Vol. 42, No. 10 / June 2024

Music

  • November 2005

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On the latest New York musical events.

  • October 2005

    Salzburg chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On the offerings at the 2005 Salzburg Festival.

  • September 2005

    Iraq, Kosovo & other music

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On Thomas Ades’s piano quintet, Peter Maxwell Davies’s Naxos Quartet No. 3, two string quartets of Christos Hatzis, and David Del Tredici’s Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter.

  • June 2005

    Martha contra mundum

    by

    Laura Jacobs

    On the incredible achievements of the dancer Martha Graham.

  • June 2005

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On the Dresden Staatskapelle’s two nights at Carnegie Hall, New York; Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers at City Opera, New York; Jefferson Friedman’s new piece The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly, performed by the New York Philharmonic and conducted by Leonard Slatkin; two concerts by the Bamberg Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall, New York; & Renee Fleming at Zankel Hall, New York.

  • June 2005

    Concert notes

    by

    Patrick J. Smith

    On Gounod’s Faust at the Metropolitan Opera, New York & Angela Hewitt at Zankell Hall, New York.

  • May 2005

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci at the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the New York Philharmonic’s program of Bach and Messiaen, guest-conducted by Kent Nagano; Handel’s Orlando and Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West at City Opera; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s “Postcard from Prague” program at Carnegie Hall; two Schubert concerts at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Valery Gergiev at Carnegie Hall.

  • April 2005

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic; the Emerson, Orion and Brentano String Quartets; the Metropolitan Opera’s Barber of Seville; & André Previn with the Oslo Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.

  • March 2005

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On Glenn Dicterow performing Aaron Jay Kernis’s Lament and Prayer in celebration of his twenty-fifth anniversary as concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic; Lauren Maazel conducting Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande also at the the New York Philharmonic; Vox Vocal Ensemble conducted by George Steel at Columbia University’s Low Library; performances by the Bolshoi Theatre at the World Economic Forum; & The Cleveland Orchestra directed by Franz Welser-Möst with soloist Radu Lupu.

  • February 2005

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On “Steven Isserlis and Friends” at Zankel Hall; Janáček’s Káta Kabanová at the Metropolitan Opera; some additional Christmas concerts by the Choir of King’s College & the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with the New York Baroque Soloists; Kurt Masur conducting the New York Philharmonic; & pianist Janice Weber at the Goethe-Institut.

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