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Music News?Ring? Fans and the Met Lock Horns Over Ticket Rule2008-04-11 06:01 - They are a rare breed, those rabid fans of Wagner’s ?Ring? cycle, and right now, they are angry. As angry as a nest of offended Valkyries. Music Review: For a Beloved Conductor, Bach’s Monument of Music 2008-04-11 06:01 - In the months before his death, the renowned choral conductor Richard Westenburg was still hoping to conduct the performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor that took place on Tuesday at Carnegie Hall. Music Review: ?Candide? the Opera (or Is It a Musical?) Returns 2008-04-11 06:01 - In the annals of works that have had complicated births and undergone much revision, Leonard Bernstein’s ?Candide? is a special case. Music Review: Unexpected Conductor and Soloist; Expected Results 2008-04-11 05:41 - The concert that the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields presented at Avery Fisher Hall on Tuesday night was not the one it originally planned. Music Review: Santana, the Old and the New, in a Concert Spanning the ... 2008-04-11 05:41 - Carlos Santana, who performed at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, understands the gap between tersely edited, hook-touting pop songs for radio and the percussion-driven jams he unleashes onstage. Music Review: Torch Songs From a Funny Girl 2008-04-11 05:40 - Inexhaustible, larger than life, ravenous for adulation, Lainie Kazan is an old-school entertainer for whom there are no half measures. Music Review: A Guitarist-Led Quintet, Packing a Forceful Arsenal 2008-04-11 05:40 - The guitarist Adam Rogers specializes in a turbocharged, sleekly designed, ultimately armored brand of postbop. Philharmonic to Give Summer Concert on Governors Island 2008-04-10 06:01 - The New York Philharmonic will give a free concert on Governors Island on July 5, officials said Tuesday, a possible step toward the orchestra’s cherished hope of finding a permanent summer home in the New York area. Changes, and a Constant, for New York Jazz Festival 2008-04-09 06:01 - This year’s edition of the JVC Jazz Festival, which takes place from June 15 to 28 and whose details were announced Tuesday, turns out to be undiminished and newly energized by welcome changes of locations and some imaginative bookings. Music Review: An All-Brahms Program, Both Passionate and Poised 2008-04-09 06:01 - It’s hard to imagine disliking Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet in B minor, which the Emerson String Quartet and the clarinetist David Shifrin eloquently performed at the Rose Theater on Sunday afternoon. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 |
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