The Classical Beat: May 10, 2009 - May 16, 2009
Poll: Programming the Contemporary
Poll: How do you want to hear contemporary music?
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May 16, 2009; 10:35 AM ET |
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In Performance: Local Reviews
On the Web: Il Convito Celebrates the Baroque Without Fetishizing It, by Joan Reinthaler. Baroque and Bach are synonymous, right? Well, not really. J.S. did make an appearance as an encore at the exquisite tour of baroque styles and...
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May 16, 2009; 9:30 AM ET |
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In Performance: Local Reviews
Link to review of Jun Märkl at the NSO.
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May 15, 2009; 9:15 AM ET |
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A Spanish Legacy: Achúcarro at the Phillips
The pianist Joaquín Achúcarro talks before his DC recital this weekend.
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May 15, 2009; 6:30 AM ET |
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Downloading the Classics
Classical Archives, a new site selling classical music downloads, reinvents the wheel but rolls pretty well; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's classical music podcast The Concert has its millionth download.
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May 14, 2009; 6:30 AM ET |
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In Performance: Local Reviews
A link to my review of Teddy Tahu Rhodes at the Vocal Arts Society; in other publications, Charles Downey on Till Fellner, and Zurich's new "Agrippina."
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May 14, 2009; 6:26 AM ET |
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Programming the Contemporary
How should classical music institutions go about presenting contemporary works?
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Anne Midgette
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May 13, 2009; 6:30 AM ET |
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In Performance: Local Reviews
Links to reviews of the end of the Crosscurrents festival and the Cathedral Choral Society; Robert Battey reviews the Italian pianist Maurizio Moretti.
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May 12, 2009; 6:31 AM ET |
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In With the Old: New Works by Old Masters
Tonight sees the second North American premiere of the same Mendelssohn piano concerto - the Third, which has been reconstructed in two different versions by two different people. And this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to world premieres by the great composers these days.
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May 11, 2009; 10:05 AM ET |
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Weekend Roundup
Links to reviews of WNO's "Siegfried" (with the originally scheduled tenor) and the Crosscurrents festival, as well as ENO's "Peter Grimes"
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May 11, 2009; 6:30 AM ET |
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