Past Articles by Brian Wise
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Spring For Music: Detroit Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall Pink Martini singer Storm Large joins Leonard Slatkin and the orchestra for Kurt Weill's satirical Seven Deadly Sins, in a program bookended by composers who straddled the turn of the last century. Slatkin says Maurice Ravel and Sergei Rachmaninov struggled with the idea of being 20th-century composers while having hearts and souls grounded in prior traditions. The orchestra performs Ravel's La valse and two lesser-known Rachmaninov works. |
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Spring For Music: National Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall Hear an evening of exciting and intriguing 20th-century Russian music — including Shostkovich, Schnittke and Shchedrin — that pays tribute to the orchestra's late and longtime leader, conductor and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. |
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Carnegie Hall Live: Dresden Staatskapelle Plays Bruckner When the venerable orchestra brings Bruckner's Eighth Symphony to New York, listeners will hear an ensemble comfortable with the composer's quirks and thrills. Hear what one critic calls a "mesmerizing experience." |
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Ensemble Matheus At Carnegie Hall Hear a top French chamber orchestra bring passionate life to operatic works by Vivaldi, Handel and the little-heard Nicola Antonio Porpora — a composer who was once Handel's rival. |
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Carnegie Hall Live: Ensemble Matheus Hear a top French chamber orchestra bring passionate life to operatic works by Vivaldi, Handel and the little-heard Nicola Antonio Porpora — a composer who was once Handel's rival. |
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Tonight At 8 PM ET: Carnegie Hall Live: Ensemble Matheus Hear a top French chamber orchestra bring passionate life to operatic works by Vivaldi, Handel and the little-heard Nicola Antonio Porpora — a composer who was once Handel's rival. |
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Live Now: Carnegie Hall Live: Ensemble Matheus Hear a top French chamber orchestra bring passionate life to operatic works by Vivaldi, Handel and the little-heard Nicola Antonio Porpora — a composer who was once Handel's rival. |
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The Philadelphia Orchestra At Carnegie Hall The Philadelphia Orchestra may be financially strapped but its famed sound still gleams. Led by its new, young music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the ensemble shows off in virtuoso works by Maurice Ravel and Dmitri Shostakovich, as well as a rarely heard concerto with an exceptional violinist. |
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Live Jan.17 At Carnegie Hall: The Philadelphia Orchestra The Philadelphia Orchestra may be financially strapped but its famed sound still gleams. Led by its new, young music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the ensemble shows off in virtuoso works by Maurice Ravel and Dmitri Shostakovich, as well as a rarely heard concerto with an exceptional violinist. |
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Gustavo Dudamel Leads The Simon Bolivar Symphony At Carnegie Hall Charismatic conductor Gustavo Dudamel brings the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela — the orchestra he's led since his teen years — to Carnegie Hall with a program of thrilling Latin American music by Carlos Chávez, Silvestre Revueltas and Julián Orbón. |
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Carnegie Hall Live: The Chicago Symphony Performs 'Carmina Burana' Join us as Carnegie Hall opens its new season with a gala performance of Carl Orff's lusty, rowdy masterpiece featuring the CSO and Music Director Riccardo Muti. |
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Carnegie Hall Live: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performs 'Carmina Burana' Hear the opening concert of Carnegie Hall's new season with a gala performance of Carl Orff's lusty, rowdy masterpiece, featuring the CSO and music director Riccardo Muti. |
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Carnegie Hall Live: The Chicago Symphony Performs 'Carmina Burana,' Oct. 3, 7 p.m. ET Join us as Carnegie Hall opens its new season with a gala performance of Carl Orff's lusty, rowdy masterpiece featuring the CSO and Music Director Riccardo Muti. |
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Bach's 'St. John Passion' At Carnegie Hall The Canadian ensemble and vocal soloists, including tenor Ian Bostridge, perform Bach's misunderstood St. John Passion. |
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The period instrument band is not afraid to stretch the performance traditions of early music, incorporating improvisatory detours, sultry Latin riffs and earthy vocals. |
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The Vienna Philharmonic At Carnegie Hall Lorin Maazel leads the revered orchestra in Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and his own 'Ring Without Words' - Wagner's 'Ring' whittled down to 70 singer-free minutes. |
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Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes At Carnegie Hall Listen to the acclaimed Norwegian pianist in a program that spans pillars of the piano literature - from Haydn to Chopin to Bartok. |
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Live Tomorrow At 8 PM ET: John Eliot Gardiner's Historical Beethoven Hear one of the world's top original instruments ensembles, the Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra, play Beethoven by the book. |
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John Eliot Gardiner's Historical Beethoven At Carnegie Hall One of the world's top original instruments ensembles, the Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra, plays Beethoven by the book. |
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Why Rehearsals Matter At Marlboro At the 60-year-old festival, the journey through rehearsal is as important as reaching the final destination when it comes to practicing a piece of music. |
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The Montreal Symphony's Evolution Of Music Hear conductor Kent Nagano, pianist Angela Hewitt and the venerable orchestra trace the arc of symphonic tradition from the Renaissance to modern times - with music by Gabrieli, Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and Webern. |
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Maria Schneider: The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's Jazz Band Composer Maria Schneider is used to writing for her own jazz band. Hear her first classical work, written for soprano Dawn Upshaw, at the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall. |
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The Oregon Symphony's Intimations Of Conflict At Carnegie Hall Hear the orchestra perform works possessed with the turbulent spirit of war, including music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Charles Ives and John Adams. |
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The Dallas Symphony's Oratorio Of Ominous Events At Carnegie Hall Commissioned for the 100th anniversary of Lyndon Baines Johnson's birth, Steven Stucky's August 4, 1964 centers on the day two key issues in Johnson's Presidency converged: the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. Hear the work's New York premiere live from Carnegie Hall. |
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The Albany Symphony's Spirituals Re-Imagined At Carnegie Hall Ten years ago, conductor David Allan Miller had a dream to hear new takes on traditional spirituals. Hear his dream come true as he and the Albany Symphony Orchestra make their Carnegie Hall debut. |
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The Toledo Symphony's Soviet Dissidents At Carnegie Hall The Ohio orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall debut with 1,400 of its fans in tow. The music includes a rarely heard symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich and a theatre piece by Andre Previn and Tom Stoppard. |
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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's 'New Brandenburgs' At Carnegie Hall The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has spearheaded a novel project designed to help bridge past and present: It commissioned six composers to write companion pieces for Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos. Hear the ensemble play all six new works as it opens the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall. |
