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Aspen Music Festival concert stars 3 former students
Call it a musical hat trick: A concert at the Aspen Music Festival's Benedict Music Tent Friday Aug. 9 features three former students of the summer music school that's part of the Aspen program -...
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Free music and drinks at Columbia Miller Theatre "Pop-Up Concerts"
Sometimes it takes the lure of more than just fine performers and interesting music to lure people to contemporary classical concerts. So Columbia University's Miller Theatre offers free admission and...
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21st century meets 16th century in 12th century NYC Cloisters
Too often the Cloisters, located in northern Manhattan, is an afterthought for visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is several miles to the south. This fall, smart culture lovers would do...
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Oxford updates Groves American music encyclopedia
After years of work, with contributions by approximately 2000 authors, Oxford University Press on Monday releases the second edition of Groves Dictionary of American Music. Edited by Charles Hiroshi...
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Guggenheim Museum hosts hip Mizrahi Peter & the Wolf
Have you and the kids seen the ballet The Nutcracker enough times? For a different experience in New York, you might want to see if there are tickets for the Guggenheim Museum’s performances this week...
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Meetups - great way to hear music with others
New York has "Meetups" for everything from yoga classes to technology worker gatherings. For those who enjoy classical music but cannot always find friends who want to go to a specific concert,...
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Music, dance Thursday at Met Museum's grand Charles Engelhard Court
The Metropolitan Museum's wonderful Charles Engelhard Court in the American Wing will be the setting for an unusual collaboration in music and dance Thursday night.Alarm Will Sound, the fine...
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Aspen 2014 summer to spotlight Tony Bennett, Rufus Wainwright, Midori
The 2014 Aspen Music Festival, in Aspen, Colorado, under the banner of the "New Romantics" will feature appearances this summer by several well-known pop music stars, including the legendary Tony...
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String Quartet Ethel to play Morricone movie music
Ethel, the edgy contemporary classical string quartet often heard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will present a diverse series of works free at Trinity Church Thursday afternoon March 13 at 1 p.m....
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New translation of Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale to star Michael Cerveris
There may be no better commemoration of the centenary of the outbreak of World War I than a fully staged presentation of Stravinsky's musical drama The Soldier's Tale. The chamber work, which is...
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Aspen Music Festival to visit New York City
In a reverse of the out-of-town tryout process, the Aspen Music Festival, which runs for eight weeks each summer in the Colorado mountain town, will bring a one-night version of its offerings to New...
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Seattle Symphony to play Pulitzer winner at Carnegie
The Seattle Symphony and Music Director Ludovic Morlot have great karma - plus good taste and timing. Months ago, the orchestra scheduled "Become Ocean" by John Luther Adams as its opening piece for...
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Final Bach, Revisited concert features Steve Reich
Columbia University's Miller Theater concludes its series of "Bach, Revisited" concerts Thursday, with music by Bach paired with that of Steve Reich, a titan of contemporary classical music. In two...
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Lincoln Center opens outdoor dance floor next week
Anyone who loves to dance is welcome at New York’s Lincoln Center outdoor dancing festival for several weeks starting next week. Staged at a specially designed open-air ballroom in Damrosch Park on...
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Summer classical music atop Aspen Mountain
The venues for the summer Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado this summer are as large as the Benedict Music Tent (2,050 seats) and as intimate as a private home. But none is more lovely than...
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Lowell Liebermann's opera 'Dorian Gray' has Aspen premiere
Lowell Liebermann's opera "The Picture of Dorian Gray," which had its Colorado premiere last night at the Aspen Music Festival, is based on the dramatic, irresistible Oscar Wilde novel about a young...
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Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music present free fall concerts
With ticket prices soaring at so many prestigious classical music venues in New York City, it’s a relief to find free or inexpensive events featuring the talented soon-to-be-famous musicians at two of...
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Dover Quartet to premiere jazzy Dankner work
The Dover Quartet, which was catapulted to fame when it won Grand Prize plus all three special prizes at the 2013 Banff International quartet competition, brings Stephen Dankner’s unique String...
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Composer John Adams leads Yale orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall
The day before his controversial opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” has its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, composer John Adams conducts the Yale Philharmonia and Brentano String Quartet in his...
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Death of Klinghoffer premieres at Metropolitan Opera
While protesters massed across the street a good distance from the entrance doors, the John Adams opera "The Death of Klinghoffer," which was first presented in 1991, had its Metropolitan Opera...
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