Sep 22, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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On the Ravenna mosaics, piano music from Simone Dinnerstein, walking New York’s East Sixties & more from the world of culture.
On the Ravenna mosaics, piano music from Simone Dinnerstein, walking New York’s East Sixties & more from the world of culture.
On new music by James MacMillan, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Bryce Dessner; newish music by Philip Glass and Wynton Marsalis; unfamiliar music by Bizet; the conductors Riccardo Muti and Santtu-Matias Rouvali; the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; and the pianist Conrad Tao.
On Philip Glass and Kelli O'Hara at the New York Philharmonic; Paul Jacobs and the French organ tradition; Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera; the composer Jessie Montgomery; the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; and some recently departed musical standouts.
On last night at the New York Philharmonic.
On Simone Dinnerstein’s performance of Franz Schubert and Philip Glass at National Sawdust.
On a new Philip Glass concerto at the New York Philharmonic, The Tales of Hoffmann and Norma at the Metropolitan Opera, and opening night at Carnegie Hall.
On the opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson.