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Classical music, dead or alive: A debate
He sees the present, I see the future
After 40 years of representing Classical musicians, my agent is giving up. He offers an impressive list of reasons why serious music is doomed. But where he sees disaster, I see opportunity— especially if Classical musicians are genuinely creative.
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"Porgy and Bess' on Broadway
Whose Porgy is it, anyway?
Tinker with Gershwin's Porgy and Bess? Why not? Producers have been doing it for 75 years, beginning with the composer himself.
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Allen Krantz at Laurel Hill
A lucky accident
Accidentally forced to give a rare solo program, the guitarist-composer Allen Krantz demonstrated his skills as a teacher and speaker.
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Tempesta di Mare at the Barnes
What would Albert Barnes say? Better ask: What would Vivaldi say?
Tempesta di Mare's first appearance at the Barnes triggered ruminations on concert settings, amplification and, of course, the wisdom of moving the Barnes itself.
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Met's "Tales of Hoffman' in HD-Live (3 years later)
What a difference three years make
Seeing the Met's 2009 Tales of Hoffman, I'm struck by the exceptional changes that three years have wrought. Since then, James Levine is gone, Anna Netrebko has declined, and other companies have done more justice to Offenbach's work.
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Atzilut: Jews and Arabs at Bryn Mawr
A musical solution for the Middle East
How to prevent Jews and Arabs from fighting? Get them to start singing.
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"Music As Alchemy': Inside the great conductors
The work behind the wand (from both sides of the podium)
How do conductors elicit great sounds from their musicians? In Music As Alchemy, Tom Service follows six prominent conductors as they pursue their arcane trade. Who knew that Claudio Abbado steadfastly avoids unionized orchestras?
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Can computers replace composers?
With Darwin and a computer, who needs Mozart?
When Beethoven was a little baby/ Sittin' on his daddy's knee,/ He picked up an iPhone, little CD-ROM,/ Said, “Computer's gonna be the death of me, Lawd, Lawd”¦.”
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Can black opera save Classical music?
Beyond Leontyne Price: For whom the black operatic bell tolls
Exciting and innovative black operas are struggling because white audiences tend to avoid them. But all classical music groups are struggling because white audiences tend to avoid them. Is there a common cause here? And might there be a solution to both problems?
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Rachmaninoff's "Aleko' by Russian Opera Workshop
A Rachmaninoff opera? Who knew?
No major American company in this country has ever produced Rachmaninoff's unfortunately neglected Aleko. Ghenady Meirson's Russian Opera Workshop offered a taste of what we've missed.
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