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Audience rolls down tracks during 'Die Soldaten'
Associated Press WriterThe opening note of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's "Die Soldaten" has to be the most moving in opera when heard in David Pountney's production: The 974-seat bleacher containing the audience slowly starts to roll down train tracks in the Park Avenue Armory's...Tags: Lincoln Center, Music Theater, Jazz Music
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Leonard Slatkin takes leave from NSO
Sun Music CriticOn a shelf in Leonard Slatkin's office at the Kennedy Center sit three of his half-dozen Grammy Awards, alongside photographs of him receiving honors from the two presidents whose terms coincided with his own as music director of the National Symphony...Tags: Gustav Mahler, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Del Tredici
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Organist gives Messiaen works a vibrant turn
Sun Music CriticSo far, it doesn't look like Baltimore will hear the massive, hair-raising Turangalīla Symphony or some other big orchestral work by Olivier Messiaen to mark the 2008 centennial of the French composer's birth, but, thanks to organist Jonathan William...Tags: Peabody Conservatory, Classical Music, Academic Progress, Fashion Trends, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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An engaging finale to another Jacaranda season
Special to The TimesJacaranda, the illuminating and increasingly important Southland music series, bills itself as "music at the edge of Santa Monica." True enough, its focus courts edginess, if cautiously, and with a mandate on mixing challenging and ear-pleasing fare. And...Tags: Classical Music, Pierre Boulez, Paul Dukas, Rugby League
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UCLA organist Christoph Bull pulls out the stops with 'Organica'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCLAD IN jeans and a long-sleeved Von Dutch T-shirt, blond, blue-eyed Christoph Bull shucked his rock 'n' roll boots and got set to work. Nearby, Max Kaplan, a twentysomething student in a T-shirt, khaki shorts and flip-flops, whipped out his ax and got...Tags: Classical Music, Ceremonies, Steven Spielberg, First United Corporation, George Clinton
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Exploring the canyons of the West
Newsday Staff WriterA tour of America's canyon country is a visit to our Valhalla. It's the abode of Indian gods and outlaw heroes, of Mormon preachers leading their people into violent mountains, and of cavalrymen slaughtering Navajo sheep in the name of President Lincoln....Tags: Tourism and Leisure Industry, John Ford, Human Rights, Christianity, Road Transportation
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A dispassionate era's works played at full tilt
STAFF WRITERThe Italian pianist Marino Formenti began an idiosyncratic three-concert hustle through the past 50 years in piano music with three flavors of Franco-German radicalism from the mid 1950s. That was the high point of Puritanism in classical music, when...Tags: Classical Music, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lincoln Center, Music Industry
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Music review, Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano recital at Symphony Center
Tribune Music CriticThe concept behind Pierre-Laurent Aimard's recital Sunday at Symphony Center was so pristinely simple that you wondered why other major performers haven't come up with it before him. Since so many leading composers of the 20th Century worked in small...Tags: Classical Music, John Cage, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann
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Test patterns
Chicago Tribune rock criticRadiohead's "Kid A," was one of the most experimental rock albums ever to debut atop the U.S. pop chart. Only seven months later comes the band's "Amnesiac." It's expected to make a strong run at becoming the No. 1 album in the country, and if it does, it...Tags: Archaeology, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Popular Music, Rock and Roll Music, Neil Young
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Classical review, Ojai Festival with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dawn Upshaw and others
Tribune music criticOJAI, Calif.A small, bowl-shaped amphitheater, framed by towering oaks in a city park, is hardly the first place you would expect to hear contemporary music. But for four days in late spring, the annual Ojai Festival serves up a feast of the new and...Tags: Festive Event, Classical Music, Popular Music, Aaron Copland, Heitor Villa-Lobos
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