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Music NewsReady With a Song and a Story at 952008-02-03 06:01 - Tony Martin’s voice is not what it was, but when the lights dim and he opens with Lerner and Loewe’s ?Almost Like Being in Love,? he has the audience in his hands. If It’s Hit, Strummed or Plucked, It?ll Be Here 2008-02-03 06:01 - Robert J. Ulrich is donating millions of dollars to establish the decidedly unglamorous Musical Instrument Museum. Ethereal Songs Made More Expansive With an Orchestra’s Multitude of Co... 2008-02-03 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. A Touch of Royal Pomp From a Flute-Playing King 2008-02-03 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. Sober Bartok With a Swirling Finale 2008-02-03 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. From Berio, the Dark Fraying Ends of the 1960s 2008-02-03 06:01 - Lorin Maazel led the Philharmonic in its first performance in 20 years of Luciano Berio’s ?Sinfonia,? which he wrote for the orchestra in the tumultuous late 1960s. Finding a Tangle of Knots, Untying Them Smoothly 2008-02-03 06:01 - The bright young group performed Elliott Carter’s quartets with an air of confirmed mastery at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Wednesday. Star Soprano Coaxes a Puccini Role From the Vault 2008-02-03 06:01 - There was basically one reason the Metropolitan Opera dusted off its drearily realistic, unbecoming old production of Puccini’s ?Manon Lescaut? and brought it back to the house for the first time in 18 years on Tuesday night: the soprano Karita Mattila. No Tomorrow? 95 Years of Yesterdays 2008-02-03 06:01 - The singer Tony Martin may be his generation’s Last Man Standing. Vespers Still Startling After All These Years 2008-02-03 06:01 - It says something for Monteverdi’s powerful presence that 400 years of shifting musical standards have not softened his voice. 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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