viernes, 24 de junio de 2011

MUSIC REVIEW


MUSIC REVIEW

An Impish Creature That Won’t Be Fenced In

Ari Mintz for The New York Times
"The Cunning Little Vixen": Isabel Bayrakdarian in this New York Philharmonic production at Avery Fisher Hall.
The New York Philharmonic presents a colorful production of Janacek’s “Cunning Little Vixen” at Avery Fisher Hall.
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A Classicist Who Enjoys Wild Flights of Imagination

The great jazz pianist Barbara Carroll began an engagement at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Tuesday evening.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES

‘Fire and Rain’

The journalist David Browne recounts the stories behind four famous rock albums made in 1970.
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No Easy Road

The classical guitarist Milos Karadaglic performed at Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday.

Turkish Singer Resurfaces After Violent Brush With Death

Ibrahim Tatlises made his first public appearance Sunday since being shot in the head three months ago. Mr. Tatlises may be able to sing again, but he may have to do it in prison.
FRONT ROW
POPPING UP A drawing of a kiosk at the Music to Know festival.

Rock and Rags Are Co-Stars

The Music to Know festival in East Hampton, N.Y., in August may be the first planned as a platform for fashion marketing as well.
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Swelter, an ambient sound work, being performed by brass players positioned around Central Park Lake. The event was part of the citywide Make Music New York.

Best Way to the Concert? Get Yourself a Rowboat

As part of the citywide Make Music New York, nearly 30 brass players performed “Swelter” at Central Park Lake.
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A Singer in No Rush, Deploying Her Big Gestures Carefully

Sade Adu and her band, on their first American tour in a decade, try turning the Nassau Coliseum into a club.
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The hip-hop star Pitbull.

Rootless Rapper Finds His Rhythm

“Planet Pit,” the sixth album by the Cuban-American rapper Pitbull, completes his long transformation from crunk-era curio to dance-rap star.
Shakira, the Colombian pop star and a Unicef ambassador, danced with Israeli and Palestinian children during her visit to a Bilingual school in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Shakira Makes a Star Turn at an Israeli Conference

Israel’s octogenarian president, Shimon Peres, opened the Israeli Presidential Conference with Shakira by his side.
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Fred Sherry performing the solo piece

Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works

John Schaefer of WNYC radio hosted a League of Composers concert on Saturday night at the Miller Theater at Columbia University.
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Erik Friedlander, on cello, was joined by Doug Wamble on acoustic guitar in performing his new “Bonebridge” album at Joe's Pub.

Taking the Cello a Ways Down a Country Road

Erik Friedlander, showing off his pizzicato technique, covered all the songs of his new CD, “Bonebridge,” at Joe’s Pub.
Union negotiators and members on Tuesday at a meeting with City Opera management to talk about next year's plans.

Unions and Ailing City Opera Meet About Next Season

New York City Opera let some details about its next season dribble out on Tuesday during a meeting with its unions, which confronted the company’s leader, George Steel.
Katherine G. Farley, Lincoln Center chairwoman and an executive at Tishman Speyer.

Lincoln Center Chairwoman Plays Dual Role in China

Katherine Farley is helping Lincoln Center produce a performing arts center in China and create an adjacent commercial development.
Jill Scott performing at the release party for her new album, “The Light of the Sun,” in April at Dominion in Manhattan.

The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman

Jill Scott’s “Light of the Sun,” like the rest of her catalog, is proudly and forthrightly feminine. Plus new albums by Chris Dingman and Justin Moore.

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