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For Harold Shapero
The distinguished Boston-area composer, a deft practitioner of mid-century neoclassical style, has died at the age of ninety-three. He was the last living representative of the Copland generation, that remarkable phalanx of American composers who came to the fore in... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Wagner everywhere but New York
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A program from 1913, courtesy of Joan Matabosch. Wagner's two-hundredth birthday arrives on Wednesday, and most of the world's major music cities will mark the occasion in some way. In Leipzig, Wagner's birthplace, there will be a celebratory concert, a... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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The Morningside Mysterium
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What do the brothers Wesendonck, Guardian Life Insurance, Confucius Plaza, the Roerich Museum, Grant's Tomb, West Point, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Temple of the Grail have in common? Needless to say, they are all part of "A Walking... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Nelsons to Boston
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Major news from the Boston Symphony: the impassioned young Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons has been chosen as the orchestra's fifteenth music director, succeeding James Levine. "I am deeply honored and touched that the Boston Symphony Orchestra has appointed me its... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Tanglewood 2012
"Fresh Breezes" by Alex Ross The New Yorker, Aug. 27, 2012 It is said that Serge Koussevitzky, the Russian-Jewish émigré who led the Boston Symphony from 1924 to 1949, had trouble reading complex new scores. He wallowed in sentiment, Stravinsky... Continue reading
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A Walking Tour of Wagner's New York
The first in a short series of posts commemorating Wagner’s two-hundredth birthday, which falls on May 22nd. Above is the title page of Wagner’s “Grosser Festmarsch,” also known as the “American Centennial March,” written for the celebrations of 1876. In... Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Let there be Steve
I'm delighted to see among ASCAP's Concert Music Awards honorees the furiously hard-working and keen-eared Steve Smith, New York's leading new-music authority and one of the most gifted critics in the country. Many other worthy names appear on the announcement,... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Wide-eyed kid
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Posted May 9, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Miscellany: Wagner in Oman, etc.
"Richard Wagner is one of the more controversial opera composers," writes the Times of Oman, previewing the Royal Opera House Muscat's presentation of The Flying Dutchman, via the Latvian National Opera. It's refreshing to see a writer avoid the usual... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Ninth anniversary issue
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"I have four razors and a dictaphone." — Andrey Tarkovsky, 1979 Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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American Spring
Spring for Music begins tonight with a performance by the Baltimore Symphony: Marin Alsop conducting John Adams, Jennifer Higdon, and Prokofiev. The following night, the Albany Symphony revives Morton Gould's Third Symphony, and after that comes the Buffalo Philharmonic, with... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Amplification
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The Minnesota Orchestra, whose musicians have been locked out since the beginning of the season, is veering toward catastrophe. A number of players have departed for other ensembles; the orchestra's use of state funds has raised serious questions and is... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Beethoven listens
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In Mixed Opinions and Maxims, Nietzsche pictures how Beethoven might have reacted to contemporary performances of his music. He is, of course, talking about Beethoven circa 1878, the Beethoven of Wagner and Hans von Bülow, but his remarks seem no... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Thoughts possibly aimed at Wagner
"The author should shut his mouth when his work opens its mouth." — Nietzsche, Mixed Opinions and Maxims Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Pocket Threni
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I went last night to the opening of Trinity Wall Street's festival of the sacred Stravinsky — an imposing program that included Threni, Abraham and Isaac (with the great Sanford Sylvan), and The Flood. In the crowd were more than... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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M. Proust's self-editing seminar
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"Marcel Proust and Swann's Way," the Morgan Library's exhibition of Proustian notebooks, drafts, typescripts, and proofs, is in its last week, and I urge anyone with an interest in the author to see it. Mary Hawthorne wrote a lovely piece... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Miscellany: The end of New York City, etc.
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Ellen Rosand's Yale Baroque Opera Project, which has brought one revelation after another, arrives on more familiar ground with a production of Cavalli's La Calisto. Performances are on May 4 and 5; if you go on the 4th, you can... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Burr Van Nostrand
New World Records has an important new release devoted to the music of Burr Van Nostrand, a California-born avant-gardist who was heavily immersed in the anti-war movement of the nineteen sixties and seventies. Above is a live performance, at the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Gender parity and new music
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Even the Score. The New Yorker, April 29, 2013. "The 'Woman Composer' Is Dead," the Amy Beth Kirsten essay that inspired this column, may be found here. See also "Pull Up a Chair," by Alexandra Gardner; "The Power List," by... Continue reading
Posted Apr 21, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Electric Circus, Electric Ear
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Tonight's episode of Mad Men featured a scene at the Electric Circus, one of the leading New York clubs of the late sixties. I gathered some material about the Circus for a talk a couple of years ago, and offer... Continue reading
Posted Apr 21, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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For Dean Drummond
The composer, musician, and preservationist, keeper of the magnificent Harry Partch instrumentarium, died last Saturday, at the age of sixty-four. In 2005, I had the great experience of hearing Drummond's group Newband play Partch's Oedipus Rex at Montclair State, the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 18, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Tuonela
Colin Davis conducts the Boston Symphony. Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Miscellany: Eleanor Roosevelt plays Elvis, etc.
Andrew Patner and Anastasia Tsioulcas celebrate Adolph "Bud" Herseth, the awe-inspiring, epoch-making Chicago Symphony trumpeter, who died last weekend at the age of ninety-one.... Congratulations to Caroline Shaw, who has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her work... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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For Colin Davis
It continues here. The ever-questing, deep-thinking, profoundly musical English conductor died today at the age of eighty-five. Of many brilliant concerts, three are burned most strongly in my mind: his 2011 Missa Solemnis at Carnegie Hall, which seemed already to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 14, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Tenebrae, Lamentations
Singing Shadows. The New Yorker, April 15, 2013. Videos of TENET's Lamentations series are archived on Trinity Wall Street's website; here is the Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri. TENET's website gives details of upcoming performances, including a Bach Mass in B... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2013 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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