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Music NewsReigning Wagnerian Tenor Returns to ’Tristan’2008-03-28 06:01 - Ben Heppner rallied this weekend and sang Tuesday’s performance of Wagner’s ’Tristan und Isolde.’ And he was worth waiting for. Music Review: Reigning Wagnerian Tenor Returns to ’Tristan’ 2008-03-28 06:01 - Ben Heppner rallied last weekend and sang Tuesday’s performance of Wagner’s ?Tristan und Isolde.? And he was worth waiting for. Music Review: Dispatches on the State of the Piano 2008-03-28 06:01 - ?Keys to the Future,? a three-concert affair at the Greenwich House’s tiny Renee Weiler Concert Hall, concluding on Thursday, is letting us know what piano music is like lately. Measure for Measure: Words Will Tell 2008-03-28 05:40 - For this songwriter, melodies come as naturally as breathing, but words are elusive. The first post in a new blog about the craft of writing songs. Arts, Briefly: Voigt’s Isolde Is Latest Casualty in Metropolitan Opera... 2008-03-27 06:01 - Truth remained stranger than even Wagnerian fiction for the Metropolitan Opera’s six-performance revival of ?Tristan und Isolde? in its fifth outing, on Tuesday. Music Review: Living for Art Gives You Arias to Resort to in Your Time... 2008-03-26 06:01 - Mark Lamos’s stark staging of ’Tosca’ for the New York City Opera updates the story to Fascist Rome. Music Review: Selections for Two Vocalists in French, German, Italian 2008-03-26 06:01 - Michelle DeYoung shared a concert on Thursday at the Morgan Library & Museum with Bryan Hymel, a young tenor who won the George London Foundation’s award last year. Music Review: Haydn, Politics and Poetry on Calvary 2008-03-26 06:01 - The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented Haydn’s ’Seven Last Words of Christ’ at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Friday night. Neil Aspinall, Beatles? Aide, Dies at 66 2008-03-26 06:01 - Mr. Aspinall left an accounting job to become the Beatles? road manager when the group was still a local dance band and later manage the band’s production company, Apple. For Volpe, Met Is Not a Final Curtain 2008-03-26 05:40 - Joseph Volpe, a prickly man with a restless energy, is accustomed to being the center of attention and to calling the shots. But in a recent interview he said he was ready to be more of a team player. 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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