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Mirror Visions Ensemble presents Journeys in Review
Mirror Visions Ensemble presents Journeys Mirror Visions Ensemble- Vira Slywotzky, soprano Scott Murphree, tenor Jesse Blumberg, baritone Grant Wenaus, piano SubCulture, New York, NY March 10, 2015 To celebrate the upcoming release of their CD entitled The Three-Paneled Mirror (Centaur Records CRC 3381/3382), comprised entirely of commissioned works, Mirror Visions Ensemble presented a program…
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Cameron Carpenter in Review
Cameron Carpenter, organ Orchestra Hall, Detroit February 23, 2015 Organist Cameron Carpenter walked out on the stage of a sparsely populated Orchestra Hall in Detroit Monday evening (Feb. 23rd) to play the International Touring Organ, an electronic instrument he designed to liberate himself from aging and often badly maintained pipe organs. He’s like a kid…
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Musica Sacra in Review
Musica Sacra Kent Tritle, Music Director; Michael Sheetz, Assistant Music Director Lianne Coble, soprano; John Turanno, tenor; Malcolm J. Merriweather, baritone; Arthur Fiacco, Jr., cellist; Walter Hilse and Raymond Nagem, organists Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, NY March 4, 2015 It is not often that one hears three world premieres all…
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Community High School District 99 and Bob Rogers Travel Present “New York Nouveau” in Review
Community High School District 99 and Bob Rogers Travel Present “New York Nouveau” Downers Grove North High School Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble: William S. Miller, Jennifer Mullen, Brayer Teague, conductors Downers Grove South High School Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble: Greg Hensel, Craig Roselieb, Glenn Williams, conductors Guest Artists: Gaudete Brass Quintet; Don Owens,…
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Cincinnati World Piano Competition presents the 2013 Gold Medal winner: Marianna Prjevalskaya in Review
Cincinnati World Piano Competition presents the 2013 Gold Medal winner Marianna Prjevalskaya, piano Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY February 23, 2015 A miracle happened on one of the coldest nights in a seemingly endless New York City winter- a stunning debut piano recital by a young competition winner. It was one…
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Mason Gross School of the Arts presents “The Unknown Diabelli Variations” in Review
Mason Gross School of the Arts presents “The Unknown Diabelli Variations” With pianists from the Mason Gross School of the Arts Min Kwon, artistic director Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY February 17, 2015 Mardi Gras is a day for excess before the penitential season of Lent. There certainly was an excess…
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Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Two Cultures, One Dream in Review
Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Two Cultures, One Dream Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and principal conductor; Jie Yi, Debut Conductor Earnestine Rodgers Robinson, visiting composer; Heather Sorenson, arranger, orchestrator and accompanist Ana Isabel Lazo, soprano; Ting Li, tenor; Tshombe Selby, tenor; Chai-Lun Yueh, baritone; Brian Wahlstrom, baritone and narrator; James T. Meeks…
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Pianist Carlo Grante in Review
Carlo Grante, Pianist Masters of High Romanticism, Program III: Johannes Brahms Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY February 10, 2015 The sheer bravery of structuring a recital devoted wholly to Brahms and his many themes and variations was enough to earn my respect for Carlo Grante even before he sat down at…
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Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents The Music of Karl Jenkins in Review
Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents The Music of Karl Jenkins Karl Jenkins, composer/conductor Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director/Principal conductor Lucy Knight, soprano; Mark Watson, baritone Distinguished Concerts Orchestra; Distinguished Concerts Singers International Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY January 19, 2015 In what has become an annual tradition, Distinguished Concerts International New…
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Spectrum Symphony
Go see the Spectrum Symphony! They recently presented an outstanding concert with David A. Grunberg, artistic director and conductor, and Susan Heerema as their marvelous concertmaster and violin soloist. Heerema is truly mesmerizing with her graceful, spirited, elegant phrasing, and her extraordinary beauty of tone. Gerard Reuter provided stellar and energetic playing in Mozart’s famous…