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Music News

Podium Star, Ever Expanding His Horizons
2008-01-28 05:40 - The 35-year-old conductor Vladimir Jurowski has features similiar to Rudolf Nureyev, and conveys his intentions with balletic fluency, applying accents that are minimal and precise.

Easing Taut Prog-Metal Into a Majestic Crunch
2008-01-27 06:01 - Neurosis has its Masonic tendencies. There’s an obsession with craft, and with mysticism ? or at least the puniness of man’s will against larger forces.

Wonders and Woes of a Working-Class Life
2008-01-27 06:01 - On Thursday evening Lori McKenna, a twangy-voiced mother of five children from Stoughton, Mass., brought it all back home at the Allen Room, where she was appearing as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series.

A Song-and-Dance Salute to the King of French Operetta
2008-01-27 06:01 - ?Offenbach Cabaret: Jacques in the Big Apple,? presented by Opéra Français de New York and the French Institute Alliance Française, promised a satirical and ’saucy musical review.?

Young Singers? Chance to Fill a Stage All Alone
2008-01-27 05:40 - This week the Marilyn Horne Foundation and the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall joined forces to present ?The Song Continues.?

Diva as Broadway Baby
2008-01-26 06:01 - In Deborah Voigt’s interpretations of songs made famous by Julie Andrews and other Broadway sopranos, she graciously leans forward from her throne but doesn?t leave it.

In a Show of Accessibility, Schumann Joins Bruckner
2008-01-26 05:40 - Radu Lupu made the Schumann Piano Concerto interesting even for listeners who know the piece too well in his performance at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday.

He May Be Loathsome, but This Evangelist Has Pipes
2008-01-26 05:40 - The opera, as seen at Montclair State University in New Jersey, is a tunefully entertaining and thoughtful piece of theater.

In Real Time, Amy Winehouse’s Deeper Descent
2008-01-25 06:01 - There was nothing amusing, and barely any surprise, in Amy Winehouse’s recent, notorious and possibly inadvertent public appearance: on a video released by an English tabloid, The Sun.

All Sides Now of a Seasoned Performer
2008-01-25 06:01 - At Tuesday’s opening performance of a six-week engagement at the Café Carlyle Judy Collins’s voice, clear and vibrato free but inflected with delicate little shivers, stole through the room like a shaft of light falling through a stained-glass window.

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