First Nights: Shostakovich News

 
Wall Street Journal
The Fab-Formative Years
Wall Street Journal
It was in Hamburg, he notes, that the Beatles made their first studio recordings (under the supervision of the German producer Bert "Strangers in the Night" Kaempfert). It was there that the band began to experiment with clothes and hairstyles in the ...


 
On the Town: Where to go, what to do
San Francisco Chronicle
Want to get out and make a night of it? Here are a few tips from The Chronicle's Datebook staff on where to go and what to do around the Bay Area. Take your pick: Check out our mini-review of a recommended restaurant to try; a new movie to see; ...


 
Plain Dealer
Stepping out of the ensemble: Opera singers Brewer, Saks plan solo recitals ...
Plain Dealer
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer Courtesy of the Art Song FestivalHere is the first page of Fernando Obradors' song "Al amor," which soprano Christine Brewer will sing during her recital Tuesday at the Art Song Festival at Baldwin-Wallace College.


 
The Classical Music Network
ConcertoNet
Not a soul was pleading for money back after the report that Yefim Bronfman had canceled his performance of the Brahms Second with the Cleveland Orchestra last night. After all, the same composer would be represented , and Gil Shaham was certainly, ...

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Baltimore Sun
Marin Alsop and the BSO investigate Shostakovich's Seventh
Washington Examiner
Friday night at Strathmore, Music director Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra present their Off the Cuff series finale by examining Shostakovich's resistance to Nazi aggression through his powerful Symphony No. 7, "Leningrad," written in ...
Magnetic performances from Marin Alsop, Leon Fleisher, Baltimore SymphonyBaltimore Sun (blog)

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Jaap van Zweden offers beauty — and excitement — with the CSO
Chicago Sun-Times
If there was nothing new or innovative in the first half, there was much beauty, starting with a wonderfully paced and led opener of Shostakovich's so-called Chamber Symphony for Strings in C Minor, Op. 110a (actually a 1967 string orchestra ...

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Plain Dealer (blog)
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra wraps up season with knockout finale
Plain Dealer (blog)
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra embarks on its first international tour next month, and if Sunday night's concert is any indication, audiences in Prague, Czech Republic, and Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, will certainly be knocked out by the ...