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ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News - Music
Scandal, Embezzlement, Attempted Suicide Mar Salzburg Festival
 "The week-long Easter festival has been shaken to the core after an apparent suicide attempt by its technical chief and the disappearance of the director amid allegations of a massive fraud totalling over €2m (£1.7m)."... Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:51:45 -0800
Aspen Music Festival Cuts Season
 "This summer's season will run eight weeks instead of nine -- July 1 through Aug. 22 -- and that trim inevitably means a reduction in the overall number of concerts, master classes and other offerings."... Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:06:04 -0800
Is There Any Such Thing As The Definitive Performance?
 "Most experienced listeners know that thinking in terms of definitive performances is as meaningless for new music as it is for any other kind."... Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:59:11 -0800
Metropolitan Opera Brings Back Its Former General Manager
 "New York's Metropolitan Opera is bringing back Joseph Volpe, who left three years ago after 16 years as the company's general manager, to lead contract talks with some of its major unions."... Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:03:51 -0800
What's The Point Of Music?
 "Unwilling to believe that music was altogether useless, Darwin concluded that it may have made man's ancestors more successful at mating. Yet if that were so, you might expect one gender to be musically more gifted than the other, and there is no evidence of that. So what is the point of music?"... Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:08:08 -0800
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Seattle Chamber Players | On the Boards
 Those of you who are familiar with the contemporary arts scene in Seattle know that there are two organizations which have been dedicated to presenting new and interesting works from around the world for over 20-years: On the Boards and the Seattle Chamber Players.?? And those of you who are familiar [...] Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:42:37 +0000
Faking It on 54th
 Met lots of really nice people at my little social media presentation for the Chamber Music America folks at St. Peter’s yesterday.???? As promised, here’s the slide deck I used.?? If there is anything you’d like more information about, send me an email and I’ll try to answer.?? My thanks to the extraordinarily well-organized CMA [...] Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:13:47 +0000
Pick a tone, any tone
 The American Music Center’s NewMusicBox-meister Frank J. Oteri dropped by, with word of an upcoming gig of his own this Saturday: “Just wanted to alert you folks that Tonally Perplexed, my trio devoted to improvisation with just noticeable differences (featuring moi on the custom built 6-octave ‘tonal plexus’ tuned to 205-tone equal temperament) will be performing [...] Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:18:33 +0000
Seeing what was coming right from the start
 Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame) happened to be one of the earliest voices captured, in 1888, by Thomas Edison’s then-new wax-cylinder recording machine. Invited to dinner at Edison’s London outpost, Little Menlo, Sullivan recorded this small but prescient speech (which you can hear thanks to the Thomas Edison National Historical [...] Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:25:48 +0000
BSO’s Rowe gives American Premiere of Carter Flute Concerto Feb 4-9
 Ah, ’tis a small world…years ago during my film music studies at USC I remember chatting several times with a flutist who had made the finals for a position with the LA Phil – while she was still an undergrad. Fast forward 15 years and it turns out Elizabeth Rowe is not only playing principal [...] Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:20:29 +0000
NYT > Music
Charting an Earnest Course Between the Rah-Rah and the Reflective
 Hectoring and uplift enjoy an uneasy truce in the music of Delta Spirit. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
How Flexible Are You? This Bach’s a Good Test
 In its second outing, part of the Music Before 1800 series at Corpus Christi Church on Sunday, Juilliard Baroque showed an entirely different face. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
2 Singers, One Experienced and One Not
 On Sunday the promising young tenor Sean Panikkar joined the coloratura soprano June Anderson for an eclectic program ranging from Beethoven to Weill. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Imaginary Soundtracks for Two Silent Warhol Films
 The Unsound Festival, an electronic-music smorgasbord that began last week and continues through Sunday, gave two Warhol shorts imaginary soundtracks. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Lou Reed’s ‘Machine’: Now More Strings, Less Metal
 A real-time, chamber-music performance of an inhumanly generated composition: that was Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music” as played by the Fireworks Ensemble at Miller Theater. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
The New Yorker:  Arts & Culture
Your Eustace, 2010: Eustace Tilley Contest.
 A portfolio of the winning entries to the 2010 Eustace Tilley Contest, an invitation to redefine The New Yorker’s presiding dandy. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT
Sasha Frere-Jones: Massive Attack slinks back into view.
 The members of the British trio Massive Attack first came together in the Wild Bunch, a d.j. collective that sprang up in Bristol in the mid-eighties. The crew included the future Björk producer Nellee Hooper, the vocalist Tricky, and the d.j.s Milo and Willie Wee. The social . . . Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT
Richard Brody: Jia Zhangke’s “24 City” and the Dardennes’s “Lorna’s Silence.”
 paragraph class="noindent">There’s a crisis of naturalism in the contemporary cinema, resulting from the presumptively objective, quasi-documentary style with which politically engaged filmmakers have been getting their messages out. The Chinese director Jia Zhangke—as seen in his latest film, “24 City” (Cinema . . . Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT
Peter Schjeldahl: Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim.
 You will enjoy your visit to the Tino Sehgal whatchamacallit at the Guggenheim—“show” doesn’t fill the bill—or else expose yourself as a hopeless grouch. The thirty-four-year-old London-born artist’s “relational” works can seem chichi in . . . Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT
Joan Acocella: Rocío Molina at the Flamenco Festival.
 When you see a great dancer for the first time, it can be a confusing experience. She may be off her feed that night. And you don’t necessarily trust what you saw. But now and then you have the boing! experience. Your eye moves across the stage, and . . . Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT
All About Jazz News
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Postal Service Offers "Love Letters from Ella"
 Serenade that special someone in your life this Valentine's Day with classic love songs featuring acclaimed music artist Ella Fitzgerald. On sale for a limited time at select Post Offices nationwide, Love Letters from Ella is a collection of the jazz singer's most cherished love songs, recorded with some of her favorite collaborators - including Count Basie and his orchestra, Joe Pass and Andre Previn. This special edition, first released in 2007, also boasts a full reproduction of Fitzgerald's commemorative postage stamp...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: 5th Annual "Jazz in the Gardens"
 Jazz legends David Sanborn, Cassandra Wilson and Joe Sample are set to take the stage during the 5th Annual "Jazz in the Gardens" hosted by #1 rated, nationally syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner, Saturday, March 20th and Sunday, March 21st at Sun Life Stadium (formerly Dolphin Stadium), 2269 Dan Marino Blvd, Miami Gardens, Florida 33056. Internationally-known and well-respected, these jazz musicians are at the top of the genre, oftentimes pulling in audiences of over 6, 000 on their own bill...
RADIO/PODCAST: New Podcast for Ken Navarro's Upcoming CD "Dreaming of Trains" Now Available
 A new podcast for Ken Navarro's upcoming CD Dreaming of Trains has just been published. Navarro takes the listener on a journey behind the scenes and discuss the composing, recording and mixing of his upcoming CD. The official CD retail release date for Dreaming of Trains is March 16, 2010. However, the CD and download are now available exclusively at kennavarro.com...
TV/FILM: How David Letterman, Jay Leno and Oprah Winfrey Pulled off Their Secret Super Bowl Promo
 To pull off the surprise Super Bowl spot he did with rival David Letterman, Jay Leno flew secretly to New York on the NBC jet last Tuesday and managed to sneak into the Ed Sullivan Theater undetected wearing a hoodie, sunglasses and a fake mustache. Rob Burnett, executive producer of the Late Show, said keeping Lenos participation under wraps was the key to preserving the effect of the 15-second promo, which featured the two late-night comedians uncomfortably watching the Super Bowl together, with Oprah Winfrey trying to keep the peace...
MUSIC INDUSTRY: Jackson Doctor Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter
 Michael Jackson's doctor faces four years in prison if convicted on involuntary manslaughter charge; pop star's family arrives in court Prosecutors on Monday charged Michael Jacksons personal physician with involuntary manslaughter in connection with administering a combination of surgical anesthetic and sedatives blamed in the music legends death last summer...
PlaybillArts.com
Kate Aldrich to Sing Final Two Met <em>Carmen</em> Dates, Replacing Gheorghiu
 Angela Gheorghiu has withdrawn from her two scheduled performances in Carmen at the Met April 28 and May 1. Kate Aldrich will step into the role. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:00:00 EST
Russian Opera and Dance Converge on Kennedy Center Feb. 9-March 7
 The Kennedy Center's Focus on Russia continues Feb. 9 with visits from Mariinsky Ballet and Opera, Bolshoi Ballet, and others. Among the highlights will be Sergeyev's Sleeping Beauty, Prokofiev's War and Peace and Anna Netrebko singing from Iolanta. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST
NY Festival of Song's <I>Voluptuous Muse</i> to Sing Feb. 16 and 18
 Joseph Kaiser, Dina Kuznetsova and Kate Lindsey will sing The Voluptuous Muse, NY Festival of Song's celebration of the lush tonality and decadent Romanticism of late 19th- and early 20th- century song Feb. 16-18. Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:00:00 EST
Osvaldo Golijov Channels Chopin and Schumann
 Carnegie Hall will host a number of events celebrating the bicentennial of Chopin and Schumann's births. Osvaldo Golijov premieres a new tribute work, with Dawn Upshaw, March 17. Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma perform together Jan. 29, and Ax presents a solo concert Feb. 10. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:00:00 EST
Kirstin Ch?vez is New Jersey <I>Carmen</i> Feb. 5-12
 Carmen at various New Jersey venues. The renowned Carmen - who has sung the role with NY City Opera, Opera Australia, Tokyo City Opera and Oper Graz - replaced the originally-announced Denyce Graves. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST
NYT > Jazz
Sounds Forged to Sharp Edges
 The tenor saxophonist David S?nchez’s current band, which performed at the Jazz Standard on Thursday night, has settled into its music, swapped out a drummer and become quite great. Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Jazz Listings
 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
A Quadruple Return for a Man Doubly Missed
 The alto-saxophonist Wess Anderson is back in New York, working with a quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola through Sunday night. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
From Jazz-Rock Fusion to Progressive Metal, With a Virtuosic Accompaniment
 Reviews of Allan Holdsworth at Iridium, and Cynic at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Taking a Ride on Jazz’s Main Line
 The trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has outgrown the unnatural glow of a prodigy. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
NewMusicBox
Sounds Heard: Phyllis Chen&mdash;UnCaged Toy Piano
 By Frank J. Oteri
Phyllis Chen's debut CD, Uncaged Toy Piano, mixes old and new solo pieces and works featuring toy piano in combination with a CD player, a toy boombox (cute), a music box, a frying pan, and bowls; not quite the kitchen sink, but close enough. Monday, February 08, 2010
Kitten on the Keys
 By Dan Visconti
A cat on your lap, or better on your keyboard, is one of the best things that a composer could ask for! Thursday, February 04, 2010
Charting the Future: Is It the End of the Top Ten?
 By Colin Holter
Are classical music listeners ready to cut loose from the tyranny of the compact disc? Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Sounds Heard: Tyshawn Sorey&mdash;<I>Koan</I>
 By Trevor Hunter
As a drummer, Tyshawn Sorey is beguiling to an extreme: in his work with Iyer, Lehman, and others, his tight, complex, shuffling beats are accomplished not only at hypersonic speeds, but with an incredible musicality as well. Compositionally, however, Sorey's own music seems to exist on a whole other planet from what he plays as a sideman. Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Stamp of Approval
 By Frank J. Oteri
Last week a postal clerk asked me if I was interested in purchasing an Ella Fitzgerald CD which was issued by the USPS as part of a promotion around their Great Singers series of stamps. Tuesday, February 02, 2010
 
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