Jan 17, 2023
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Latin, Tchaikovsky, Gavin Stamp, Master Drawings week & more from the world of culture.
Topic: “American Classical Music”
Music January 2022
New York chronicle
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On performances at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall & Opera America’s National Opera Center.
Jan 18, 2021
Music for a While #40: Entering into heaven
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Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion’s music critic, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
Apr 15, 2019
The pride and joy of La Jolla
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On the new Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla, California.
Music April 2019
New York chronicle
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On Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra, Matthias Pintscher and the New York Philharmonic, Igudesman & Joo, and Falstaff and The Daughter of the Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera.
Mar 06, 2019
MTT, the VPO, and a pianist named Igor
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On a concert in Carnegie Hall
Mar 01, 2019
A fitting Postludium
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George Loomis on William Schuman’s Ninth Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Feb 28, 2019
Clear as Glass
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On Simone Dinnerstein’s performance of Franz Schubert and Philip Glass at National Sawdust.
Dec 08, 2018
Palestrina, Praetorius & a premiere
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On a concert of Christmas choral works from the Renaissance—plus a wintry piece by Nico Muhly.
Music December 2018
New York chronicle
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On Nico Muhly’s Marnie and Puccini’s Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, and, at Carnegie Hall, the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, the violinist Maxim Vengerov in recital, and the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev.