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Music News

Music Review | Met Chamber Ensemble: On a Crowded Stage, Works Burstin...
2008-04-02 05:40 - Different in their methods and their messages, Mozart and Gunther Schuller had at least one thing in common on Sunday afternoon: a desire to please.

Music Review: The Polish of a Trained Voice, the Passion of a Folk Sin...
2008-04-02 05:40 - On Sunday Kate Royal devoted much of her program at the Frick Collection ? her first recital there ? to showing how ravishing repertory that skirts the borders of the mainstream can sound.

Music Review: Thunder Out of Russia, Courtesy of Both Orchestra and Pi...
2008-04-02 05:40 - Although it is not the oldest Russian orchestra now active, the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia is certainly among the more venerable.

Bernstein’s Singing Presidents: A Recount
2008-04-01 06:01 - It has taken more than three decades to gain a second hearing of ?1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,? which Leonard Bernstein wrote with the lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.

Music Review | Augustin Hadelich: Fledgling Violinist Flies Solo in Ca...
2008-04-01 06:01 - Mr. Hadelich ? a fine, thoughtful young player ? might have had more to tell his listeners in more modest surroundings.

Music Review | Ana Moura: Sorrow in Seductive Adornment
2008-04-01 06:01 - Sorrow wrapped in guitar filigree, elegant romance with a tragic undercurrent ? that’s the tradition of Portuguese fado that Ana Moura joins.

Music Review | ’La Bohème’: Zeffirelli’s ?Bohème? for th...
2008-04-01 06:01 - Franco Zeffirelli’s ?Bohème? has had more performances than any other production in the Met’s history, and the Met used the occasion to pay tribute to Mr. Zeffirelli.

For a Purchase Premiere, ?A Musical Outcry?
2008-04-01 06:01 - Laura Kaminsky’s composition, ?Terra Terribilis,? will have its world premiere on April 5 and 6 when it is performed by the Westchester Philharmonic.

Arts and Entertainment: A Local Jazz Group Hits Its Stride
2008-04-01 06:01 - The Westchester Jazz Orchestra’s first CD, ?All In,? has done better than the ensemble anticipated and reflects the group’s musical growth.

Entertainment: Making Music, and Their Own Rules
2008-04-01 05:40 - Though unsigned, the band Push Play has found fame online and in real life.

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