Archive for Concert review
Manfred Honeck’s “Exceptional” Suites from Strauss Operas
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette offer previews of what to expect in the new Pittsburgh Symphony recording of Suites from Richard Strauss operas with reviews from the ensemble’s performances of the works: “The concert opened with Honeck’s ‘Elektra Suite,’ which the conductor created with Tomas Ille. Strauss’s opera is even more brutal, sensational and progressive in compositional style than his previous opera ‘Salome.’ His use of bitonality preceded Stravinsky’s in ‘Petrouchka’ by several years.…
New York Concert Review on True Concord Voices and Orchestra’s New York Debut
New York Concert Review critic Jeffrey Williams reviews the True Concord Voices and Orchestra performance at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall where they performed Stephen Paulus’ Prayers and Remembrances as part of their New York debut! “Prayers and Remembrances is a seven-movement work, each movement using carefully selected poems, both secular and non-secular, that all touched on the concept of grief, but also recovery and spirituality in living. … The music is tonal, with harmonic…
Wichita Blues Society Recommends Doug MacLeod CDs!
Randy Crump reviews Doug MacLeod’s “Art for Your Ears” concert in the Wichita Blues Society’s “Blues Riff” newsletter: “MacLeod, who is a master storyteller and very entertaining, explained the blues to an audience of over 300 people. Drawing on his 40 years on the road as a bluesman, he introduced each song with a great story about why and how it came about. He painted a picture in each audience member’s mind as he prepared…
Joel Fan Concert Review – Washington Post
Joel Fan Washington Post Review In performance: Joel FanWeb-only review: Fan gives fantastic close to National Gallery’s American Music Festivalby Joe Banno Pianist Joel Fan (a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble) played a terrific lunchtime recital at the National Gallery on Wednesday of works by American composers who have embraced both the romantic past and a more dissonant present. Elliott Carter’s seminal 1945 Piano Sonata may have ranked as the program’s most significant…
Joel Fan Concert Review from the Las Vegas Sun
Philharmonic shows poise in weekend aural safari By Joe Brown (contact)Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 The Philharmonic was joined for George Gershwin’s Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra by New York-based pianist Joel Fan, who brought a crisp bite and precision to the piece’s visually showy, technically difficult (and loud) hammering runs on the Steinway grand piano… To Read the review in it’s entirety, please visit the Las Vegas Sun website by clicking HERE