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☆ Can Marin Alsop Shatter Another Glass Ceiling?
  + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Zachary Woolfe | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Marin Alsop’s conducting students were taking turns on the podium recently in a rehearsal room at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. Alsop, who spent untold hours at Meyerhoff Hall during her 14 years as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, a tenure that ended in 2021, teaches in technical, tangible details. In a measure with 11 beats, she suggested using the last as a pickup to the following bar, to give the players an extra bit of clarity. “You’re not accompanying,” she told a rising maestro who seemed to be giving an invisible musician too much leeway. “You’re in charge.”
Persons: Marin Alsop’s, Stravinsky’s, Alsop, “ You’re, ” Organizations: Meyerhoff Symphony, Meyerhoff, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Locations: Baltimore
☆ The Lyrical Century of Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “A Chestnut Stuck in Time: Nostalgia Stymies Fusion,” by Ethan Iverson (Arts & Leisure, Jan. 28), about “Rhapsody in Blue” at 100:Mr. Iverson’s article saddles Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with the task of not only changing music history (which it did) but also singularly overhauling Western music pedagogy. No artist in any medium could accomplish this, so I’m not sure why Mr. Iverson is holding poor Gershwin to this unrealistic standard. What the article did do was make me listen to “Rhapsody in Blue,” twice, for the first time in about 20 years. Mr. Iverson finds the work “naïve and corny” — points he does not elaborate upon — but I was struck by what a formal miracle the piece is. Like Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” written 11 years earlier, Gershwin’s “Rhapsody” holds together through the savvy repetition of varied and memorable material.
Persons: Ethan Iverson, I’m, Iverson, Gershwin, ”, Stravinsky’s, Mr, — Organizations: Arts & Leisure
☆ Review: In These Dances, the Themes Are Lines and Curves
  + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Siobhan Burke | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Since then, Fenley has returned to working quietly on new material, building on her nearly 50 years of making dances as the founder of Molissa Fenley and Company. Opening night, on Wednesday, felt like a private glimpse into her choreographic mind: no splashes, just a steady, rigorous exploration of movement to music. The program’s greatest force is Fenley herself, who, at 69, dances with a searing clarity and equanimity, no matter the limitations that naturally come with age. This is not one of those shows in which a veteran artist makes a cameo to be momentarily revered. The recurring themes are the lines and curves of Fenley’s limpid movement vocabulary, based in ballet and reminiscent of the Merce Cunningham technique, but developed, as she has said, around the idiosyncrasies of her own body.
Persons: Molissa Fenley, ”, Fenley, Christiana Axelsen, Justin Lynch, Timothy Ward, Michael Ferrara, Enriqueta, Merce Cunningham Locations: Downtown Brooklyn
☆ The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival
  + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Joshua Barone | More About Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Its draw is also in the departures from tradition. Without them, Aix would be another Salzburg instead of the most interesting opera festival in Europe — though at this point in Pierre Audi’s tenure as artistic director, “opera” is too limiting a label, with a slate over the past week of film, music theater, concerts and, yes, opera, including two new works, each of vastly different character. Many summer festivals exist primarily for the pleasure of music-making beyond the usual concert halls and theaters. In this edition, not everything succeeded artistically (or with audiences); some of what I saw was reckless, some of it offensive. In the pit, so to speak, was the Orchestre de Paris under the baton of its music director, Klaus Mäkelä.
Persons: Pierre Audi’s, ”, —, Klaus Mäkelä Organizations: Ballets, Vitrolles, Orchestre de Paris Locations: Aix, Salzburg, Europe
☆ Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99
  + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Robert Berkvist | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“Lady Bird: First Lady of the Land,” an opera about Lady Bird Johnson, for which he wrote the libretto and Henry Mollicone wrote the music, had its premiere in Texas in 2016 and has been performed in New York and elsewhere. In an interview with The Times, he said that he had no thoughts of retirement, and that he continued to attend every show on Broadway, as he had for many years. He added that he was working on a new show of his own. “I hope I live long enough to complete it,” he said. “I won’t tell you what idea I have, because you’ll steal it.”Robert Berkvist, a former New York Times arts editor, died in January.
Persons: Harnick, ”, Bizet’s “ Carmen, Jinks, Horse Marines ”, Jack Beeson, Norton Juster, Arnold Black, Bird, Lady Bird Johnson, Henry Mollicone, “, ” Robert Berkvist, Peter Keepnews Organizations: Horse Marines, The Times, New York Times Locations: Texas, New York, “ Dragons
☆ It Rocks in the Tree Tops, but Is That Bird Making Music?
  + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Marlowe Starling | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
According to Dr. Doolittle’s research, the song patterns of Eurasian blackbirds found in that region resemble Stravinsky’s compositional style. Neuroscience research points to the idea that this affinity between birds and humans is not so unusual. But the brains of monkeys and non-songbirds, like gulls, are organized in a different way, Dr. Bolhuis said. For example, both humans and birds can produce smash hits that evoke feelings in their listeners, the psychologist Dr. Tchernichovski explained. “This is the magic in music,” Dr. Tchernichovski said.
Persons: François, Bernard Mâche, zoomusicology, Igor Stravinsky’s, Dr, Johan Bolhuis, Bolhuis, Tchernichovski, ”, Birdsong, “ Locations: Ukraine
☆ Stravinsky’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’: An Opera That Surprises
  + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Emma Schneider | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
In 1913 “The Rite” took inspiration from Russian folk music. Less than four decades later, the music of Stravinsky’s opera “The Rake’s Progress” looked to the classical and baroque canon instead. Stravinsky began writing the opera in 1947, when he stumbled upon a series of 18th-century William Hogarth prints at the Art Institute of Chicago. The artworks, titled “A Rake’s Progress,” depict a young man whose inherited wealth leads him to debauchery and ruin. Wanting to compose an opera in English ever since his arrival in the States in 1939, he finally found his subject.
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