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Hungarian Echoes (or is that someone shouting?)

by Sharon Mizrahi on April 6, 2011

in Music,Teen Reviews,TRaC

Lincoln Center is a safe place to spend St. Patrick's Day in NYC, right?

New Yorkers have a knack for infusing everything with an overdose of cynicism. We convolute Valentine’s Day into a greeting card company scam; we twist Thanksgiving into an all-you-can-eat buffet. And we take no greater jaded creative license than in the case of Saint Patrick’s Day. The yearly spectacle takes New York City by a storm: half-asleep subway riders wear sequined shamrock headbands; slurred, muddled song lyrics become the sidewalk soundtrack; crowds of tipsy folks shout obscenities in broad daylight, leaning on one another to keep from toppling over. Amid the neon-green lit taverns and shamrock-sporting restaurant signs, Avery Fisher Hall stands strong, classy, and composed. What better place to sit out the Saint Patrick’s Day festivities than in the Upper West Side’s sleek classical music giant? [click to continue…]

Tagged as: Avery Fisher Hall, Crowd noise, Lincoln Center, Music Teen Reviewers and Critics, New York Philharmonic

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Mahler’s Sixth Symphony Concert

by Cleo Nevakivi-Callanan on October 12, 2010

in Music,Teen Reviews

When I finally walked out of Avery Fisher Hall, my hands were shaking.  It wasn’t the cold, I knew, nor the sheer grandiose of the Lincoln Center Plaza.  Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony still rang out around me, and the woodwind passages played on constant loop inside my head.  The concert program I saw, featuring the New York Philharmonic, was only performed for three days, between September 29 and October 1, 2010.  But the music, I knew, would haunt me for much longer.

A violinist myself, I have performed many of Mahler’s orchestral works, but I was surprised to find out that I had never heard his sixth symphony.  It began in a near-militaristic march, which provided little foreshadowing for Mahler’s flowing, emotional approach to the rest of the work.   [click to continue…]

Tagged as: Alan Gilbert, Avery Fisher Hall, Gustav Mahler, New York Philharmonic, Sixth Symphony

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A Beast at Avery Fisher Hall

by Danny Ovryn on October 29, 2009

in Music

Seeing the New York Philharmonic perform a Brahms Violin Concerto and Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande in the same night was an amazing classical music experience. The orchestra turned into a single beast, consisting of the contiguous musicians as the body and Gilbert and first violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman forming the head.
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Tagged as: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York Philharmonic

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