CONDUCTOR CHARLES MACKERRAS DIES Australian conductor known as an authority on Czech music and Mozart dies in London, aged 84 By Matthew Weaver The Australian conductor Sir Charles Mackerras...
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MAUREEN FORRESTER, OPERA ICON, DIES AT 79 Revered contralto was the ultimate diva who toured the world and sang as many as 120 concerts a year By Ken Winters Celebrated Canadian opera star M...
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BENJAMIN LEES, VERSATILE COMPOSER, DIES AT 86 By Margalit Fox Benjamin Lees, an iconoclastic American composer who spurned modern musical trends in favor of work that was lyrical, tonal and wid...
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ALICIA DE LARROCHA, SHY VIRTUOSO By Stuart Isacoff When Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha passed away on Sept. 25 at the age of 86, it signaled the closing of an era. Ms. de Larrocha can be c...
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LEON KIRCHNER, COMPOSER AND TEACHER, DIES AT 90 By Anthony Tommasini September 17, 2009 Leon Kirchner, the eminent American composer who was also a pianist, a conductor and an influential te...
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ERICH KUNZEL DIES AT 74 By Janelle Gelfand An era has ended. Erich Kunzel, 74, Cincinnati's music man for more than 44 years, has died. Orchestra members learned today that Kunzel died this m...
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FAREWELL TO MUSICAL PRODIGY GEOFFREY TOZER OBITUARY: GEOFFREY TOZER. PIANIST. BORN MUSSOORIE, INDIA, NOVEMBER 5, 1954. DIED MELBOURNE, AUGUST 20, AGE 54. By Anna Goldsworthy Pianist Geoffrey T...
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IMAGINARY CONCERTS By Alex Ross The most potent sensual jolt in the first book of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is felt when Charles Swann falls under the spell of "a little phrase" in...
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WORKS INCLUDE THE COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS OF BEETHOVEN AND BARTÓK; QUARTETS BY DEBUSSY, RAVEL AND DUTILLEUX; AND COLLABORATIONS WITH LEGENDARY MUSICIANS The Juilliard String Quartet is interna...
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MICHAEL STEINBERG 1928-2009 Michael Steinberg, among the pre-eminent music critics of our time, died on Sunday, 26 July 2009 at the age of 80. Despite the onset of cancer more than three years a...
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THE MUSIC MOUNTAIN The classical world's most coveted retreat By Alex Ross Mitsuko Uchida, one of the world's leading classical pianists, could comfortably pass her summers flying from one fe...
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NICHOLAS MAW, BRITISH COMPOSER, DIES AT 73 By Allan Kozinn Nicholas Maw, a British composer best known for a sumptuous Violin Concerto he composed for Joshua Bell and a powerfully emotional op...
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KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN'S CONTROVERSIAL APPEARANCE AT DISNEY HALL By Mark Swed In 1978, an unknown, soft-spoken, 21-year-old Polish pianist appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for i...
SWAN SONG FOR A MUSIC STORE AND CLUBHOUSE A CROSSROADS OF MAESTROS AND TYROS, THE VENERABLE JOSEPH PATELSON MUSIC HOUSE IN MANHATTAN HAS BEEN LIKE A LIVING ROOM FOR THE CLASSICAL MUSIC WORLD. ...
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NEA CHOOSES FIVE FOR 2009 OPERA HONORS By Anne Midgette The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the second crop of winners of the new NEA Opera Honors, established last year under the...