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Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler (2nd review)
Mahler’s tortured world
Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony had nothing to do with Christ and everything to do with the tormented composer’s own yearning for a better life after this one.
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Yefim Bronfman at the Perelman
Adventures of the sonata
The three sonatas programmed by Yefim Bronfman in his Perelman Theater recital told a tale of an artist moving from classical assurance to anxious assertion to violent despair.
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Calvin Hampton: An appreciation
An American genius
Calvin Hampton dared to take musical chances. While the results are uneven, his better compositions deserve a place in the repertoire.
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The 'Klinghoffer' kerfuffle
How to respond to Klinghoffer
Censoring art has been an irresistible temptation since Plato’s time. It was a bad idea in ancient Greece, and it’s a bad idea today, as the kerfuffle over John Adams’s Death of Klinghoffer illustrates.
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Renaissance and Al Stewart at the Keswick
The renaissance of Renaissance
Both Renaissance and Al Stewart are certainly still best known for their work of four decades past, yet in their performance at the Keswick, they amply demonstrated that while time can leave its inevitable mark on an artist, well-crafted and expertly-performed work always remains unscathed.
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Nézet-Séguin Conducts Mahler (1st review)
From Walter to Bernstein to Yannick
Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, once a rarity, now faces the danger of becoming too familiar. Yannick Nézet-Séguin toned it down a notch, to good effect.
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Tempesta di Mare plays Praetorious and Bach
The songs of the cosmic bourgeois
Tempesta di Mare presents a Baroque concert that makes a good companion to the Charles Ives concert the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presented earlier in the same week.
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Netrebko in Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’
Seeing is believing
Anna Netrebko triumphs as Lady Macbeth, but you’d never know it by listening only.
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Copland's 'Shall We Gather at the River'
Moved to tears
There’s music I like more than Aaron Copland’s “Shall We Gather at the River?” that does not make me cry, so what is the power of this piece?
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Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish perform Charles Ives
Ives thrives with Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish
Charles Ives broke open the warp and woof of American music in a way that no other composer has before or since. Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish provide the celebration he deserves.
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