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Tag: Classical Music

Yo-Yo Ma Is Finding His Way Back to Nature Through Music

From there, the students boarded buses for a white-water rafting trip with interludes from the park’s scientists. The mood was playfully competitive and cheerful,...

Notable Boxed Sets of 2022: Pop, Rap, Soul, Jazz and More

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, ‘Nancy & Lee’(Light in the Attic; CD, $14; LP, $27; cassette, $12; 8-track, $35)After last year’s excellent Nancy Sinatra...

Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’

We have arrived at that point in the holiday season when it seems as though you could attend a different performance of Handel’s “Messiah”...

Review: Klaus Mäkelä, Rising Star of Conducting, Arrives in New York

But the memory of it was quickly swept aside by the Shostakovich that followed — in particular the similarly grand, breakneck finale. There, you...

Sphinx Was Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music

“She has no vanity about her,” said Victoria Robey, a member of the organization’s board. “She just wants to see Sphinx be the best...

New York Philharmonic Was Once All-Male. Now, Women Outnumber Men.

Still, many artists hailed the new prevalence of women in the Philharmonic as a significant development. Symphony orchestras were long seen as the dominion...

Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness

This was supposed to be a time of celebration for Daniel Barenboim.A renowned pianist and a titan among the world’s conductors, he was scheduled...

Santtu-Matias Rouvali Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm

YLÖJÄRVI, Finland — “Here I grow peas,” the conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali said, gesturing to a plot of land the size of a small room....

Combing the Beach, and the Archives, to Revive ‘The Wreckers’

LEWES, England — Late last fall, there was an unusual sight on a beach in southern England: a team of staff members from Glyndebourne...

‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due

DETROIT — As the orchestra of the Detroit Opera tuned itself for a recent rehearsal, the outline of a vast spacecraft loomed over the...

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Horn

In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to make our friends fall in love with classical music, piano,...

Denouncing War, Ukrainian Musicians Unite for a World Tour

The Russian invasion has devastated cultural life in Ukraine, forcing renowned musical ensembles to disband and leading to an exodus of conductors, composers and...

Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch

His forcefulness in his right hand sometimes tipped into rawness — which, in passages of worried repetition, added an intriguing note of obsessiveness but...

Valery Gergiev, a Putin Ally, Fired as Chief Conductor in Munich

Valery Gergiev, the star Russian maestro and prominent supporter of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, was removed Tuesday from his post as chief...

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