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New York Concert Artists and Associates presents Yunwha Song in Review
New York Concert Artists and Associates presents Yunwha Song Yunwha Song, flute; Soyeon Kim, piano Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY May 29, 2015 It’s hard not to like a flute recital, for the sounds the instrument makes are nearly always beguiling. This may result in a sameness of sound over…
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Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Verdi Requiem in Review
Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Verdi Requiem Jonathan Griffith, conductor Distinguished Concerts Orchestra; Distinguished Concerts Singers International Penelope Shumate, soprano; Claudia Chapa, mezzo-soprano; John Pickle, tenor; Christopher Job, bass Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY May 24, 2015 The Verdi Requiem is one of sacred music’s guilty pleasures, always thrilling…
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Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents A High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass in Review
Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents A High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass Navo Middle School Varsity Treble Choir: Mary Margaret Sadler, director; Denise Stephens, accompanist Tim Sharp, composer/conductor The Chuck Nation Band: Chuck Nation, fiddle/mandolin; Susan Nation, acoustic bass; Libby Nation-Whitehead, mandolin/guitar; Jody Hughes, guitar/banjo; Steve Vincent, drums Distinguished Concerts International Singers Stern Auditorium at…
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Ensemble 212 and Multicultural Sonic Evolution (MuSE) present Voices in Harmony in Review
Ensemble 212 and Multicultural Sonic Evolution (MuSE) present Voices in Harmony Ensemble 212- Kyunghun Kim and Yoon Jae Lee, conductors MuSE Chorus- Yuti Kitamura and Hirona Amamiya, choral directors Julia Gebhardt, soprano; Mio Kanehara, mezzo-soprano; Christian Davakis, tenor; Jeffrey Goble, baritone Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, New York, NY May 20, 2015 Ensemble 212, a New…
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Tempo Trapezio CD in Review
Tempo Trapezio CD Misha Quint, cello Svetlana Gorokhovich, piano Blue Griffin Recordings BGR323 (also available on iTunes) Misha Quint has recorded a wonderfully diverse array of works on his new CD, Tempo Trapezio. His pianist, Svetlana Gorokhovich, provides much more than accompaniment, as she interweaves her intermittent solo passages with subtlety and—when called for—real…
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Manhattan Concert Productions presents Masterworks Festival Chorus and New York City Chamber Orchestra in Review
Manhattan Concert Productions presents Masterworks Festival Chorus and New York City Chamber Orchestra Masterworks Festival Chorus San Jose State University Choraliers The Phoenix Symphony Chorus New York City Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Benson and Thomas Bookhout, conductors Layna Chianakis, mezzo-soprano; Jessica Sandidge, soprano; Michael Scarcelle, bass; Marguerite Krull, soprano; Amy Maude Helfer, mezzo-soprano; Nathan Munson, tenor;…
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Rondo FORMA 2015 Competition Winners’ Recital in Review
Rondo Young Artist presents Rondo FORMA 2015 Competition Winners’ Recital Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY April 19, 2015 The Rondo Young Artist program had its first-ever college-level piano competition this year, and they presented the winners in recital on Sunday afternoon. What a promising crop of young pianists this is!…
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Maria Prinz, piano, in Review
Legato Arts presents Maria Prinz, piano Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY April 18, 2015 Maria Prinz, a Viennese pianist who has been heard with flutists in New York in recent seasons, returned last weekend to perform a solo recital that was in her words, “all about Mozart and Schubert’s Vienna” in…