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Maestro: The dualities of Leonard Bernstein
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Maestro: The dualities of Leonard Bernstein

Hindustan Times  

One of 2023’s most audacious films was a queasy drama where a self-serious actor attempted to slip into the physicality of a real-life subject in an ill-judged body-snatch for a vanity biopic. Maestro felt more like a big-screen slow clap for Bradley Cooper’s multitasking than Leonard Bernstein’s music. Leonard Bernstein’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard …

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Why the search for the next Gustavo Dudamel is full of hope — and hazards
8 months, 1 week ago

Why the search for the next Gustavo Dudamel is full of hope — and hazards

LA Times  

The excited media coverage last week of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s choice for a new music director treated 28-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä like the second coming of Gustavo Dudamel. Salonen was 26 when he made his U.S. debut conducting the L.A. Phil in 1984, and eight years later he became music director, staying 17 seasons. Each conductor had prominent …

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Commentary: At 86, Zubin Mehta reflects on his career, Mahler and the ‘Mehta Sound’
1 year, 9 months ago

Commentary: At 86, Zubin Mehta reflects on his career, Mahler and the ‘Mehta Sound’

LA Times  

Zubin Mehta walks onstage more slowly than he did in his youthful, dashing days and is helped by a cane. Zubin Mehta conducts the L.A. Philharmonic in Mahler’s Third Symphony at Walt Disney Concert Hall Where does Mehta Sound come from? He once came to my performance of Mahler’s Fifth and didn’t like it.” Zubin Mehta conducts the L.A. Phil …

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Review: The Israel Philharmonic was led by the same conductor for 40-plus years. His successor shines in L.A. debut
2 years, 1 month ago

Review: The Israel Philharmonic was led by the same conductor for 40-plus years. His successor shines in L.A. debut

LA Times  

The Israel Philharmonic, founded the day after Christmas in 1936 as the Palestine Symphony and first conducted by Arturo Toscanini, cannot escape history. Saturday night the Israel Philharmonic performed for the first time at the Soraya, as part of the orchestra’s first overseas tour since the pandemic. This is the orchestra’s first tour with its young and electrifying new music …

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Berlin conductor Petrenko worried `no one needs us anymore’
2 years, 1 month ago

Berlin conductor Petrenko worried `no one needs us anymore’

Associated Press  

Kirill Petrenko thought back to the spring of 2020, when his first season as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic was abruptly stopped by the coronavirus pandemic. When concerts resumed with a chamber-sized orchestra in Berlin’s empty Philharmonie that May 1 with a digital feed, Petrenko likened it to when Glenn Gould abandoned playing piano live and retreated to the …

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Gustavo Dudamel and Cynthia Erivo lead a great L.A. Phil gala
3 years, 2 months ago

Gustavo Dudamel and Cynthia Erivo lead a great L.A. Phil gala

LA Times  

Homecoming can easily turn fraught. A pop star made an appearance with three songs, one of them being Leonard Bernstein’s evergreen “Somewhere.” An upbeat short new piece commissioned by a familiar composer opened the program. That’s right, no glittery confetti celebrating the momentous occasion of the L.A. Phil’s first concert back in Walt Disney Concert Hall since March 8, 2020. …

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Symphony elaborates on Mahler's China variations
3 years, 3 months ago

Symphony elaborates on Mahler's China variations

China Daily  

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs a concert featuring complementary works by Gustav Mahler and Ye Xiaogang. The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 2021-22 season on Sept 4, with a concert entitled The Song of the Earth. However, the concert featured the same pieces as on the recording: Austrian composer Gustav Mahler's song symphony Das Lied von der Erde, and Ye …

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Symphony elaborates on Mahler's China variations
3 years, 3 months ago

Symphony elaborates on Mahler's China variations

China Daily  

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs a concert featuring complementary works by Gustav Mahler and Ye Xiaogang. The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 2021-22 season on Sept 4, with a concert entitled The Song of the Earth. However, the concert featured the same pieces as on the recording: Austrian composer Gustav Mahler's song symphony Das Lied von der Erde, and Ye …

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