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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Oct 25, 2008
"I cannot judge this work," Leonard Bernstein wrote in the liner notes to the original cast recording of his "Mass." "I am much too close to it."
Also tagged: the, mass, of, new york, making, baltimore, leonard bernstein, john adams, most, carnegie hall, the new york times company, stephen schwartz, john f kennedy center for the performing arts, marin alsop, kent nagano, howard klein, spencer mason, harold schonberg
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Sep 6, 2008
In the ongoing quest to broaden opera's appeal, contemporary opera is one arrow in a sparely filled quiver. New operas are based on world events, current movies, popular books. Their music is written by funky living …
Also tagged: boston, new, opera, and, is, sex and the city, john adams, peter greenaway, pulitzer prize committee, when, peter sellars, washington national opera, robert rauschenberg, brooklyn academy of music, r scott wheeler, david lang, michael nyman, unproved, niki de saint phalle, douglas j cuomo, kenneth koch
pastemagazine.com » Paste Magazine - Aug 27, 2008
For most of the past half century, the artistic tag “international”—and the “ism” that labeled it a cultural trend—held a vaguely unpleasant connotation. It began cosmopolitan and cool, but then the concept started to …
Also tagged: music, features, culture, buenos aires, kronos quartet, issue 45
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Apr 12, 2008
Pro Musica Hebraica, a concert series dedicated to exploring lost Jewish music, had a successful inaugural concert on Thursday evening at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
Also tagged: music, life, new, lost, jewish, condoleezza rice, breathing, st petersburg, into, charles krauthammer, the washington post company, john f kennedy center for the performing arts, the juilliard school, itzhak perlman, alexander krein, joel engel, mikhail gnesin, solomon rosowsky, society for jewish folk music
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Apr 9, 2008
Just what is "Jewish music," anyway? In some cases the answer is clear: liturgical music and Yiddish operetta; klezmer and Israeli pop. But in this realm of classical or art music, you run into all kinds of semantic …
Also tagged: world, music, hollywood, washington dc, of, new york, tel aviv, jewish, a, exploring, st petersburg, university of virginia, dave brubeck, charles krauthammer, the washington post company, john f kennedy center for the performing arts, the library of congress, the juilliard school, james conlon, itzhak perlman