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• News, Thoughts

  Off again.

  11.28.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  As I sit typing this on my sofa, I’m listening to a pre-release of Enchanted Carols, the latest CD from Howard Goodall with the same 8 soprano / organ / cello lineup as the Enchanted Voices (which held the #1 spot for 6 months!). We recorded it in early September (I talked about it very [...]

• Concerts

  It’s all changing at the NY Phil

  10.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The last world premiere at a Philharmonic gala opening night was for the inaugural concert at the new Philharmonic Hall, as it was then known, in 1962. Leonard Bernstein conducted Copland’s “Connotations for Orchestra.”
  This comes from a really interesting article in the NY Times about the Philharmonic’s new season and, more importantly, their soon to be new [...]