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Music Review | Aprile Millo: Strauss, Neapolitan Tunes and a Festive Singalong
The soprano Aprile Millo made her New York recital debut with an eclectic program of works by Donaudy, Wolf-Ferrari and Rachmaninoff at the Rose Theater on Tuesday.
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Music Review | Philip Glass: Glass Looks to the Heavens, Again
Mr. Glass’s weighty and tangled opera, “Kepler,” which arrived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday, examines the relationship between science and religion.
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Music Review | Lyrics & Lyricists: A Bit of Jive Stands Out at a Tribute to Mercer
Sheldon Harnick was the only performer able to capture intact the lighthearted glee of Mercer’s comic imagination in the tribute at the 92nd St. Y on Wednesday.
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Music Review | American Classical Orchestra: An Intimate Concert, With Original Instruments
The ensemble’s program of works by Haydn and Mozart on Wednesday at the New York Society for Ethical Culture was informed, earnest and lively.
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Music Review | Jesus Lizard: Post-Punk Returnees, Definitely Not Unplugged
Jesus Lizard’s show on Tuesday at the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza was extravagantly good.
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Music Review | Afiara String Quartet: Prizewinners Arrive, Displaying Their Energy
The Afiara String Quartet clearly has something going for it, but at its concert at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday, it was not entirely clear what that something was.
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Music Review | New York Woodwind Quintet: Exulting in the Orneriness of a Composer’s Composer
The audacity of Ralph Shapey’s music came through vividly with the a Shapey program’s first chamber work, performed by the New York Woodwind Quintet.
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Opening Arms and Ears to Cuban Music
The very slightest hint of a thaw in cultural relations between the United States and Cuba has quietly brought the the Cuban band Septeto Nacional to New York.
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Music Review | The Zukerman Chamber Players: Starting a Chamber Series With a Bittersweet Brahms
Pinchas Zukerman and his ensemble play an annual series at the 92nd Street Y, and on Sunday they and guest performers offered this season’s opening installment.
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Music Review | In the Wings: Twice as Many Antics for the Duck, the Cat and the Wolf
The London company In the Wings has developed a 30-minute “prequel” to Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” with new music by Philip Feeney.
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Music Review | Ensemble Caprice: Finding Bohemian Influences in Baroque
In a concert called “Bach and the Bohemian Gypsies” at the Miller Theater on Saturday, the excellent Ensemble Caprice offered selections from the Uhrovska Collection of 1730.
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Music Review | Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Mixing Contemporary (Cough) With Difficult (Cough) Classical
The brilliant French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard enjoys giving recital programs that mix old and new works in ways intended to intrigue, delight and even rattle audiences.
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Music Review | 'Blackened Music Weekend': Repetitive Guitar Strums Rooted in Metal but Not Confined by It
During “Blackened Music Weekend” — three shows presented by Blackened Music at Union Pool and Le Poisson Rouge — Krallice and Shrinebuilder were among the headliners.
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Music Review: Christian Rock Borrows an Edge From iPhone
It only took a mere $8.97 for David Crowder*Band to demonstrate that it’s in a different league from its Christian rock peers.
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In Search of a Father in Search of the Blues
Music critics’ lives don’t often inspire much fascination. But Robert Palmer, the chief popular music critic of The New York Times in the 1980s, was different.
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Robert Palmer
Music Review | Sleigh Bells: Distortion With Pop Peeping Out
Sleigh Bells concerts are beginning to find a rhythm.
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Arts, Briefly: Following Up Oasis
Liam Gallagher, former guitarist and vocalist of Oasis, said that he and other members of the recently defunct band were forming a new group, Reuters reported.
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Arts, Briefly: Iranian Musician Declares His Protest
The popular Iranian singer and composer Mohammad Reza Shajarian has asked that state radio and television stop broadcasting his work, The Associated Press reported.
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Arts, Briefly: More Recovery Time for Conductor
The conductor Leonard Slatkin has canceled appearances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The Detroit Free Press reported.
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Music Review | Goodie Mob: Reunion of the Group That Put Atlanta on the Rap Map
Goodie Mob arrived, following several years of fracture, as part of its reunion tour.
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Music Review | Eccentric Soul Revue: Yowling and Yelping: Back-in-the-Day Soul Hits Become of the Moment Again
A Chicago label that delves into obscure archives for meticulously researched reissues brought its dapper, potent Eccentric Soul Revue to the Music Hall of Williamsburg.
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Music Review | Leif Ove Andsnes: Sound and Vision: A Piano Recital With a Multimedia Heart
The remarkable Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes played so magnificently that he was not for the most part overwhelmed by the video accompaniment.
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Michael Feinstein to Lead Jazz at Lincoln Center Series
Jazz at Lincoln Center is bringing classic American popular song into its fold with the appointment of the singer and pianist Michael Feinstein as director of its new popular music series.
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Music Review | Berlin Philharmonic: Some Kibitzing for Brahms From the Cape Verde Islands
As Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic were finishing their cycle of Brahms’s four symphonies, musical sounds from the basement wafted through Carnegie Hall.
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Critics' Choice: New CDs
New releases from Norah Jones, 50 Cent, Myron Walden and Kid Sister.
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Generation B: Anything He Can Do, She Can Do
A classical pianist who came out as a transgender woman a decade ago shares her story of determination.
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Spotlight | Morristown: A Tribute to Kinship and Nostalgia
When the Smithereens play the Community Theater at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts in Morristown, the front man expects many of the band’s original fans to be front and center.
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Arts | Westchester: Young Star, Old Master and a Fresh Take on Mozart
Anthony McGill will play the clarinet at the Westchester Philharmonic, with Itzhak Perlman conducting, at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College.
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In Concert: Talent, Style and Sequins
The organist Cameron Carpenter defies tradition with his interpretations and personality.
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New Web Services Turn Ticket Buying Into a Social Occasion
Ticketfly is one of several tech-heavy young companies working to bring ticketing into the social-networking age.
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Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Zhang Returns, With the Familiar and Otherwise
On Thursday evening Xian Zhang was back at Avery Fisher Hall to lead the New York Philharmonic in works by Haydn, Martinu and Sibelius.
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A Soprano’s Hat Trick: Puccini Triple Bill
Patricia Racette tackles all three leading female roles in Jack O’Brien’s staging of Puccini’s “Il Trittico” at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Foo Fighters’ Pilot Roosts With Vultures
Dave Grohl keeps evolving, from Nirvana’s drummer to the leader of two other groups.
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Playlist: Sounds From Around the World, Some Dark, Others Delicate
Reviews of releases by Ithamara Koorax, Juarez Moreira, Egberto Gismonti, Group Doueh, Krallice and Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou.
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Opera Review | 'From the House of the Dead': Two Debuts, Overdue and Overwhelming, at the Metropolitan Opera
Both the renowned director Patrice Chéreau and the dynamic conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen made their overdue Met debuts in Leos Janacek’s unorthodox and moving production of “From the House of the Dead” on Thursday.
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Dick Katz, 85, Jazzman of Many Gifts Over 6 Decades, Is Dead
Mr. Katz was a pianist, record producer and writer whose knowledge of jazz made him a valuable presence on New York’s jazz scene for six decades.
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Hollywood Swoons Over That Hair, That Baton
Gustavo Dudamel, the 28-year-old maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has penetrated the consciousness of popular culture in the way of Leonard Bernstein.
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Music Review | Steve Tyrell: Bottomless Songbook With New Orleans Twist
Steve Tyrell exuded confidence in his performance of pop chestnuts sung in a growly New Orleans style at the Café Carlyle on Tuesday.
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Music Review | Juilliard Opera: A Condemned Princess, Freed With Global Voices
Under Stephen Wadsworth’s thoughtful direction, the Juilliard Opera’s production of “Ariodante” focused its attention on the gifted international cast.
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Music Review | Berlin Philharmonic: Brahms Alone, and With Schoenberg’s Big Tweak
Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic offered a thrilling program built around the Brahms symphonies on Wednesday evening at Carnegie Hall.
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When Courageous Artists Ripped Holes in the Iron Curtain
A festival of theater, dance, music and film examines how the performing arts contributed to the fall of Communism in Warsaw Pact countries.
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Music Review: Country Music Awards Attain New Levels of Inclusion
Taylor Swift, 19, became the youngest Entertainer of the Year and Darius Rucker was the first African-American to win Male Vocalist of the Year since 1972.
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Music Review: Sounds of China, Unveiled Like an Iris
Chen Qigang’s “Iris Dévoilée” (“Iris Unveiled”), from 2001, brought Carnegie Hall’s Ancient Paths, Modern Voices festival to a close.
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