Philharmonic Opens With Somber Undertone
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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is the ultimate paradox: an expression of crowning joy from a deaf composer &#151; a melancholy misfit who at the end of his life created an epic hymn of freedom for all humanity.
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As the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra prepares for a short American tour, the orchestra shows some of the same ills as traditional orchestras everywhere and special problems that stem from the special nature of Israel.
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The sombre official end to mourning for Yasser Arafat today contrasted with a new sense of optimism in the West Asia after his death.
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The famous painting isn&#39;t exactly the type most people want in their home. The image is too grim and full of existential angst.
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Here, revealed for the first time, are some of the secret passions of the classical music critics of The New York Times â the music they listen to when they are not listening to timeless classics.
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The New York Philharmonic is paying a great deal of attention this season to the Italian avant-garde composer Luciano Berio, who died in 2003
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NEW YORK  &#151; A blaring ambulance siren and a mellow-toned cello: They hardly make perfect harmony.
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Classical music may be a last bastion of formality, but practically everyone at the New York Philharmonic calls its new music director just "Alan."
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Music directors of major orchestras donÂt usually get to name their successors, but Lorin Maazel of the New York Philharmonic has a suggestion.
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There's a ray of sunshine in all that doom and gloom.
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On Thursday at Avery Fisher Hall, James Conlon led the New York Philharmonic in its first performance of Zemlinskyâs one-act opera âA Florentine Tragedy,â based on a short play by Oscar Wilde.
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Forget Daniel Barenboim. What the New York Philharmonic needs now is a cultural leader.
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It was evident, early on in this opening piece, that Nejla Y. Yatkin is after more than choreography.
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Olympic Stadium has always had the lighting of a morgue. Stark and blindingly white, you could roll out a gurney and perform an autopsy at home plate - which is what&#39;s now in order, given there&#39;s been a needless death at The Big O.
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The New York Philharmonicâs substantive program on Friday included a lot of bustling film music by John Williams and others that few of the musicians may ever have played before.
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13 - It started poorly for Harvard, even before the game. When its marching musicians were introduced by the public address announcer -
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Thousands of mourners filed past  the open coffin of Luciano Pavarotti in the cathedral of his  Italian hometown on Friday, bidding farewell to the tenor whose  death prompted emotional tributes from around the world.