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In the crypt at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, NYC (photo credit: Oren Hope)
Prolific and popular during his short and violently-cut-short life, Italian composer Alessandro Stradella (1643–1682) may not be as familiar to lovers of Baroque music today as some of his contemporaries. A sparkling new recording of his Biblical oratorio Ester: Liberatrice del Popolo Ebreo (Esther, Liberator of the Hebrew People) may help change that. Out now on Navona Records, this release, in the words of Early Music America’s Ian Pomerantz, “should be considered the seminal recording of the work.”
By: Jon Sobel
Addiction is everywhere in America, in art and pop culture as much as in real life. Personal stories reveal the problem more vividly than statistics. Playwright Martha Pichey tells one such story in Ashes & Ink, now at the Off-Broadway AMT Theater for three weeks. Kathryn Erbe stars as Molly, a mother wrestling with chaos and guilt as her teenage son’s drug addiction threatens to drag down the new family she’s hoping to build.
From Mozart and Gershwin to Wynton Marsalis and Zhou Long, the 2024 Beijing Music Festival presented music from around the globe.
Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva brought her Chopin bona fides to Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on Tuesday night. A First Prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition 14 years ago remains prominent on her C.V. and sets expectations for listeners. This consummate keyboard artist lived up to them, offering a wide selection of Chopin masterpieces. In the second half of her concert she set up Liszt’s legendary B Minor Sonata with two intriguing short works from that composer’s later years.
Interview: Eve Blackwater of 'Brokeneck Girls: The Murder Ballad Musical,' NYC Fringe 'Best Musical' Winner
By: Jon Sobel
Zombie Blizzard: Soprano Measha Brueggergosma-Lee, Composer-Pianist Aaron Davis Set Poems of Margaret Atwood in Concert
Clarion Choir's Rachmaninoff celebration concluded with a collaborative concert featuring the Spring Cantata and the Piano Concerto No. 3.
Emily Sullivan, Andrew Moorhead in 'Loneliness Was a Pandemic'at Theaterlab (photo by Danny Bristoll)
The Junction Trio's 92Y debut was a smartly conceived program of Shostakovich, Brahms, and a funny shocker of a world premiere by John Zorn.
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