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Music NewsMusic: Making It Mellow and Keeping It Green2008-02-04 06:01 - Jack Johnson is not just a purveyor of upbeat acoustic pop. He’s also a dedicated environmentalist. Music: A Lengthy Journey, Nowhere Near Over 2008-02-04 06:01 - The diminutive Chinese conductor Xian Zhang’s passionate musicality and boundless energy led her from a small town in China to the New York Philharmonic. Music Review: Ethereal Songs Made More Expansive With an Orchestra’s M... 2008-02-04 06:01 - Joanna Newsom’s perpetual-motion harp playing provides settings that encompass madrigals, Appalachian ballads and African griot songs, and her voice can sound piercing or intimate. Music Review: A Touch of Royal Pomp From a Flute-Playing King 2008-02-04 06:01 - Regal luxury is a concept foreign to New York’s financially troubled early-music world. But the Clarion Music Society and its artistic director, Steven Fox, made a decent show of it at Weill Recital Hall on Thursday. Music Review: Sober Bartok With a Swirling Finale 2008-02-04 06:01 - Viviane Hagner’s violin recital with the pianist Tatiana Goncharova at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday was mostly Brahms but mainly about Bartok’s Sonata for Solo Violin. Music Review: A Symphonic Homage to Manhattan 2008-02-04 05:40 - ?212,? a symphony in homage to Manhattan by the composer and native New Yorker Robert Sirota, was played impressively on Thursday by the Manhattan School of Music Symphony. Music Review: Honoring Jazz Greats, Not Repeating Them 2008-02-04 05:40 - By Thursday night, when Trio M made their New York stand in the mezzanine lounge of the Kitano Hotel, their rapport felt noticeably deeper than on the record, and the music covered a broader dynamic range. Classical Recordings: Discs Filled With Discoveries 2008-02-04 05:40 - Reviews of works performed by Robert Weirich, Andrew Rangell and Lisa Bielawa. Weekend in New York | Rock ?n? Roll: Rock Around the Block 2008-02-04 05:40 - The old New York music scene is fun to tour around and talk about, but the new scene is more fun at night for one big reason: it still exists. Playlist: Memories of Dusty, Newport and ?Odelay? 2008-02-04 05:40 - Releases by Shelby Lynne, Enrico Rava and Stefano Bollani, Beck and Horace Silver. 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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