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Garwood's "Scarlet Letter,' by AVA (1st review)
Hester's little secret
Margaret Garwood's new opera may not contain any soaring arias, but its final moment is a monument to the immorality of overbearing morality.
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Astral Artists' Brahms Festival
Brahms ‘til you drop
Astral showcased its young performers in an attention-getting event that crammed three concerts into a single day. It may be a stunt, but it's a high-class stunt with a serious purpose.
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4 minute read
Guitarist John McLaughlin at the Keswick
Here's the talent. Where's the love?
John McLaughlin is one of the best guitarists playing today. But technical proficiency isn't easy to translate into passion.
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2 minute read
Orchestra 2001: From China to Scotland
Chinese visions, highland memories
Orchestra 2001 presented a globetrotting program that bridged the divide between entertainment and art while it linked the Eastern and Western musical traditions.
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4 minute read
Bourgeois morality tales: "Traviata' vs. 'Lulu' (3rd review)
When the opera makes no sense, try reading the book
Verdi's La Traviata and Berg's Lulu seem worlds apart sonically and dramatically, but they share a vision of the bourgeois world in which an untrammeled female temptress is sacrificed, in one case on the altar of respectability and on the other to Jack the Ripper's knife. Now, where is the composer who'll do justice to the Age of Madoff?
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8 minute read
Yannick and the Orchestra (5th review)
Rattle's ghost, R.I.P.
Under Yannick Nézet-Séguin's baton, the Philadelphians delivered more presence and more color to Mahler's Fifth than Simon Rattle's Berliners did. Nézet-Séguin makes his intentions clear to the musicians, perhaps because he, like most of his players, is a North American.
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4 minute read
Yannick and the Orchestra: a dissent (4th review)
His missing ingredient: maturity
Yannick Nézet-Séguin can wow a crowd, but can he keep them? Haydn seemed closer to his own sunny disposition in his debut performances, but it's far too early for judgment yet. In the meantime, the Philadelphia Orchestra's Dutoit semi-era continues.
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6 minute read
Dresden Staatskapelle's "Brahms Requiem'
Brahms and the magic carpet ride
Guest conductor Daniel Harding led a massive ensemble with firm control, but he sounded overly reverential and insufficiently emotive.
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3 minute read
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Yannick and the Orchestra (3rd review)
Mahler and Yannick: Two peas in a pod?
Yannick Nézet-Séguin's choice of Mahler for his introductory concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra was no accident: The two musicians share a great deal in common. In the process, Nézet-Séguin demonstrated why the sometimes-scorned Mahler deserves a place among the great symphonic composers.
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Yannick and the Orchestra (2nd review)
A child shall lead them, or: 'You've got to see this guy conduct!'
Yannick Nézet-Séguin's childlike enthusiasm transformed his post-appointment debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra into one of the most joyous nights of music making I've ever seen or heard.
