Meredith Monk's 50th composiversary at Carnegie Hall

Von Jacob Slattery, 05 Mai 2015

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Carnegie Hall: Zankel, New York City, am 2 Mai 2015

Monk, Juice

Monk, Songs from the Hill

Monk, Volcano Songs: Duets

Monk, The Games (Panda Chant I )

Monk, Facing North

Monk, Dolmen Music

Monk, Mercy

Monk, Impermanence

Monk, On Behalf of Nature (Excerpts)

Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble

Katie Geissinger, Mezzosopran

Theo Bleckmann, Sänger

A brief journey into the timeless world of Meredith Monk

Kurt Gottschalk, 23rd September

The North American premiere of Indra's Net finds Meredith Monk back in her familiar, inexplicable realm.

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Voices, voices in space, and spaces: Thoughts on 50 years of Meredith Monk

Rebecca Lentjes, 22nd March

Carnegie’s Zankel Hall hosts a four and a half hour celebration of the work of Meredith Monk.

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Experiments in Opera returns with a strange story of resurrection

Kurt Gottschalk, 7th October

Soprano Gelsey Bell instilled a very human spirit into the role of the troubled widow. The decidedly formal Jeffrey Gavett was well cast as the dead man. Their duets rang with perfection.

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Igor Levit beim Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich: Dominanz und Assistenz

Thomas Schacher, 17th June

Die Wellenlänge zwischen dem Pianisten Igor Levit und dem Dirigenten Paavo Järvi stimmt. Bei Brahms‘ Zweitem Klavierkonzert herrscht große Übereinstimmung des Wollens; und Schumanns Frühlingssymphonie offenbart ihren monomanen Charakter.

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Klarinettenschimmer und Klezmer mit David Orlowsky

Michael Vieth, 14th June

In sieben Streicher eingebettet: David Orlowsky entführte seine Zuhörer faszinierend in die vielschichtige Welt jiddischer Klezmer-Musik.

*****

Formidable Solisten mit Mieczysław Weinberg beim Kissinger Sommer

Michael Vieth, 13th June

Die Geigerin Lena Neudauer, der Cellist Sebastian Klinger und Marianna Shirinyan am Klavier gelingt eine faszinierende Gegenüberstellung von Kammermusik der Komponisten Schostakowitsch und Weinberg.

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Jacob Slattery

Jacob is a musician and raconteur based out of New York City. As a writer, he operates an online arts and culture blog with the goal of providing momentum for community-based arts projects in NYC. As an oboist, Jacob has performed internationally with orchestras from Vienna to Seoul. Born and raised in the lake-ridden, gopher empire of Minnesota, Jacob received a dual-degree in Music Performance and Marketing from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. His blog can be found here.