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15747
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Glass' 1000 Airplanes Takes Off |
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Lawrence O'Toole |
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A new ninety-minute collaborative musical theater piece called 1000 Airplanes on the Roof is touring the country, having had its American premiere at ...
Issue Date: 1 / 1989
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13786
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Revolutionary—and Conservative: The Mighty CD |
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Todd Culbertson |
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Roll over, Chuck Berry. Beethoven and Toscanini are here to stay. Records, tapes, and compact discs will see to that. Rockers are not the only people with a taste for golden ...
Issue Date: 12 / 1988
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14659
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Mozart at the Trump Tower |
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Lawrence O'Toole |
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During the past three summers at Pepsico''s Summerfare Festival in Purchase, New York, wunderkind director Peter Sellars has taken great pains to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...
Issue Date: 11 / 1988
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14959
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Return to the House of Usher: Philip Glass and Richard Foreman Do Up Poe |
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Anthony Kenny |
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Edgar Allan Poe''s nightmare of dread, The Fall of the House of Usher, has continually inspired visual artists and musicians alike. No less than five film versions exist, the ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1988
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14961
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Chamber Music--Concert-Hall Style: Ashkenazy and Harrell Elevate the Intimate |
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David H. Ehrlich |
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When a pair of internationally renowned soloists like pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and cellist Lynn Harrell work up a program of chamber music and take it on the road, as they did ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1988
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14579
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Resurrecting the Baroque Sound: A Majestic Old Timbre for New Instruments |
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Adri de Groot |
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When the Industrial Revolution eventually reached the centuries-old and virtually unchanged craft of organ building, something terrible happened. The majority of new organs ...
Issue Date: 5 / 1988
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13540
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The Quandary of the CD Owner: The Terrors of Technology |
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Todd Culbertson |
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Technology creates dilemmas. Guests tell Phil Donahue and Oprah Winfrey what they think about test tube babies and artificial hearts. Sometimes, though, technological dilemmas ...
Issue Date: 4 / 1988
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14090
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Nixon in China: A Postmodernist Exercise |
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Kenneth LaFave |
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The world premiere of Nixon in China last October in Houston was the focus of extraordinary press attention and public interest. More than fifty critics were there from around ...
Issue Date: 1 / 1988
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13389
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The Adventures of Re-creating Baroque Opera |
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Tom Pniewski |
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The Baroque era - roughly the years from 1600 to 1750 - was an astonishingly dynamic period in Western cultural history. In art, science, and politics, the achievements of ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1987
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11837
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Scintillating Synthesizers: Wendy Carlos Computer-Generates New Sounds and Scales |
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Lou Fournier |
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I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
- Vincent van Gogh
Her voice shares many of the characteristics of her music: soft, but with ...
Issue Date: 8 / 1987
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12579
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Troyanos Talks: World-Class Prima Donna Discusses Opera |
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Gregory Speck |
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Through the medium of television, the once esoteric and rarified world of grand opera has been lifted out of the exclusive realm of moneyed society and brought into the living ...
Issue Date: 6 / 1987
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12581
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The Serkins: Masters of Past and Present |
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Tom Pniewski |
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The Serkins, Rudolf and Peter, pianist father and pianist son, constitute something special in the music world today. Since their technical proficiency has been demonstrated time ...
Issue Date: 6 / 1987
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12717
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Perils of Crossover: New Recordings of Old Musicals Are a Mixed Blessing |
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Kenneth LaFave |
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Will American musical theater withstand the decades of devotion and distortion that await it? That is the question raised by the release, over the past two years, of several new ...
Issue Date: 3 / 1987
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12172
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Bluegrass--A Distinctly American Brand of Music |
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Richard Spottswood |
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It is difficult to determine whether bluegrass is something relatively new or simply a modern extension of the music made in southern rural America during the last three ...
Issue Date: 2 / 1987
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12174
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A Philip Glass Concert: Much Ado About Nothing |
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Emerson Randolph |
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The currently noted composer Philip Glass brought his performance troupe, the Philip Glass Ensemble, to Lincoln Center''s Avery Fisher Hall last November to present the New York ...
Issue Date: 2 / 1987
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12287
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The Sacred Concerts of Duke Ellington |
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Tom Pniewski |
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This music is the most important thing I''ve ever done or am likely to do. This is personal, not career. Now I can say out loud to all the world what I''ve been saying to myself ...
Issue Date: 1 / 1987
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11586
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Richard Stoltzman: Not a Moment's Boredom |
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Richard Buell |
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Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman''s direct, affectionate manner has often been noticed. In a master class recently he left off explaining what was making a scared young student ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1986
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11587
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New Music at Ravinia |
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Karen E. Petersen |
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An oft-cited shortcoming of summer music festivals in which art music is showcased is the lack of contemporary music programming, since the ballyhoo of orchestral programming ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1986
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11589
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James Reese Europe: A Forgotten Life |
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Rochelle Larkin |
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"New York has always drawn to itself the talent and ambition of young men from every part of the country. Not only were musicians like Jim Europe … drawn to the promise of ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1986
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10814
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The Polished Fire of Verdi's Requiem |
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Emerson Randolph |
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Talk about drama! From the touch-your-soul-awake opening "Requiem" (Eternal rest) until the closing stay-vigilant morendo "Libera me" (Deliver me), Guiseppe Verdi''s Messa da ...
Issue Date: 7 / 1986
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