidi Waleson at WSJ
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DiDonato And String Trio Cycle Through Personal World View Of Dickinson
LA JOLLA, Calif. – In Kevin Puts' song cycle Emily: No Prisoner Be, Joyce DiDonato, Time for Three, and strobe-light-and-haze theatrical staging brought Emily Dickinson’s searing poetry alive.
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Back To The Present: Recording Taps Old Roots Of New Music
DIGITAL REVIEW – Looking to "recorded, imagined, and personal histories as a way of finding new meaning in the present,” three creative voices bespeak their origins and inspirations in a live concert by the American Composers Orchestra.
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Marian Anderson: Voice Of A Century Who Also Bore Discord Of Racism
BOOK REVIEW – Anthony Tommasini's perceptive new biography chronicles the legendary American contralto's wildly popular embrace in Europe as well as her experience back home: banned from hotels even as she was cheered in concert halls.
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