Claudio Abbado’s Grand Tour with his Mozart Orchestra
by Giuseppe PennisiMusic is the best medicine to cure cancer according to Maestro Claudio Abbado. Doctors removed much of his stomach and he can only…
Browsing: Concert Reviews
Strauss’s Don Quixote Brought to Life by Bay and Austin Symphony
by Paul E. RobinsonWhat a revolutionary idea it was to provide surtitles (“translated or transcribed lyrics/dialogue projected above a stage or displayed on a screen”)…
Pressler at Pollack
By Hannah Rahimi and Kali HalapuaThe 86 year-old Menahem Pressler appeared last night at Pollack Hall before a packed house of appreciative musicians and music…
Rach 3 Rocks with Nissman and the Austin Symphony!
by Paul E. RobinsonLast week, at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony presented an all-Russian program: Rachmaninov’s Vocalise,…
Two Different Productions of Elektra Enthuse Italian Provincial Opera Houses
by Giuseppe PennisiGenerally, Strauss-Hofmannsthal’s “tragedy for music” Elektra is normally performed in comparatively small opera houses in Germany and in a few Central European countries. Most administrators…
Donizetti’s Don Pasquale Delicious in Dallas’ New Winspear Opera House
by Paul E. Robinson The Dallas Opera has a long and illustrious history. It was founded in 1957 and its first presentations featured the legendary…
The Odd Couple: Britten and Shostakovich Superb Match Under van Zweden & DSO
by Paul E. RobinsonThere are plenty of recordings of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 Op. 60 (Leningrad), but one rarely gets a chance to hear it…
Pianist Anton Kuerti’s Beethoven Mesmerizes UT Austin Audience
by Paul E. RobinsonAnton Kuerti arrived in Canada in 1965, and Toronto has been his home base ever since. In that span of 45 years,…
