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By Mark Swed |
October 31, 2008
When artist Ann Hamilton completed building what she called an acoustic tower in Sonoma County last year, Meredith Monk was on hand for the inauguration.
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By Mark Swed |
October 30, 2008
Leon Botstein is a can-do conductor eager to get a bright sound out of almost any orchestra, even the moody Jerusalem Symphony.
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By Mark Swed |
October 28, 2008
Saturday morning, hyperbolic weather reporters here barked out warnings of heavy wind and drenching rain all day.
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Entertainment |
By Mark Swed |
October 26, 2008
Wotan built a house he couldn’t afford.
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By Mark Swed |
October 26, 2008
Leon Botstein has been president of Bard College here, 100 miles up the Hudson from New York City, since 1975.
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By Mark Swed |
October 23, 2008
The Esa-Pekka Salonen piece “Stockholm Diary” is the one that somehow got away.
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By Mark Swed |
October 20, 2008
The performance history of Bach on the piano is a back-and-forth business.
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By Mark Swed |
October 20, 2008
A Lou Harrison craze has appeared frustratingly just around the corner ever since this poster boy for gorgeous nonconformist California music died in 2003.
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By Mark Swed |
October 17, 2008
András Schiff is a compact man with a large head.
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Entertainment |
By Mark Swed |
October 13, 2008
Make a poet a diplomat and good may come of it.
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