Articles by Year: La Folia, 2016.
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Italian Vacation 13.
In Verrando’s universe, noise enriches but does not obliterate.
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You Too Can Program Your Local Symphony!
Yes, that time of year has arrived when one orchestra after another trickles in with season brochures.
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You Too Can Program Your Local Symphony!
Yes, that time of year has arrived when one orchestra after another trickles in with season brochures.
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Diary of a Pianist’s Day
The morning went quickly
starting with unidentified birds
hidden in the trees
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Diary of a Pianist’s Day
The morning went quickly
starting with unidentified birds
hidden in the trees
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Utopian Listening: Reinvigorating Nono in America
Years from now, we will look back at a conference held in Boston at the end of March 2016 as the defining event that reinvigorated worldwide – American especially – interest in the work of Luigi Nono.
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Utopian Listening: Reinvigorating Nono in America
Years from now, we will look back at a conference held in Boston at the end of March 2016 as the defining event that reinvigorated worldwide – American especially – interest in the work of Luigi Nono.
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(Dis)Arrangements 7: Beethoven
This Ninth is fascinating, hugely musical, a testament to Beethoven and Liszt’s combined brilliance.
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(Dis)Arrangements 7: Beethoven
This Ninth is fascinating, hugely musical, a testament to Beethoven and Liszt’s combined brilliance.
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String Theory 18: Bundled Quartets and a few Trios
I imagine that Gorton enjoys a good joke. In Fosdyke Wash, a sighing cello part is marked “like distant agricultural machinery.” At that point, the cello sounds like a mewling chainsaw at a far remove.
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String Theory 18: Bundled Quartets and a few Trios
I imagine that Gorton enjoys a good joke. In Fosdyke Wash, a sighing cello part is marked “like distant agricultural machinery.” At that point, the cello sounds like a mewling chainsaw at a far remove.
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Soloists Steal Spotlight in Carnegie Hall Concerts
Two international-class orchestras came to Carnegie Hall within two weeks of each other, performing under the capable batons of highly (and deservedly) acclaimed conductors.
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Soloists Steal Spotlight in Carnegie Hall Concerts
Two international-class orchestras came to Carnegie Hall within two weeks of each other, performing under the capable batons of highly (and deservedly) acclaimed conductors.
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Feldman’s SQ2 in Boston
There were rubberneckers who wandered in for shorter periods to catch a lingering glimpse of this anomaly, but about 80 of us stuck through to the transcendent end.
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Feldman’s SQ2 in Boston
There were rubberneckers who wandered in for shorter periods to catch a lingering glimpse of this anomaly, but about 80 of us stuck through to the transcendent end.
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An American?
John McGuire is proof that music in the late 20th century and early 21st century may be simple without teetering into asininity.
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An American?
John McGuire is proof that music in the late 20th century and early 21st century may be simple without teetering into asininity.
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Henze, Abrahamsen and Tsontakis with the BSO
I may have been the only person at Symphony Hall in Boston on a Saturday evening last month more eager to hear Henze than the preceding Weber or subsequent Mendelssohn.
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Henze, Abrahamsen and Tsontakis with the BSO
I may have been the only person at Symphony Hall in Boston on a Saturday evening last month more eager to hear Henze than the preceding Weber or subsequent Mendelssohn.
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String Theory 17: 21 String Quartets
The versatile Kreutzer Quartet takes a whirl in the time machine and journeys to Australia for four string quartets composed between 1964 and ‘75.
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String Theory 17: 21 String Quartets
The versatile Kreutzer Quartet takes a whirl in the time machine and journeys to Australia for four string quartets composed between 1964 and ‘75.
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Après l’artisanat furieux or Post-Boulez
Most of us can only look back and marvel at the mid-century Darmstadt classes, at Boulez’s overlapping tenures with the Cleveland Orchestra, the BBC Symphony and the New York Philharmonic, and the creation of IRCAM.
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Après l’artisanat furieux or Post-Boulez
Most of us can only look back and marvel at the mid-century Darmstadt classes, at Boulez’s overlapping tenures with the Cleveland Orchestra, the BBC Symphony and the New York Philharmonic, and the creation of IRCAM.