Classical Voice North America
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Classical Voice North America is the web journal of the Music Critics Association of North America. Its purpose is to provide expert reviews, commentary, and reportage by professional music journalists from across the continent and to cover national trends from a regional perspective. Stay tuned to get the latest updates.
Classical Voice North America
1d ago
APPRECIATION – This was a shocker. Not because 80 is an unseemly age at which to make an exit, but because Andrew Davis, the British conductor who died April 20, had cut such a convivially youthful figure onstage for so many decades.
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Classical Voice North America
1d ago
CALGARY – For its first go at any of Wagner's Ring dramas, Calgary Opera moved the considerably expanded orchestra from a cramped pit and onto the action space, front and center amid an uneasy flow of gods and giants and Rhinemaidens.
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1d ago
NEW YORK – La ville morte should have been the sensation of 1914 Paris but for the hand of fate. More than a century later, the only opera composed by the influential teacher was given its New York premiere by Catapult Opera Company.
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Classical Voice North America
4d ago
BERKELEY – Set to Nico Muhly's cycle The Street, inspired by 14 poems by Alice Goodman and here renamed Via Dolorosa, Morris' dance had its quietly beautiful world premiere on a program with the dance of another death: that of Socrates.
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Classical Voice North America
6d ago
LOS ANGELES – Conductor Louis Langrée seems to have found a potent connection with the LA Philharmonic. His pairing of Ravel's Ma mère l’Oye and Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony sparked one of the longest curtain-call ovations I've heard here.
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Classical Voice North America
1w ago
DIGITAL REVIEW – In his latest recital disc, In The Shadows, the eternally curious baritenor Michael Spyres surveys some of the Bayreuth bard’s antecedents, and also recaps his own vocal journey as he embarks on the Wagnerian canon.
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Classical Voice North America
1w ago
NEW YORK – We take for granted our ability to snap, and immediately see, dozens of photos a day. Composer Luna Pearl Woolf and librettist David Van Taylor’s Number Our Days: A Photographic Oratorio recalls a different time.
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Classical Voice North America
1w ago
SEATTLE – In 2016, Kahchun Wong won first prize in the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition with his take on the Third Symphony. That rapport with the composer was evident in a sublime account of the Third with the Seattle Symphony.
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Classical Voice North America
1w ago
DIGITAL REVIEW – Competition is keen for the Mahler and Strauss recorded by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under Rafael Payare. And do we need Gustavo Gimeno's Turangalîla-Symphonie with the Toronto Symphony?
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Classical Voice North America
2w ago
PORTLAND, Ore. – The first half of the Oregon Symphony program led by David Danzmayr featured pieces by William Grant Still and James B. Wilson that reflected on racism. The mood was softened by a moving account of the Requiem.
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