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From the sublime to gobbling turkeys: The MET Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall

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Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Zankel, New York City on 8 March 2015
Stravinsky, Octet for winds
Ives, From the Steeples and the Mountains
Ives, Scherzo "Over the Pavements"
Carter, The American Sublime (World première)
Cage, Atlas eclipticalis
Wuorinen, It Happens Like This
MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
Evan Hughes, Bass-baritone
Charles Wuorinen, Conductor
James Levine’s wand still works its magic
****1
Metropolitan Opera pays tribute to Hvorostovsky
***11
What the conductor tells me: impeccably controlled Mahler
****1
Flute still mesmerizing at The Met
****1
A Rosenkavalier for the radio
***11
Orchestra shines in uneven Idomeneo at the Met
***11
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