Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...

The big event at Lincoln Center this summer is the Run Amoc* festival, produced by the American Modern Opera Company. More than opera, the festival will cover instrumental performances and dance ...

At first glance, the program might be described as “contemporary conventional,” with its generous helpings of lauded present-day composers (Gabriela Ortiz and Terence Blanchard), a nod to a recent ...

Pianist William Yang is the winner of this year’s National Chopin Competition, an event founded by the Chopin Foundation of ...

“If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season Monday night, “it would ...

Akhnaten, the last opera in Philip Glass’s trilogy of science, politics, and religion, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night. (The Met presented Satyagraha in 2011, and back in 1976 ...

Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...

Act I was lukewarm, and a lot of that had to do with the singing and orchestral playing. Queequeg and Greenhorn are the first characters to sing, and Green and Costello were subdued in the opening ...

The main attraction at New York Philharmonic concerts in David Geffen Hall this week is newness. It comes in two parts; a world premiere composition and the Philharmonic debut of a world-class soloist ...

One Response to “Reich premiere spotlights fervent pulse of strong Philharmonic program” Posted Oct 09, 2023 at 1:11 pm by PK I want to thank Mr. Grella for his thoughtful and insightful review. I too ...

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin returned to Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening for the first of two concerts this week. They are the prelude to the orchestra’s first-ever Asian ...

4. Music of Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe. Ensemble Signal. Greatness can be difficult to appreciate when it’s part of the contemporary scene. But Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe have been two of the ...