Birtwistle's Earth Dances: Gripping performance, but is it new music?

Por Cynthia Wilson, 09 marzo 2014

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Crítica hecha desde National Concert Hall: Main Stage, Dublin el 7 marzo 2014

Birtwistle, Earth Dances

National Symphony Orchestra Ireland

Nicholas Cleobury, Dirección

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Cynthia Wilson

Boston-born, educated at Concord Academy and Sarah Lawrence College, Cynthia Wilson studied harpsichord in Amsterdam. She has performed, taught and held significant management positions: public radio, Philips Hall, Rotterdam Philharmonic. Wilson subsequently founded wwclassics: (arts) policy and (events) production. She recently published the biography of Menahem Pressler (Beaux Arts Trio).