I’ve made mention of recent reviews of the American Symphony Orchestra, etc., here’s the rest of what I’ve been up to this winter/spring:
Q&As
- Sondra Radvanovsky on pranks, Lady Gaga and Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s fist-sized devil tattoo
- Thomas Hampson on (the ghost of) Stephen Foster, being a scholar-in-residence and singing in Hebrew
- Piotr Anderszewski on Poland’s No. 2 composer and Yuja Wang
Reviews
- Valery Gergiev, the Mariinsky Orchestra and a magnum-sized Les Troyens at Carnegie Hall
- The Kronos Quartet in an all-Terry Riley program at Zankel Hall
- The bombastic Brooklyn Rider getting us high at Angel Orensanz
- There will be blood: Hamlet at the Met and Madama Butterfly at City Opera
- Levantine indulgence with Gaida at (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Gene Wilder-maned maestro Jeffrey Kahane at the New York Philharmonic
- City Opera’s top-shelf Partenope revival
- The NY Phil’s secont Contact! in the same 24-hour period as Chamber Music Society’s Ravel’s World
Live Previews and Features
- David Finckel and Wu Han (CD review wrapped up in a live preview)
- BAM Opera Festival: Now with live nude opera singers
- Jonas Kaufmann, tortured artist
- Louis Andriessen’s La Commedia at Carnegie Hall
- Incompetent pianist Jeremy Denk
- Emerson String Quartet’s Bohemian rhapsody at Lincoln Center
