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Thursday | Pasadena Star-News

Fireworks for L.A. Phil

If the L.A. Philharmonic opening night concert was any indication, Esa-Pekka Salonen is going out in a blaze of glory.

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Related Topix: Classical, Igor Stravinsky, Arts, Opera

Tue Oct 07, 2008

Music and Vision Daily

Stravinsky in Tokyo

Fifty-year-old Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is a champion of twentieth-century classical music and a charismatic music director who has turned the Los Angeles Philharmonic, founded in 1919 ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Europe, Finland, World News, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Arts, Ballet, Dance, Infernal

Sun Oct 05, 2008

The Japan Times

MUSIC Classical maverick tackles pop music

"In about 20 years, we will rarely hear Brahms in the concert hall; we will mostly hear contemporary music." A bold prediction, particularly as dwindling audiences for classical music have most orchestras ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Brahms, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Symphony, Arts

Fri Oct 03, 2008

Tacoma News Tribune

Elvis is in the building for Sinfonietta

OK, hands up if you've seen a bassoon player do a solo in front of an orchestra.

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Related Topix: Classical, Seattle Metro, Tacoma Metro, Tacoma, WA, Michael Daugherty

Wed Oct 01, 2008

The Valve

The idea of order and the problem of Stravinsky

The heated, often deeply antagonistic exchange that has developed in the comments to my post on David Foster Wallace reminds me of something from the recent past of my graduate studies.

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Related Topix: Classical, Mozart

Mon Sep 29, 2008

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aboriginal ballet hits Paris stage

The Australian Ballet took to the Paris stage for the first time in 43 years last night with contemporary dance company Bangarra for a double-act tribute to age-old Aboriginal culture.

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Related Topix: Igor Stravinsky, Classical, Arts, Ballet

Sun Sep 28, 2008

Times Online

A powerful symbol of reconciliation

Stephen Page, the artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, is disarmingly honest.

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Related Topix: Arts, Dance, Classical, Kevin Rudd, Ballet

Thu Sep 25, 2008

All About Jazz

Charles Pillow: Part 1 - Crossing the Divide between Jazz and Classical Repertoire

While jazz began as a form of entertainment, it has evolved into a more serious musical genre.

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Related Topix: Debussy, Bartok, Classical, John Coltrane, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, George Gershwin

Tue Sep 23, 2008

Scotsman.com

Theatre steps in with ballet bonanza shows a Triple bill of ballets...

A TRIPLE bill of ballets celebrating the famous composer Stravinsky will be performed at the Festival Theatre.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Classical

Sun Sep 21, 2008

The Independent

Close-up: Christopher Wheeldon

It can't be easy being told that the future of your art form depends on you. And at first glance, making plotless dances to complicated music by Stravinsky looks like an odd way to rejuvenate ballet as a ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Arts, Ballet

Fri Sep 19, 2008

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Picks of the Week: South: Classical and opera

Cav And Pag Coliseum, London, Saturday Richard Jones's new updating of the famous double bill opens ENO's season.

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Related Topix: Classical, Bartok, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia

Wed Sep 17, 2008

Scoop

Choral Masterpieces - " Haydn and Stravinsky

The concert, Choral Masterpieces – Haydn and Stravinsky will be performed on Thursday 9 October at Auckland Town Hall, THE EDGE® bringing together soloists from New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, ...

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Related Topix: Classical, The Philharmonia Orchestra, Haydn

Sat Sep 13, 2008

Internet Archive

Petrushka

Petrushka* Artist: Sakari Oramo conducts City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, violin soloist Leila Stefanowicz Album/Venue CHSSR @ Congress Palace, Lugano, Switzerland - 2006 Lugano Festival Date: Tuesday, ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Symphony, Arts, Congress, AZ

Tue Sep 09, 2008

Telegraph.co.uk

Film directors with an opera record: Ingmar Bergman, Anthony Minghella and more

Staged The Threepenny Opera and The Merry Widow early in his career. Stravinsky thought his production of The Rake's Progress "ideal". Andrei Tarkovsky His magnificently gloomy 1983 production of Boris Godunov ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Arts, Opera

Sun Sep 07, 2008

KBPS-FM Portland

Club Mod with Robert McBride

Club Mod Host: Robert McBride What's Coming up next It's another birthday party this week at the club, Joan Tower's 70th, which is this Saturday.

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Related Topix: Classical, Britten, Arts, Opera

Fri Aug 29, 2008

The Otago Daily Times

Classical reviews

This week classical music reviewer Geoff Adams listens to John Antill's Aboriginal ballet, Alexander Ivashkin playing Prokofiev and sonic nostalgia for New Hampshire .

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Related Topix: Classical, Naxos, Prokofiev, Symphony, Arts

Sun Aug 24, 2008

HispanicTrending

Tito Puente's Self-Titled Masterwork Examined

Percussionist Tito Puente turned out 118 records, more than 2,000 musical arrangements and 10,000-plus live performances.

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Related Topix: Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein, Classical, Tito Puente, Latin

Tue Aug 19, 2008

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Edinburgh festival classical review: Le Roi David

The curiosity of the music programming at this year's festival, Honegger's Le Roi David started life as the integral music for a theatrical spectacular, the composer later condensing the various spoken parts ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Honegger

Sun Aug 10, 2008

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Classical music review: BBC Concert Orchestra/Simcock/Hazlewood,

The intermingling of classical and jazz methods is thriving, to judge by the full house for the most ambitious jazz-oriented Prom of the 2008 series.

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Related Topix: Classical, Gershwin, Jazz, Woody Herman, Leonard Bernstein, BBC Concert Orchestra

Fri Aug 08, 2008

Journal News

Dweezil plays Frank, Zappa plays Zappa

When a musician writes a song called 'St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast,' it's hard to believe he would cite a composer like Igor Stravinsky as an influence.

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Related Topix: Classical, Igor Stravinsky, Peekskill, NY, Pop/Rock, Frank Zappa

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