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Revisiting Met's Macbeth On Demand 10112014 We had seen Macbeth twice in the 1980's but the only video Macbeth's On Demand now are with the updated Adrian Noble production-we had seen it with this cast then: New Production Macbeth Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, October 22, 2007 Macbeth (81) Giuseppe...

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Two Pianists Make a Life Out of an Intimate Art Form Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, partners onstage and off, began to play as a duo in school. Now, they are dedicating their careers to it. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/11/multimedia/11PIANISTS-mkgb/11PIANISTS-mkgb-superJumbo.jpg?qualit...

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Seiji Ozawa: 8 Essential Recordings Ozawa, who died this week at 88 years old, left behind a catalog made with orchestras in Boston, Chicago and elsewhere. Listen to highlights. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/09/multimedia/09ozawa-streaming-khwq/09ozawa-streaming-khwq-superJumbo.jpg?quality...

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Lincoln Center’s Leader, Henry Timms, to Depart After Five Years After guiding the arts organization through the pandemic and completing the renovation of David Geffen Hall, he is leaving to lead the Brunswick Group. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/08/multimedia/0707lincolncenter-01-tjgw/070...

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Review: Vikingur Olafsson’s ‘Goldbergs’ Mesmerize Carnegie Hall In his debut on the main Carnegie stage, Olafsson gave a spectacular reading of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/08/multimedia/08vikingur-ftgw/08vikingur-ftgw-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp The ...

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Seiji Ozawa, Captivating Conductor, Is Dead at 88 He led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 29 years, toured widely and helped dispel prejudices about East Asian classical musicians. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/06/08/obituaries/08ozawa1-sub/08ozawa1-sub-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp Se...

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Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear Our critics choose highlights, including concerts featuring Mitsuko Uchida as a Perspectives artist and Gabriela Ortiz as the hall’s composer in residence. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/07/arts/07CARNEGIE-diptych/07CARNEGIE-diptych-superJumb...

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A Critic Who Strives to Hit the Right Note Zachary Woolfe, the classical music critic for The New York Times, shared how he endeavors to make his writing accessible to both neophytes and experts. By Sarah Bahr Feb. 7, 2024, 3:00 a.m. ET Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers b...

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Robert Spano to Lead Washington National Opera as Music Director The veteran conductor, who won acclaim as a champion of new music at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, will begin a three-year term in 2025. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/06/multimedia/06washingtonopera-vktf/06washingtonopera-v...

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In ‘Last Days,’ Strange Sounds of Simultaneous Joy and Sadness Oliver Leith’s opera, based on the Gus Van Sant film that fictionalized the end of Kurt Cobain’s life, has its U.S. premiere in Los Angeles. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/06/multimedia/05LEITH-02-lpkc/05LEITH-02-lpkc-superJumbo...

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Goodbye Mostly Mozart, Hello Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center The renamed ensemble will present a mix of new and old in its first season under the conductor Jonathon Heyward. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/07/multimedia/05lincolncenter-ltqw/05lincolncenter-ltqw-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75...

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These Keyboard Musicians Are Thinking Beyond the Piano Modern pianos are central to classical music. But some musicians are learning other keyboard instruments, and feel like better artists for it. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/04/multimedia/04KEYBOARD-mbpf/04KEYBOARD-mbpf-superJumbo.jpg?q...

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We saw it live at the Met that night and decided to watch it last night from the Met On Demand site. We found it wonderful-great singing, a very nice traditional set and an opera with lovely music! BTW we also saw it HD style in 2018 and enjoyed that one too despite this-- "Elijah Moshinsky’s produc...

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:11 am

Also, check out the topic here, “RIP Mary Weiss”, the Shangri-Las.

Steve, will do. Regards, Len

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:41 am
February 3 ,1959, in an airplane crash after playing a concert in Arnolds Park,Iowa:

Steve during my teenage years I listened to loads of rock and roll and really enjoyed Buddy holly and also the CRICKETS! Regards, Len

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barney wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:33 pm
Me too, Len. When Opera Australia staged it a few years ago a friend and I went three times. It was magnificent.

Barney too bad Met On Demand doesn't have it at their site-I wouldn't mind seeing it again. Regards, Len

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Two Concerts Reveal a Dramatic Shift Between Mahler Symphonies Over consecutive evenings, the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra performed Mahler’s works on programs with star sopranos. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/02/multimedia/02sopranos-hqpt/02sopranos-hqpt-supe...

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Although I have heard neither this performance of "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" nor any of the recordings in the Nelsons Shostakovich symphony cycle with the Boston Symphony, this review is generally consistent with the reviews of the symphony cycle. The last thing I would want in "Lady Macbeth of Mtse...

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Review: The Boston Symphony Plays a Sober ‘Lady Macbeth’ The orchestra, under Andris Nelsons, gave a clear and controlled concert performance of Shostakovich’s crushing opera at Carnegie Hall https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/arts/music/boston-symphony-orchestra-carnegie-hall.html?unlocked_article_...

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Can a Piano Capture the Grandeur of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Music?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/arts ... ances.html?

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My next hit opera? Karl Marx, the comedy Jonathan Dove has written more operas than Verdi. He tells Richard Morrison why people will laugh at his latest, Marx in London!, which pokes fun at the communist thinker Quantity doesn’t necessarily go hand in hand with quality. But across the musical world ...

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Lance wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:04 am
Having heard DALIBOR, I have only three words: I LOVE IT! Typical Smetana, so many wonderful melodies, arias, orchestral music. For me, the music comes first. Thank you for the invitation to investigate it!

Lance I hope it continues to stay on/line-I sure want to see it again! Regards, Len

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Joseph wonder if Nikki is getting closer and closer on the E Jean Carrol case against trump! Regards, Len Meet the Press Nikki Haley: ‘I absolutely trust the jury’ in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against Trump https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/nikki-haley-i-absolutely-trust-the-jury-...

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barney wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 28, 2024 5:35 pm
Or, if there is a more unpleasant prison, that one!

Barney maybe Alcatraz-I'm thinking Al Capone! Regards, Len

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I googled but couldn't find much-anyone have any ideas? What made me want to know more is the Texas barbed wire situation. I found stuff like this: Regards, Len Nullification attempts in the 19th century The Peters case The Supreme Court first dealt with nullification in 1809 in the case of United S...

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As Changes Come to Boston Symphony, Conductor’s Contract Is Extended The music director, Andris Nelsons, was moved to an evergreen contract, with an expanded role at Tanglewood. And Carlos Simon was named to a new composer post. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/25/multimedia/25boston-symphony...

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barney wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:02 pm
Len, we're singing from the same hymn sheet,

Barney so you agree with me-trump should wind up in Sing Sing Correctional Facility! Regards, Len

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:16 am
May the rest of Donald’s days be even more nasty, more brutish and more demented than they already are.

Joseph couldn't agree more- what one man could do to this country! Regards, Len

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Met Opera Taps Its Endowment Again to Weather Downturn The company has withdrawn nearly $40 million in additional funds from its endowment to cover expenses, but sees signs it may be emerging from its post-pandemic woes. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/25/multimedia/25METOPERA-tzmp/25METOPER...

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This is a great victory for every woman who stands up when she’s been knocked down and a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down, [/b] https://cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/JNWOUJCZLVLJZIRCOLZDDIAGUY.jpg Joseph I was watching CNN right when the jury ca...

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I crave your indulgence while I tell one of my favourite Jewish jokes, which you have just reminded me of. A rabbi goes into a deli, points to some smoked ham, and says "give me a pound of that fish." "But rabbi," the assistant says, "that's ham." The rabbi replies: "I don't care for the name of th...

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Like Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue was (and remains) decent Broadway show material that got tagged and relentlessly promoted as classical. Inflation like that does nothing good for listeners, players, the music, or the composer's and composition's status in the overall scheme of musical things. ...

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Febnyc wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 26, 2024 11:25 am

Gosh! I could go on - but suffice to say: If R in Blue is a "punching bag" I'm quite happy to be "blessed and stuck" with it.

Frank, what can I say-I listen to the work and love it. It makes me think about Wagner-the antisemite-I listen to the operas and am captivated. Regards, Len

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I gather the level of partisanship at Fox is such that they scarcely qualify to be called a news organisation, Len. We get in Oz, on cable, but I don't watch it. Our local right-wing equivalent is Sky news.Can't bring myself to watch that - smug, lunatic ranters. Barney the influence it's had on th...

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barney wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:43 pm
Whether they are such that we are now going to hell in a handbasket is, of course, highly debatable - and is exactly what is being debated here.

Barney Fox News-the worst. Regards, Len

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:02 pm

As did I ( 1967-1971) for college.

Steve for me it was Brooklyn College-1960 to 1964. Regards, Len

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The Worst Masterpiece: ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ at 100 A jazz musician considers the legacy and unfulfilled promise of George Gershwin’s catchy — or you could say corny — repertory staple. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/28/arts/28rhapsody/28rhapsody-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp George Gers...

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My First George Enescu Oedipe c/o Medici This afternoon I was looking for an opera to see on Medici. There was an Enchantress by Tchaikovsky-an opera I've never seen. Then there was a Weber Der Freischütz-haven't seen it in years. Watching the first 10 minutes of each I knew these 2 updated wild pro...

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Joseph he follows Tim Scott-so who's next-Mitch McConnell! Regards, Len

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In Maria Callas’s Career, La Scala Played a Major Role The soprano appeared in more than two dozen productions at the house in Milan as she rose to become opera’s leading lady. Here are six highlights. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/23/multimedia/23sp-scala-openings-inyt1/23sp-scala-opening...

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Protecting Opera, ‘a People’s Art Form’ An American soprano who sang when the United States rejoined UNESCO weighed in on the agency’s addition of Italian opera singing to a heritage list. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/23/multimedia/23sp-scala-unesco-inyt-vqfz/23sp-scala-unesco-inyt-vqfz-s...

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A New Production of a Verdi Opera Tightens Family Ties “Simon Boccanegra,” a story of fathers, politics, love and duty, is returning to La Scala, where personal connections to the opera run deep. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/23/multimedia/23sp-scala-simon-inyt-03-jtfk/23sp-scala-simon-iny...

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We never saw her at the Met but I know I have her in a DVD of an opera but I can't remember which opera it is-here's another article:

https://operawire.com/obituary-contralt ... ies-at-72/

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Really? Regards, Len

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKf-Z5Jlni4

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Len: I'm surprised that you've never seen the P. D. Q. Bach opera Professor Schickele unearthed - I think he found it in the East River - called "The Abduction of Figaro." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-W1AESUno&list=PLvahm8NzJcpcp8zQ9ttcelLM7GtFGY_vz&index=10 Frank thanks, I never heard of it ...

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Febnyc wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:22 pm
He stopped, turned and flashed that impish grin - and returned my greeting. We spoke for about 10 minutes and he could not have been more engaging and generous.

Frank what a great experience you had! Regards, Len

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At 70, the Composer Georg Friedrich Haas Encourages Self-Discovery One of Haas’s former students reflects on his time with a teacher who had lessons to offer in music, doubt and influence. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/21/arts/21haas-illo/21haas-illo-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp Mik...

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We only saw him once live-think it was Carnegie Hall Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at 88 He wrote more than 100 symphonic, choral, solo instrumental and chamber works. But he was better known, and celebrated, as a musical parodist. Who can forget the “Concerto for H...

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If Trump fit that bill, he’d have something going for him. Truth to tell, he is a wuss. The world’s autocrats are rooting for this blowhard to win and in some cases are taking active measures to ensure it.. Joseph so true-today Biden will try again to get aid for Ukraine-I'm pessimistic. Regards, L...

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:12 pm
They’d have to rent one of these to hoist that disgusting blubber slob:

Talk about blubber there are some who say DeSantis is only staying around just in case things turn even worse for trump-either conviction or cholesterol! Regards, Len

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