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More on Swed's swipe

2008-03-19 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Swed's January 21 column in the Los Angeles Times upset me so. Rereading it, I do have to acknowledge that I have absolutely no problem with the first two-thirds or so, a comprehensive overview of some of the recent frictions between some major American orchestras and their high-profile conductors. (Sort of a "The Pope is Catholic" story, but...
 
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Mark Swed: Karlheinz Stockhausen memorial concert at Holland Festival - calendarlive.com

2008-06-22 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
Mark Swed: Karlheinz Stockhausen memorial concert at Holland Festival calendarlive.com, CA - Jun 21, 2008 One has been the music of the German visionary composer Karlheinz Stockhausen , who had a long association with Dutch music and this 61-year-old event
 
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New Sounds in San Francisco Opera???

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2008-09-18 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Swed , a Times music critic, was complimentary of Wallace's music saying, "The sounds of Chinese opera pervade the entire work. Except in minor instances, the Chinese characters are portrayed by Chinese singers, and the swooping character of their native music frequently infects their vocal lines. Wallace plays the same magical musical trick...
 
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The argument between Los Angeles and Atlanta

2008-06-10 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Swed in the Los Angeles Times about new music and its connections to the larger culture, "Tough times call for tougher music," has elicited a passionate defense from Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conductor Robert Spano: "Spano sticks up for the Atlanta school In defense of music that packs a lot of information per minute, Swed says: "complexity...
 
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Chronicle of April 2008

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2008-06-01 20:00:00 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4/10/08 April 9 Chen Yis From the Path of Beauty and Gyorgy Ligetis Idegen Foldon performed by Chanticleer and the Shanghai Quartet. Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. "[Chen Yi and Gyorgy Ligeti] use similar thinking to arrive at different places. Ms. Chens piece is a seven-part song...
 
Tags: stravinsky festival, five-part stravinsky festival, festival, american festival, coachella music festival, logan bentleyspoleto festival, music festival, world, world war
 
 
 
 
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Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1928-2007

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2007-12-07 12:40:52 by Alex Ross in Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
...Swed , the last of whom quotes Esa-Pekka Salonen calling Stockhausen "the rock star of my youth." ANABlog has a massive collection of links. Chris DeLaurenti of The Stranger has an excellent primer on the composer. Ljova drew my attention to a poignant aside on a Stockhausen.org page anticipating the composer's eightieth birthday next August:...
 
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Concertgebouw Returns, This Time with Mahler

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2008-02-06 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Swed, One word for the Royal Concertgebouw: superhuman ( Los Angeles Times , February 1 Steven Winn, A symphony fantastique at Davies ( San Francisco Chronicle , January 30) As a follow-up to this weekend's all-Mahler program from the National Symphony, one could not hope for better than the Royal Concertgebouw's Mahler fifth without seeming...
 
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Before You Go-Go, You Should Know:

2008-02-06 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Swed reviews Stephen Scott . (Photos Peter Maxwell Davies' latest work written in honor of Karen Aim Eliahu Inbal tapped to helm the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Alan Gilbert: "My New York Philharmonic debut program was not the kind of home-run program you might expect to see A new double bass concerto premieres in Nova Scotia Finns open...
 
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Barenboim, Levine, Maazel and...?

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2008-03-29 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Swed's LA Times review is here , with blogosphere commentary from Roger Bourland helping to fill out the picture Among the titan conductors who also perform on an instrument these days, the names I can think of are Daniel Barenboim (piano), James Levine (piano), Lorin Maazel (violin), and now Dudamel. I must be missing someone, though I can't...
 
Tags: play piano anymore, piano, gustavo dudamel, york philharmonic trumpeter, violin, violin tuesday, dudamel, los angeles philharmonic, titan conductors
 
 
 
 
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Satyagraha.

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2008-04-12 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Swed tonight: Not only has he now seen all three productions to date of Satyagraha, but he's surely among the very small number of people who have seen all of the Glass operas. Not such a surprise given who we're talking about, but impressive all the same. (Yes, I'm jealous Finally, I take great personal pride in sharing with you a Satyagraha...