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Alan's Poppies and Sage, photographed by Paul Cabanis, Spring 2010.
Author Archives: Alan Rich
The Slick Road Project
Photo by J. Henry Fair IF YO-YO MA WERE TO RE-DRAW the map of this planet, its land mass would consist of a large blob with no boundary lines. He’s a supremely gifted musician of extraordinarily broad passions, this smiling, … Continue reading
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The Adams Family
There is hope for us yet. In the eight days that began with Golijov‘s St. Mark’s Passion and ended with John Adams‘ Naive and Sentimental Music, it was easy to feel good about music’s future — about the creation of … Continue reading
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“Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” at the LA Opera
The hoodoos that have bedeviled Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk almost since its premiere, performed double duty in Los Angeles this past October. As with the seesawing fortunes of the composer himself, however, the final notes were of triumph … Continue reading
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The Lady Is a Tramp
Nine years separate Dmitri Shostakovich’s start on his Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and the completion of his Sixth Symphony; hearing them both within a week at the Music Center constituted, among other pleasures, an interesting historical overview. In those nine … Continue reading
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The Prose and the Passion
Two more hearings of Osvaldo Golijov‘s La Pasion Segun San Marcos have not dimmed the slash of its colors, its power to exhilarate, to stop the breath. Last weekend’s performances, as the peak of this year‘s Eclectic Orange Festival, did … Continue reading
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Sole Possessions
Slim indeed was the turnout for Lorraine Hunt Lieberson‘s solo recital at Royce Hall last week; bountiful indeed were the rewards. She is every kind of phenomenal artist: majestic in stage manner, overpowering in her command of the shape of … Continue reading
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Commencement Exercises
A new season begins, in this land of no seasons. Three of our local orchestras sprang into action last week: two with brand-new music, one with older music of newer outlook. The week before, the much-admired Kronos Quartet brought in … Continue reading
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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA REVIEW
For the San Francisco Opera to undertake Olivier Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise – as the American stage première of the opera now 19 years old – represented an act of faith several times over: above all the faith of Pamela … Continue reading
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Most Eloquent Banalities
I left the Paris Opera, late on a cold November night in 1983, convinced of two things. One was that the opera whose world premiere I had just suffered through, Olivier Messiaen’s Saint Francois d‘Assise, had no chance whatever of … Continue reading
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Pistol-packin' Mama and the Blockbuster Redemption
SOONER OR LATER MOST OPERA COMPANIES get around to Nabucco. It has its historic place, as Verdi’s first triumph and for the “Va pensiero” chorus that became the anthem of oppressed Italy. (At the L.A. Opera the chorus was encored, … Continue reading
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