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16998
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Hal Prince Does Faust |
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Philip Kennicott |
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During the 1890s the Metropolitan Opera house was scornfully dubbed the "Faustspielhaus" because of the inordinate frequency with which it features Gounod''s Faust. Now, a ...
Issue Date: 8 / 1990
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17632
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The Sovereign Juilliard Quartet |
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Tom Pniewski |
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In composing his sixteen string quartets, Beethoven flung down a challenge to the musical world of his own and every succeeding age. Scaling these artistic Everests requires ...
Issue Date: 6 / 1990
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17945
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The Last Truly Civilized Opera |
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Lawrence O'Toole |
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San Francisco''s War Memorial Opera House is one of the most beautiful in the country, because of its simplicity and deceptive size: It has the grandeur of a traditional opera ...
Issue Date: 5 / 1990
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16889
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Not Your Ordinary Symphony |
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Lawrence O'Toole |
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The tenth annual New Music America series, where the audience is urged to expect nothing but the unexpected, opened in November at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (and various ...
Issue Date: 4 / 1990
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16896
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Dark Angels of the Sax |
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Francis Davis |
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"Charlie Parker looked like Buddha," Jack Kerouac declared in a poem about the alto saxophonist who was the single most important figure in the gestation of modern jazz. The beat ...
Issue Date: 4 / 1990
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17198
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Triumph and Travesty at the Met |
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Lawrence O'Toole |
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When all the elements are right, and everything fits into place, nothing can quite touch opera for visceral, emotional, and aesthetic impact. This is a rare occasion, but it has ...
Issue Date: 2 / 1990
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17201
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Reviewing Our Musical Heritage |
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Tom Pniewski |
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American music was "colonial" for a long time after the colonies won political independence from Britain. Up until the First World War, Americans who were serious about their ...
Issue Date: 2 / 1990
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17357
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The Value of New American Music |
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Samuel Lipman |
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The American Composers Orchestra represents a valiant attempt by composers of symphonic music to take the future of their work into their own hands. Founded in 1977, the ACO is ...
Issue Date: 1 / 1990
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17366
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Crescent Moon Over Cleveland |
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Philip Kennicott |
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Cleveland is striving heavily for an urban renaissance. Hotels are being built and a convention center is vying for the sphere change of the usual business transients. Like many ...
Issue Date: 1 / 1990
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17392
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African Contributions to America's Musical Heritage |
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David Evans |
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In recent times, African history and culture have become increasingly important, especially to Americans. This is visible in efforts by some black leaders to foster the adoption ...
Issue Date: 1 / 1990
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16504
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Discovering Unknown Masters |
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Robert R. Reilly |
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Thanks to the Louisville Orchestra and its First Edition Series, through the aid of Albany Records, a wealth of exciting, very American music is being made available on compact ...
Issue Date: 11 / 1989
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16743
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Nicolas Slonimsky: Musical Genius |
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Richard Kostelanetz |
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At a music conference in Sweden about a year ago, the distinguished Argentine-German composer Mauricio Kagel, in the midst of talking about something else, asked, "Have you seen ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1989
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15209
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Brubeck Talks |
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Tom Pniewski |
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Probably no other single musician has been as influential in the development of contemporary jazz as Dave Brubeck. A composer and pianist of wide-ranging interests and ...
Issue Date: 8 / 1989
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15213
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BAM's Magnificent Maiden Effort |
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Lawrence O' Toole |
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It is extremely gratifying, in an age when opera directors are wont to impose their own egos and neuroses on the works of composers, to see and hear a production that allows an ...
Issue Date: 8 / 1989
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16109
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The Big Bang at the Met |
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Peter Lawrence |
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Ground was broken for the new Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in 1962, and the house itself opened in 1966, at a cost of $46 million, with a disastrous production of Samuel ...
Issue Date: 6 / 1989
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16110
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Celebrating 'The Scene' |
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Christopher Manion |
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Washington, D.C.--our nation''s capital, and so much more--presents an entertaining paradox to the musical world. On the one hand, its cultural focus is the John F. Kennedy ...
Issue Date: 6 / 1989
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16185
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Grocery Line Typecasting |
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Elyse Levine |
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While waiting in line at the supermarket cash register, take a look at the contents of other shoppers'' shopping carts: The foods we select can tell a story about us--where we ...
Issue Date: 6 / 1989
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16375
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P.D.Q. Bach's Alter Ego |
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Richard Kostelanetz |
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[Saul] Steinberg''s role automatically disguises itself, and his performance continues to prompt people to ask, "But is he really an artist?"--the question by which each ...
Issue Date: 5 / 1989
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15096
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Rock Gospel: Spreading God's Word |
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Deborah Evans Price |
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Rock ''n'' roll created quite a stir when it burst on the general American music scene in the 1950s. More than thirty years later it continues to generate controversy, making ...
Issue Date: 4 / 1989
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15592
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Kronos: This Is a String Quartet? |
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Anthony Kenny |
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When the four musicians arrive on the stage of Princeton''s Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall it looks more like the beginning of a fashion show than of an evening of ...
Issue Date: 2 / 1989
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