2025年1月3日 · The program of the New York Philharmonic’s concert Thursday night was largely about journeys, but it started with an arrival. In an impressive Philharmonic debut, the German conductor Kevin John Edusei presented a brilliant calling card in Samy Moussa’s Elysium, then took listeners on poetic and philosophical trips with music of Berlioz and Richard Strauss.

Conrad Tao is one of the most compelling musicians on the classical scene. A talented pianist and composer, he also has the creative restlessness that is vital to classical music, a combination of curiosity for what lies at the edges of the tradition, and a desire to not just improve his technique but learn new ways to play and make music.

2024年10月18日 · Modernism in the arts is hard to define, but in the words of a long-ago Supreme Court justice, we know it when we see it (or hear it). “Afromodernism,” the title of the concert by the New York Philharmonic Thursday night, and related events around town, is no easier to pin down.

2024年5月9日 · Legendary pianists could be pretty good composers, too. Perhaps you’ve heard of Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff… But what about violinists?

2024年4月26日 · Serendipitously, future New York Philharmonic music director Gustavo Dudamel took the podium Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Juanjo Mena was the scheduled guest conductor for this week’s program, but fell ill, and Dudamel was fortuitously available—in town to lead a special concert of high school musicians—and already familiar with half the music.

2025年1月1日 · As the fedora-hatted archaeologist was lowered into the Egyptian temple to begin the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Verdi’s Aida Tuesday night, he took a tumble while disengaging from his rope.. That was only the first misstep in a new production that already had the misfortune to follow a legend, and then came up with few reasons to do so.

2024年11月13日 · Tosca is a mainstay of the Metropolitan Opera’s fall season with three cast changes and just as many conductors in David McVicar’s mostly conventional, if off-kilter production. The second cast—Lise Davidsen as Tosca, Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi, and Quinn Kelsey as Scarpia—made its first appearance Tuesday evening with mixed results.

2024年11月3日 · The performance Saturday afternoon at Town Hall by the Dessoff Choirs and Orchestra was more than just a concert. Certainly, the Dessoff, with soprano Joélle Harvey and baritone Will Liverman delivered Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with artistry and sympathy, but there was more than that happening on stage. Start with the conductors, plural.

2024年5月25日 · Most of the best-known and loved classical musicians have that status for a reason; they are among the finest at their instruments, delivering the kind of bravura technique that thrills the ears and even the eyes of many listeners.

2021年11月1日 · If it’s possible for even the slightest bit of good to have come out of the pandemic shutdown of 2020, then the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Porgy and Bess, which opened at Sunday’s matinée, is a positive result of the pandemic.. This production, directed by James Robinson, debuted in the fall of 2019.