Meredith Monk's 50th composiversary at Carnegie Hall

Par Jacob Slattery, 05 mai 2015

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Critique faite à Carnegie Hall: Zankel, New York, le 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, Mezzo-soprano

Theo Bleckmann, Voix

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.

*****

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.

*****

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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À Lyon, le triomphe de Thomas Guggeis aux mains d’argent

Tristan Labouret, 30th April

Le chef allemand délivre une véritable leçon de direction d'orchestre dans la Première Symphonie de Prokofiev et dans Petrouchka de Stravinsky, éclipsant les Variations rococo peu inspirées de Jeremias Fliedl.

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Frank Peter Zimmermann et le National ont Beethoven dans la peau

Pierre Michel, 30th April

Dans le Concerto pour violon de Beethoven, le violoniste allemand et la phalange parisienne ont montré leur belle complicité, avant une Première Symphonie de Brahms décevante sous la direction de Cristian Măcelaru.

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L’elfe Fujita et le paladin van Zweden conquièrent la Philharmonie

Pierre Michel, 29th April

Le pianiste japonais a livré une interprétation joueuse et virevoltante du Concerto pour piano n° 21 de Mozart, avant que le Philhar' ne s'attaque à une Septième Symphonie de Bruckner conquérante.

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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.