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The effect of masks on a serious music concert
Yesterday afternoon, for the first time in more than a year and half, I went to Lincoln Center for a chamber music concert at Alice Tully Hall. Outside the hall, there was a short line where friendly Lincoln Center people … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Tully Hall, Brahms, Calidore String Quartet, chamber music, Lincoln Center, masks, Nicky Swett, pandemic masks, Puccini, Shostakovich, Webern
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News from 1882 to 1883, thanks to Brahms
I was at the New York Philharmonic the other night for a Beethoven piano concerto and a Brahms symphony. (You too can hear the concert, at nyphil.org, YouTube and Facebook–or so a program footnote informs me.) The program notes were … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Brahms, New York Philharmonic
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