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Year: 2006
ASHLEY: Perfect Lives; Celestial Excursions; Foreign Experiences
Robert Ashley has the uncanny ability to sprinkle diamonds amidst great swaths of apparently trivial and quotidian detritus–diamonds that trigger the nervous system in an intensely stimulating fashion.
Paris’s Art-Deco Salle Pleyel Opens After Four-Year Restoration
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aL1Yp5cJKYBI&refer=muse
Un ballo in maschera, San Francisco
(Photo by Terrence McCarthy) By Allan Ulrich [Financial Times, 11 September 2006] Regime change in operatic duchies is never smooth, but need it always look and sound so wrenching? The…
BEETHOVEN: Overtures
BRUCKNER: Symphony no. 4
The later G¸nter Wand was a remarkable interpreter of Bruckner’s music, as is demonstrated in this live recording from the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
Tragic Love in a Garret, on the Brink of World War I
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/arts/music/11bohe.html
Joshua Bell’s Good Taste
Sony Records occasionally still sends the odd CD to reviewers hoping they will give it notice.
Opera in Paris
What a difference a year makes. Music lovers who rely on their memories to find the right places to hear music in Paris could be for a surprise if they do not check beforehand what France has now to offer.