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☆ Review: A Case for Understated Majesty at the Philharmonic
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Take Anders Hillborg’s second piano concerto, “The MAX Concerto,” which had its local premiere with the New York Philharmonic on Thursday. Programmed somewhat arbitrarily between works by Sibelius and Rachmaninoff, it was more entertaining than either of them, and just as well crafted. Likable without being eager to please, thrilling without shameless dazzle, it is, like Ax, enjoyable simply because it’s excellent. And, crucially, Hillborg’s concerto works regardless of how familiar a listener is with his music, or any classical music for that matter. Or you could just sit back and sense, intuitively, the genial majesty and pleasure coursing through it all.

Persons: Anders Hillborg’s, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Emanuel Ax, Ax, Manny Ax, Beethoven’s, ”, Bach Organizations: New York Philharmonic Locations: San Francisco

☆ Two Pianists Make a Life Out of an Intimate Art Form
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Hugh Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It looked like some kind of grand music exam. The pianists Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy sat down at their instruments onstage at Wigmore Hall and began to play for an audience of two. It was June 2020, and Kolesnikov and Tsoy were, like virtually every other musician at that time, playing a livestreamed concert. (He could be heard frantically recapping the piece as he walked down the street. The pandemic forced Kolesnikov, 34, and Tsoy, 35, to recalibrate.

Persons: Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy, Kolesnikov, —, “, ” Organizations: Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall Locations: London, Copenhagen, —, recalibrate

NEW YORK (AP) — Carnegie Hall’s 2024-25 season will feature a festival celebrating Latin music titled “Nuestros Sonidos (Our Sounds).”Gustavo Dudamel opens the season and the festival on Oct. 8, leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. A dozen festival concerts were announced Wednesday and more will be added, with events throughout New York City. The London Symphony Orchestra, in its first season with chief conductor Antonio Pappano, plays at Carnegie Hall for the first time since 2005 when it performs on March 5, 2025. Pianist Igor Levit gives a Jan. 12 recital in which he performs Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Soprano Asmik Grigorian has a recital on Dec. 17, then returns March 18 for Strauss’ “Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)” with the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Möst.

Persons: —, ” Gustavo Dudamel, Lang Lang, Gustavo Castillo, Dudamel's, Gabriela Ortiz, Alisa Weilerstein, Mendelssohn’s, María Valverde, Natalia Lafourcade, ”, ” “ We've, Clive Gillinson, Carnegie, ” Gillinson, Kirill Petrenko, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Igor Levit, Asmik Grigorian, Strauss, Franz Welser Organizations: — Carnegie, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Music, Arts of South, ” Carnegie, Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jan, Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Cleveland Orchestra Locations: Spanish, New York City, Arts of South Africa, America

☆ Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes: A Diary of an Influential Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Joshua Barone | More About Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

For example, the Joyce’s program features a duet of hers set to the 18th Etude. “My first reaction is just to listen,” she said — to the Rachmaninoff-esque shading, the mellowness and alluring romanticism. Peck similarly described his étude, the Sixth, in poetic rather than structural terms. And the amount of time the étude takes, it feels like an eternity.”Not everyone has such strong emotional reactions to the études. “What Philip would say is, there’s plenty of other music in the world.”If there is any agreement on the études, it may be about their specific difficulties.

Persons: Childs, “, ”, —, Rachmaninoff, Peck, “ There’s, Andres, Philip, Mozart, Davies Organizations: Geffen

☆ For Joan Armatrading, Classical Music Is Just Another Genre
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Hugh Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

ARMATRADING WAS BORN on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts in 1950, and moved to Birmingham, England, at age 7. I didn’t really ask anybody’s opinion, which is how I am still.”Some of Armatrading’s earliest experiences with classical music came through movies. “If you have 18 strings or something, and they’re doing that thing, you’re gonna cry,” she said. Armatrading is adamant that, in her Symphony, she just wanted to sound “like Joan,” but she’s also happy for listeners to bring their own associations. This symphony is by no means the first case of a pop artist to engage in classical composition.

Persons: ARMATRADING, “, ”, It’s, Rachmaninoff, Purcell, Tchaikovsky, Armatrading, Joan, she’s, Vaughan Williams, Paul McCartney’s, ” — Organizations: Decca Locations: St, Kitts, Birmingham, England

Adding Ukraine to NATO and the European Union would be the biggest geopolitical shift in our lifetime. If we bring Ukraine into that European Union, that would be one of the most consequential geopolitical tipping points since East Germany was united with West Germany. Who was the Russian spy in East Germany who was introduced to international relations by running the KGB there? It was Vladimir Putin whose big introduction to geopolitics was watching the magnet of the West melt down East Germany and lead to the unification of these two countries. The big decision point going forward is, when do we say to the Ukrainians we may have to settle for a dirty deal?

Persons: I’m Tom Friedman, they’re, Who, Vladimir Putin, Putin, we’re, I’ve, We’re, Peter the, It’s, Dostoevsky, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Sakharov Organizations: Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Orthodox Church, European Union, NATO, EU, Union, East Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Saint, NATO, Russia, East Germany, West Germany, East Germany’s Germany, Russian, Germany, Siberia

☆ After Walking Offstage, a Concert Pianist Changes Her Tune
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

AUGUST BLUE, by Deborah LevyIn the work of Deborah Levy, certain elements recur in ever new arrangements: swimming, seafood, bees and silence; brokenness and recovery; the patriarchy. In Levy’s latest novel, “August Blue,” it is musical recomposition that becomes the overt, and sometimes overly self-conscious, metaphor for female revolt and reinvention. For a little over two minutes, she went off script, playing music that came to her unbidden, before walking offstage. At a flea market in Athens, this other woman snapped up two mechanical dancing horses that the pianist also wanted. While she chases what may be hallucinatory glimpses of the doppelgänger across Europe, she takes to wearing the trilby hat the mystery woman dropped at the market.

Persons: Deborah Levy, Booker, “, Levy’s, unemployable Locations: British, Vienna, Athens, London, Paris, Sardinia, Greece, Europe

☆ The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And in “Succession,” he evokes a classical music tradition in which a composer doodles at the piano to improvise on a theme, putting it through permutations based on mood and form. This could serve as good parlor entertainment, but also the basis for inventive, kaleidoscopic works; Britell’s soundtrack, in its pairing of piano and orchestra, has an ancestor in Rachmaninoff’s concerto-like “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.” He would do well to adapt his score into a similar piece. With his theme and variations, Britell offers a parallel of the show itself: an idée fixe established at the start — a patriarch’s departure from the top of his business empire is more of a when than an if — and a circular (some would say static) plot about the ways in which three of his children maneuver to take over. It is a premise that carries on even after the father’s death early this season; the most recent episode, about his funeral, demonstrates the psychological hold Logan Roy still has over his children and how, united in grief, they nevertheless continue to scheme.

☆ A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Javier C. Hernández | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“He’s a musician way beyond his years,” said the conductor Marin Alsop, who headed the Cliburn jury and led the Rachmaninoff performance. “Technically, he’s phenomenal, and the colors and dynamics are phenomenal. He’s incredibly musical and seems like a very old soul. Born in Siheung, a suburb of Seoul, Lim had a childhood filled with soccer, baseball and music. He began studying the piano at 7, when his parents enrolled him in a neighborhood music academy.

☆ The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Oussama Zahr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When orchestras come to Carnegie Hall, their programs typically tell you two things: who they are and what they can do. Or when the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko opened up the complex worlds of Mahler’s Seventh with coordinated virtuosity. And over two nights at Carnegie this week, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its music director, Andris Nelsons, told their story gradually, one piece at a time, in canonical works by Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius and Mozart. Among American orchestras, the Boston Symphony’s sound is enviably rich. That opulence was readily apparent in the ceaseless flow of cantabile melodies in Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony.

☆ There are 2 types of jealousy. Here's the one that makes us 'miserable and nasty,' say career experts
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Liz Fosslien | Mollie Duffy West | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Luckily, with the right tools, you can decode what your jealousy is trying to tell you, and then turn your emotions into positive action. But benign envy motivates us to work harder, while malicious envy makes us miserable and nasty. Use these phrases to shift your thinking from malicious envy to benign envy: "I'm inspired by _____. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Illustration: Liz FosslienYou may not always be exactly where you want to be, but chances are you're not where you used to be, either. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Illustration: Liz Fosslien

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