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WQXR on-air hosts participate in “Play Me, I’m Yours”
Published: June 18, 2010Leaving the cozy confines of their radio studios behind for the afternoon, Classical 105.9 WQXR hosts Jeff Spurgeon and Naomi Lewin will head out to make music with listeners as part of the street piano project “Play Me, I’m Yours.” From 12:30-1.30pm on Thursday, June 24, Spurgeon and Lewin, the morning- and afternoon-drive WQXR hosts, will be stationed at the project’s Columbus Circle location (at Merchant’s Gate, the southwest entrance to Central Park), inviting listeners to come out and join them.
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Thomas Hampson’s summer features Mahler celebrations and more
Published: June 17, 2010Long regarded as the premier interpreter of the songs of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Thomas Hampson will dedicate much of his summer and the upcoming 2010-11 season to performances of the Austrian composer’s works. The celebration begins with Hampson’s recital from Mahler’s birth-house in Kaliste, Czech Republic, on July 7 – the date of Mahler’s birth 150 years ago – that will be web-cast live on medici.tv – and an evening concert from Kaliste with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Manfred Honeck, which the European Broadcasting Union will transmit live across Europe.
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Gil Shaham plays concertos from Bach to Barber at summer festivals
Published: June 16, 2010Shaham begins his 2010 summer schedule at the 38thInternational Viola Congress in Cincinnati. On Saturday, June 19, Shaham will play the violin in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, and he will be joined by a different young violist in each of the three movements. At the congress’s final concert on Sunday, July 20, Shaham and his wife, violinist Adele Anthony will contribute to the compelling instrumentation of Brahms’s Sextet No. 1.
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Deborah Voigt’s “winning” Minnie portrayal is a hit
Published: June 15, 2010On June 9, Deborah Voigt, America’s top dramatic soprano, marked another milestone in her career when she returned to San Francisco Opera and made her title role debut as the pistol-packing, poker-playing barmaid in Puccini’s Gold Rush extravaganza, La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West). Running through July 2, the new San Francisco production is the first North American staging to celebrate the opera’s centenary.
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Bard’s Beloved Spiegeltent Returns for SummerScape 2010
Published: June 14, 2010The opening of the 2010 Bard SummerScape festival on Thursday, July 8, signals the return of the authentic, one-of-a-kind Belgian Spiegeltent, the luxurious “tent of mirrors” that has proved such a sensation since 2006, when its introduction to Bard marked the first time one of these fabled old-world structures appeared in America
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard resumes artistic directorship of Aldeburgh
Published: June 10, 2010“Protean keyboard personality”* Pierre-Laurent Aimard kicks off his summer festival season in June, when he returns to England’s Aldeburgh Festival for the second year of his tenure as Artistic Director (June 11-27). His first was a resounding triumph: “Even his critics are heralding this year’s Aldeburgh Festival...as one of the best programs for years,” reported the Economist last summer, and in Aimard’s hands the festival has remained true to its fabled heritage while reflecting his own musical passions.
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EMI Classics & Virgin Classics June 2010 releases
Published: June 08, 2010Virgin Classics and EMI Classics Begin Celebrating Two Significant Anniversaries: Mahler’s 150th – with Paavo Järvi’s New Recording of Monumental “Resurrection” Symphony and 16-CD Set of Composer’s Complete Works – and Schumann’s 200th, with Four Lavish Boxed Sets. Also This Month from EMI Classics: Fischer-Dieskau and Rostropovich Are among Stars Who Share Exclusive Insights on Classical Legends – In Their Own Words, While Nigel Kennedy Quintet Takes Listeners on “Engaging Ramble around Nigel-Land” with Shhh!
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Alan Gilbert’s June Concerts with NY Philharmonic
Published: June 06, 2010Following a trio of triumphant sold-out performances of György Ligeti’s opera, Le Grand Macabre, Alan Gilbert turns to the final concerts of his inaugural season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. Highlights of his three upcoming programs at Avery Fisher Hall are an appearance by Gilbert as violist in Brahms’s Sextet No. 2 with musicians of the New York Philharmonic (June 12 at 2pm), and season-ending performances of Beethoven’s monumental Missa Solemnis, paired with the world premiere of Al largo, a new work by Magnus Lindberg – the orchestra’s Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence – commissioned by the New York Philharmonic (June 23, 24, and 26). Detailed information on each program, including an additional concert by Gilbert and the Philharmonic at Newark’s NJPAC, follows below.
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Kirill Gerstein “shows his stripes” at Gilmore Keyboard Festival
Published: June 05, 2010All ears were trained on Kirill Gerstein as he took the stage at the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan in May. In his review of Gerstein’s performance at the festival’s gala on May 8, Stuart Isacoff of the Wall Street Journal commended Gerstein for his “blazing technique, including a wonderful command of color and nuance” and wrote that, “The Gershwin was magnificent, with a sense of playfulness and stylistic flair seldom encountered.” In January, the Russian-born pianist became the sixth recipient of the coveted Gilmore Artist Award, worth $300,000 and described as “music’s answer to the MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ grants” (New York Times).
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Cued Up on Q2 –new music recorded live in NYC – kicks off June 27
Published: June 03, 2010(June 3, 2010, New York, NY) -- Q2 – Classical 105.9 WQXR’s 24-hour contemporary classical music stream available at www.wqxr.org/q2 – presents Cued Up on Q2, a new summer festival of pioneering and invigorating new music performances recorded live at New York City’s most adventurous venues.