The CMG Concert Calendar: October 2022
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 Owls quartet -- any group that takes headshotswith a teddy bear is one I want to see!Friends, I'm going to keep it short this month -- I just did the math, and the number of words I'm set to write in October is....dizzying. Look our for my upcoming bylines in Early Music America, Musical America, Opera News, and more!In between sleepless nights and due dates, here's where you'll find ..read more
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The CMG Concert Calendar: September 2022 (We're Back!)
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Teatro Real OrchestraAfter a busy summer of tying off loose threads and starting new ones, I'm itching to get back into the concert hall — musically, it's been a dry season in NYC absent the once-robust Mostly Mozart Festival. And of course, I had COVID straight through two of my favorite August events: the TIME:SPANS festival, a haven for the most mind-rending of contemporary music, and ..read more
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It's been a big couple of months!
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 This is going to be a short post. The last three months have been the busiest of my life -- exciting busy, but busy busy. Here are just a few of the exciting updates:Music criticism competitions exist, and I won one! It was like extremely compressed, niche college. I wrote about the experience here. (While you're there, subscribe -- it's free!)I started a new job with the fantastic Live Arts ..read more
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The CMG Concert Calendar: May 2022
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I'm a few days late here -- I think the month of April is designed to kill the human race. No one I know had an easy, relaxing month, myself included. I made it to maybe half of the concerts I wrote up. Averaged maybe one a week in the latter half of the month?Anyway, I'm in the process of bouncing back. Stress levels are still high, and convincing myself to leave the house is getting harder ..read more
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The CMG Concert Calendar: April 2022
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I think I'm in a rhythm now. Last month, I felt myself burning out. Not this month. I held my off days sacred. I didn't go to concerts for the sake of having plans. And I'm still exhausted, but I'm more happy exhausted and less cranky exhausted (though I do not regret napping instead of seeing Rodelinda last Sunday).Between Holy Week and all these amazing concerts, April might kill me. But what ..read more
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The CMG Concert Calendar: March 2022
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February was a month of some great shows, some mediocre shows, and a lot of shows that were just...fine. I'm still reeling from an eight-show-in-seven-day week where most of the concerts fell into that last camp, I may need to reconsider my strategy -- I've always had trouble balancing quantity and quality. This month, I'm going to be a little more prudent about my nights off, and maybe that will ..read more
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The CMG Concert Calendar: February
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Thanks to our dear friend Omicron, I took a prolonged concert break over the winter holidays -- I basically spent Christmas week shuttling between my church gig and home, where I did nothing but watch 30 Rock in bed. But I've decided that, for the sake of my own mental health, it's time for me to go back to the concert hall. I just wish that had been the case for the night Igor Levit played ..read more
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The CMG Concert Calendar: December
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I had fun doing this last month, so I'm going to do it again! Same disclaimer: I can only be in one place at a time, and sometimes that place is somewhere other than the concert hall. Just because I recommend it doesn't mean I'm going to be there.Another note: almost all of these concerts have student discounts. Someone with a student ID rarely has to pay more than $20 anywhere.MESSIAHSI miss the ..read more
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The CMG Concert Calendar: November
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I should disclaim: I'm may not actually be at every single one of these concerts. There will be a few with overlapping times. This is my perfect-world list -- if I didn't have to obey the laws of space and time, I would make sure to be at every single one of these performances.RECURRINGMET OPERAS (all month, I'm too lazy to write out the dates)Porgy and BessMet Opera House | $37 and upcond ..read more
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Some October Highlights and Beyond
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New York's "leading young early-music ensemble"perhaps looking a touch younger than they do today(God, I'm going to get myself killed one of these days...)For someone who insisted that he was re-taking the classical criticism world by storm, I've been pretty quiet these past five or so weeks. Time, it stops for no one. Motivation has been hard to come by. I know I'll never have more time for ..read more
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