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Modern ballet compelling enough to compete with the old stones

BAALBECK: One by one, the 37 dancers of the Bejart Ballet Lausanne trickled onto stage to warm up.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Classical, Vivaldi, Antonio Vivaldi, Igor Stravinsky

Tue Jul 07, 2009

SFGate

Matt Small plays big blend of jazz, classics

In Matt Small's expansive music, modern classical horn parts sing over funky electric bass figures and roiling drums.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Haight (San Francisco, CA), San Francisco Metro, Classical, Weather Report, Jazz, Art Blakey

Sun Jul 05, 2009

The Gazette

Symphony, with Levine, opens season

As if making up for time lost on his medical leave last summer, music director James Levine led off Friday's concert with an exciting example of his agenda, beginning with Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony, a chestnut that usually concludes a concert - a later one in the season, at that.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bach

Thu Jul 02, 2009

NPR

New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel (conductor); 'L'oiseau de feu...

'L'oiseau de feu , concert suite for orchestra No. 2' Listen Now [28 sec] Artist: Composer: Stravinsky, Igor CD Title: Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No.

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Related Topix: Classical

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

BBC Proms: under the trance of Stravinsky

Primal energy: the English National Ballet performs Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' In the landscape of music there are those occasional solitary peaks we call masterpieces.

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Related Topix: Classical, Igor Stravinsky

Sat Jun 27, 2009

TheCelebrityCafe

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa - Stravinski: The Rite of Spring CD Review

Alphabetical Listing Home : CD reviews : Classical : The Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa The Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa - Stravinski: The Rite of Spring - When Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' opened, the debate about it was so fierce that a riot ensued and the theatre suffered a fire.

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Related Topix: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Classical, Seiji Ozawa

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Detroit Free Press

Bad Plus links acoustic jazz with pop culture

The Bad Plus, an alt-acoustic piano trio, has won a wide following by maintaining a running dialogue with popular culture through canny covers of material by Black Sabbath, Nirvana and others.

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Related Topix: The Bad Plus, Jazz, Milton Babbitt, Classical, Gyorgy Ligeti, Wayne State University, Detroit Metro

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Financial Times

Arts around the world

Amsterdam Robeco Zomerconcerten Performers from around Europe join the stars of the Netherlands' rich classical and jazz music scenes for the 20th annual Zomerconcerten series, a programme of musical performances at the city's Concertgebouw, opening on June 27.

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Related Topix: Classical, Symphony, Arts, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Jazz, Cleo Laine

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Montreal Gazette

Ornette Coleman, jazz's free spirit

Fifty years ago, the jazz world should have belonged to Miles Davis, who released the coolest and most seductive album in its history, Kind of Blue, which also revolutionized the music with improvisations upon vaguely exotic-sounding "modal" scales .

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Related Topix: Ornette Coleman, Jazz, Miles Davis, Black Entertainment, Classical, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Iron Tongue of Midnight

L'Oiseau de Feu

Lisa Hirsch's Classical Music Blog. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.

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Related Topix: Classical

Thu Jun 18, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Violinist Tracy Silverman and Eclectica Release...

Super-funky, remarkably flexible and wide open to the moment, the aptly named Eclectica captures magic on the fly on Streaming Video Soul , its adventurous ArtistShare debut.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Kirk Whalum, Science / Technology, Inventions, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Classical, John Coltrane, Black Entertainment

Tue Jun 16, 2009

Kazinform

Russian soprano wins Singer of the World

MOSCOW. June 16. KAZINFORM. Russian soprano Yekaterina Shcherbachenko has been named the BBC Singer of the World 2009 after winning the world's most prestigious operatic competition in Cardiff, the broadcaster said; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

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Related Topix: Classical

Sun Jun 14, 2009

UTV

Ekaterina Shcherbachenko

Russian soprano Ekaterina Shcherbachenko has been crowned BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2009.

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Related Topix: Travel, United Kingdom Travel, Cardiff, United Kingdom Travel, Classical

Sat Jun 13, 2009

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Monadnock Music's 44th Season Gala Opening

MONADNOCK MUSIC ANNOUNCES 44th SEASON GALA OPENING WEEKEND CONDUCTOR JAMES BOLLE, 'UNEQUALED MUSIC', AUCTION FUNDRAISER AT ORIBE BARN, FIRST-EVER COLLABORATION WITH THE MACDOWELL COLONY Monadnock Music's 44th season begins with two free Beethoven Trail concerts at Sullivan United Congregational Church on July 9, 2009, 7:30PM and at Deering ...

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Related Topix: The String Quartet, Classical, Jaffrey, NH

Wed Jun 10, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Russian Violin Recital CD review

Prokofiev: Five Pieces from 'Cinderella'. Stravinsky: Chanson russe; Danse russe Lydia Mordkovitch , Nicholas Walker & Julian Milford Chandos CHAN 10526, 12.72 Lydia Mordkovitch has delved into the nether regions of violin and viola repertoire for this fascinating CD, which for the most part steers clear of composers who are generally reckoned to ...

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Related Topix: Classical

Sun Jun 07, 2009

Channelnewsasia.com

Opera whirred free

SINGAPORE: Few classical music lovers are aware of this - up-and-coming Singapore conductor Joshua Tan, who won second prize in the prestigious Dmitri Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in Greece last year, used to be a part-time deejay at MediaCorp's Symphony 92.4. "This was back in 2005 and looking back, it was a rather fun ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Classical, Symphony, Igor Stravinsky, National University

Thu Jun 04, 2009

WABI-TV Bangor

BSO Ends Season on Youthful Note

A classical concert performed before a contemporary audience. The Bangor Symphony Orchestra wrapped up its 113th season today, with a special show.

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Related Topix: Bangor Metro, Symphony, Arts, Bangor, ME, Tchaikovsky, Classical

Tue Jun 02, 2009

New Hampshire's guide to restaurants,...

Monadnock Music Announces 44th Season

Monadnock Music's 44th season begins with two free Beethoven Trail concerts at Sullivan United Congregational Church on July 9, 2009, 7:30PM and at Deering Community Church on July 10th at 7:30PM. Both concerts' Beethoven Trail offering is the String Quartet in E flat, Op.

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Related Topix: The String Quartet, Classical, Copland, Jaffrey, NH

Mon Jun 01, 2009

Detroit Free Press

How Stephen Hartke found his voice

One way to think about Stephen Hartke is that he represents the triumph of the post-everything classical composer.

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Related Topix: Classical, Detroit, MI

Sat May 30, 2009

Worcester Magazine

JOMP throws itself a party

Worcester's Joy of Music Program, better known as JOMP, is at it again with their annual Spring Gala, a celebration of their mission and the school's impact on its students and the community.

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Related Topix: Classical, Mozart, Bach, Boccherini, Boston University, Berklee College of Music

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