Neue Kritikenmehr...
Argento New Music Project returns to live performance
The chamber ensemble offered a century-spanning programming, stretching from Béla Bartók and Ruth Crawford Seeger to Ann Cleare and Georg Friedrich Haas.
A timely Mother of Us All at the Metropolitan Museum
The Mother of Us All isn’t an easy work and it’s far from one of Stein’s best pieces of writing. But in this centenary of women’s suffrage, it’s an important one.
The Messiaen Connection: Salonen and members of the NY Phil
As part of the New York Philharmonic’s CONTACT new music series at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, Esa-Pekka Salonen drew connections among Olivier Messiaen, two of his students (Pierre Boulez and George Benjamin) and one outlier (Oliver Knussen).
Bargemusic gives a strong showing for composers old and new
The “Masterworks Series” at Bargemusic, featuring such diverse composers as Bach, Stephen Foster, Tan Dun and Gunther Schuller, gave audiences a welcome break from the oppressive New York humidity Sunday afternoon.
A Dancer's Dream: All the old showstoppers at the New York Philharmonic
Unusual scenes at the New York Philharmonic this past weekend: a ballerina flouncing across the stage; conductor Alan Gilbert lugging a life-size puppet down the aisle amid rows of laughing, bewildered audience members; black-and-white video projections of the orchestra musicians sipping tea.