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Music NewsSources of Heat and Light to Challenge an Icy Season2008-02-14 06:01 - Schumann’s vibrant Piano Quintet was given a vigorous performance on Monday at Weill Recital Hall by the Modigliani String Quartet and the pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger. A Rare Jewish Bid for the Classically Sacred Concert 2008-02-14 06:01 - Robert Bass and the Collegiate Chorale gave Ernest Bloch’s ?Avodath Hakodesh? a thoughtful, richly textured performance at Central Synagogue on Monday evening. Catching Up With | Hot Chip 2008-02-14 05:40 - The Moment chats up the British band Hot Chip... A Victory for Jazz, or Just Grammy Being Grammy? 2008-02-13 06:01 - ?River: The Joni Letters,? by Herbie Hancock can be understood as a celebration of the academy’s more high-minded pop impulses. What’s in a Beethoven Quartet? A Full Curriculum 2008-02-13 06:01 - In an unusual educational experiment the Curtis Institute of Music has established Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11 in F minor (Op. 95) as the touchstone of the academic year for its 160 students. Hungarians Come Calling, Eager to Show Their Range 2008-02-13 06:01 - The Budapest Festival Orchestra ? formed by Ivan Fischer in 1983 and conducted by him twice over the weekend at Avery Fisher Hall ? enticed us with two of Bartok’s rare adventures into the theater. A Woozy Thrill Ride on a Volcano’s Edge 2008-02-13 06:01 - The songwriter David Yazbek is a daredevil juggler catching spiked pins in the traveling carnival of his imagination. This Year’s Awards: Yesterday, Once More 2008-02-13 06:01 - Always distrustful of the noisy youth music that has sustained the business, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences went out of its way to let the air out of this year’s show. Houston’s Hip-Hop Scene Picks Up the Pieces After Yet Another Death 2008-02-13 06:01 - Bun B, the Port Arthur, Tex., rapper, performed a courageous tribute to Pimp C, his partner in the pioneering duo UGK, who was found dead in a hotel room last year. Keeping a Faun, a Scamp and a Firebird in Line 2008-02-13 06:01 - Marin Alsop’s motley program with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra only hinted at how her relationship with the orchestra is faring. 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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