United States Various, Aqua Net & Funyuns: Experiments in Opera / Dmitry Glivinskiy (piano & music director), New York. Available for free download at Apple Podcasts, stitcher.com or experimentsinopera.com, 7.12.2020. (RP)
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Learn with Carnegie Hall is a treasure trove of past masterclasses and sound advice
United States Learn with Carnegie Hall: Weill Institute of Music, Carnegie Hall, New York. Streaming live each Wednesday and on-demand on Carnegie Hall’s website and its Facebook and YouTube channels. (RP)
Ensemble Pi furthers the conversation on reparations through music and prose
United States Ensemble Pi, Reparations NOW!: Various composers: Airi Yoshioka (violin), Alexis Gerlach (cello), Allison Loggins-Hull (flute), Moran Katz (clarinet), Wayne Dumaine (trumpet), Bill Trigg (percussion), Idith Korman (piano & accordion), Damian Norfleet (narrator) / Trevor Weston and Raquel Acevedo Klein (conductors). The Center at West Park, New York. First streamed on 29.10.2020. (RP)
The loveliest of sounds – English lute songs performed by Kate Maroney and Adam Cockerham
United States T( )NIGHT – In Darkness Let Me Dwell: Kate Maroney (mezzo-soprano), Adam Cockerham (lute). Performed on 2.9.2020 at Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, New York, and viewed on tenet.nyc on 22.10.2020. (RP)
Young Concert Artists announces 2020 events
Young Concert Artists announces 60th anniversary season
The 60th anniversary season of the Young Concert Artists opens on 21 October with a concert streaming live from Merkin Hall that will feature performances by an array of artists representing YCA’s remarkable history. The program will include solo and chamber works by Ravel, Bach, Handel and Higdon, as well as the world premiere of a partita for solo violin by YCA Composer Chris Rogerson. (Rogerson is represented by Young Concert Artists, Inc., and served as YCA Composer-in-Residence from 2010-2012. In 2016, he joined the Musical Studies Faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.)
François Girard’s static, drab, and unevenly cast Met Der fliegende Holländer
United States Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Valery Gergiev (conductor). Performance recorded on 10.3.2020 (directed by Gary Halvorson) and reviewed as Met Opera on Demand. (JPr)
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Carnegie Hall at 130 – a digital celebration of the past, present and future
United States Carnegie Hall Opening Night 130th Anniversary Season – A Virtual Gala Celebration: Carnegie Hall, NY. Live stream viewed on 7.10.2020. (RP)
‘Musical Passports’ – a streamed concert with Tessa Lark and Andrew Armstrong from Cal Performances
United States Bartók, Ysaÿe, Schubert, Grieg, Ravel, Tessa Lark (violin) and Andrew Armstrong (piano): Recorded at New York’s Merkin Hall for Cal Performances, 1.10.2020. (HS)
