The applause that followed felt almost like an extra musical movement, that's how much I enjoyed hearing it. Why? It signals the continuing robustness of the audience for this great music.
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Concert Review (NYC): American Classical Orchestra and ACO Chorus – ‘RENEW,’ Music by Johann Sebastian Bach (5 April 2022)
Who better than the American Classical Orchestra and Chorus to bring us J.S. Bach on period instruments?
Read More »Opera Review (NYC): Teatro Nuovo’s ‘The Barber of Seville’ Outdoors at Lincoln Center
Opera returned to NYC with a superb semi-staged production outdoors at Lincoln Center starring an array of excellent, big-voiced up-and-comers.
Read More »Concert Review: Juilliard String Quartet Play Beethoven, Kurtág (NYC, 12 Dec 2019)
The Juilliard String Quartet captured Beethoven at his brightest and darkest, with string quartets early and late.
Read More »Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra – ‘Eroica’ (NYC, 17 May 2019)
Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony was a jubilant finish to the American Classical Orchestra's season under Thomas Crawford, showing their mastery of, and ardent feeling for, the classical repertoire.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘The Hard Problem’ by Tom Stoppard
Seeing Stoppard's play about scientific arguments over the brain and consciousness, we marvel at how he threads scenes and characterizations into a lovely fabric of hope.
Read More »Concert Review: Juilliard String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall (NYC, 19 Nov 2018)
The Juilliard String Quartet presented music by Beethoven and Dvořák and the NYC premiere of a new work by Lembit Beecher.
Read More »Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra with Contralto Avery Amereau (NYC, 24 March 2018)
The venerable original-instruments orchestra presented familiar and seldom-heard works, including Brahms's 'Alto Rhapsody' and music by Schubert and Ferdinand Ries.
Read More »Concert Review: Gerard Schwarz Conducts the Juilliard Orchestra with Violist Jordan Bak (NYC, Oct 26 2017)
Jordan Bak, a marvelous young violist, helped remind us that 20th-century American composers kept audiences in mind even as they created original, boundary-breaking concert music.
Read More »Playwright Paula Vogel (‘Indecent’ on Broadway) in Conversation with Linda Winer
There has been such enthusiasm for the production since Yale (2015) that the ensemble, the musicians, the stage manager, and the assistants have remained together. As Vogel says, “We’ve all moved together as one.”
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