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Critics' Choice: Best of 2020; Over 375 reviews

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Dallas Symphony's & Minnesota Orchestra's Response to Covid-19; Christmas Collections

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Over 300 reviews; no concert and opera reviews due to Covid-19

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Opera: Flying Dutchman, Jacqueline; The Sweet Land; Beethoven's Leonore; Tafelmusik

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Danish Quartet's Complete Beethoven; L.A. Opera & Philharmonic; Creative Ventures in San Francisco; Patricia Kopatchinskaya; Dallas Symphony; Ying and Schumann Quartets

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LA Philharmonic; Boston records Shostakovich; ST. Louis Symphony; White Light Festival; Musical Tour thru China

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Critics Choice 2019; 3 Maestros in LA; Porgy & Bess; Takacs Qt; San Francisco Symphony & Opera

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Festivals: Tanglewood, IKIF, Gateways; Opera: Glyndebourne, Glimmerglass, Santa Fe, Saratoga, Cincinnati

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Festivals: Spoleto USA 2019, Boston Early Music, Ojai, Kanasawa; Morlot’s Farewell; Hanns Eisler; Music of Conscience; NY City Opera’s Pride Initiative

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Opera: Frankfurt, Paris, Minneapolis; Hong Kong Arts Festival; Elias & Ying Quartets; Dessner's Tryptych; Danielpour's Passion of Yeshua

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Overview: Rachmaninoff; LA Phil; NY Phil; Singapore Symphony; Canadian Opera; Utah records Berlioz

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Overview: Haydn; Mefistofele, Otello & Traviata at the Met; Conductors: Noseda, Barenboim, MTT; Latvian Choir; Hungarian State Opera & Ballet; Taiwan Philharmonic

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Best of 2018; Index to 2018 Reviews; Opera: Philadelphia O 18 Festival, Marnie, Hadrian, Samson & Delilah; Indy Violin Competition

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Festivals: Tanglewood, Cabrillo, Rockport; Opera: Bayreuth, Santa Fe, Glimmerglass; Intl Keyboard Festival; BBC Proms; Japan

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Music Directors Depart Major Orchestras; St. Louis opera; Montreal International Music Competition; Spoleto & Ojai Festivals

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Festivals: Shift & New Creations; Seattle & Utah Symphonies; Violins of Hope in Nashville; Taiwan Philharmonic

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Bernstein Centennial; Operas: Fellow Travelers, Beatrice & Benedict; L.A. Philharmonic; Dallas Symphony; Cleveland Orchestra

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White Light Festival; Christmas Cheer 2017; Current's Missing; Dello Joio's Joan of Arc; North Carolina Opera; Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

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Philadelphia Opera; Renee Fleming; Martha Argerich; Gardiner's Monteverdi 450; Canada's 150th in Music; China NCPA Tours U.S.; Best of 2017; Index to 2017 reviews

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Overview: Operetta II; Festivals: Tanglewood, Glimmerglass, Cabrillo, Menlo & more; OPera: Saratoga, Santa Fe, Des Moines, Ohio Light & more

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Overview: Operetta I; Competitions: Van Cliburn, Alieva, Osaka Chamber Music; Festivals: Spoleto, Ojai, Boston Early Music; Goodbyes in NY, LA, and Washington DC; Elgar's Apostles; Glass's Trial; Gordon's Grapes of Wrath

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Somers's Louis Riel; Kernis Violin Concerto; Two Takes on Salonen; Taiwan Phil tours Europe; Festivals: SHIFT at Kennedy Center and LA Phil's Reykjavik

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Elbphilharmonie Opens; John Adams 70th; Glass at 80; Festival: Weill in LA and Shostakovich in Seattle; Bruckner and La Serenissima at Carnegie Hall

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Minimalists at 80; Berlin Philharmonic in Toronto; Politics & Music at Teatro Colon; Prokofieff Ballets

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Critics' Choice 2016; Index 2016; Enesco and Banff Competitions; Rattle's New York Trifecta

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California Music Festivals; Saratoga Opera & Orchestra; Santa Fe Opera; New Works by Ades, Adolphe, MacMillan

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Festivals: Spoleto, Seattle's Tuning Up, Albany's American, NY Phil Biennial, Cincinnati May Festival; Operas: The Shining, Shalimar, Fellow Travellers, Anatomy Theater

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Overview: Liszt; Vancouver Schubertiad; Fort Worth & Sarasota Operas; Cincinnati's MusicNow; Music from Japan in NY

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Summer Festivals 2016; Minnesota Composer Institute; Fleming in Stockholm; Int'l Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico

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Jewish Music with Kissin; Music in Taiwan; Toronto Opera in Paris; Premieres at Dalles Opera

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Critics Choice 2015; Festivals in Berlin, Canada, Italy; Opera from New York, Toronto, Salzburg; Houston, Buffalo and Cleveland Orchestras

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Opera from Santa Fe, Saratoga, Salzburg, & Bard; Oregon’s Britt Festival; Christmas Music

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Operas in St Louis, Boston, San Francisco, Spoleto USA; Chamber Music in Osaka, Montreal

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Ordway and other halls, Manchurian Candidate, Sibelius Sesquicentennial, Music Down Under, Bogota Festival

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Overview: The Great American Symphony; 2015 Summer Festivals Guide; Conductor Editions: Boulez, Dorati, Maazel

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Opera in Boston, Boston’s New Music Director, Montreal’s Bach Festival, Andre Previn Premieres, Hurricane Mama’s Birthday, The Art of Music Criticism

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Operas, Festivals, and Music Competitions from around the world

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Festivals and Christmas Music

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Operas, Festivals, and Music Competitions from around the world

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Overview: Sibelius

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Ax's "Brahms & Beyond" with Von Otter & Ma, L.A. Phil-Bolivar's Tchaikovsky Festival, Rattle, Zorn, & Carnegie Commission, Weinberg x 2: Chamber and Song, Hilliard Ensemble's NY Farewell, Matsuev & Trifonov at Carnegie Hall; Operas: Wuorinen: Brokeback Mountain, Weinberg: The Passenger, Ellington: Queenie Pie, Piazzolla: Maria of Buenos Aires, Billy Budd at L.A. and BAM, Machover: Death & the Powers, Borodin: Prince Igor at Met, Rimsky-Korsakov: Mozart & Salieri, Handel: Armida--2 Productions

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Conlon Celebrates Britten in L.A., Schiff's Goldberg, Diabelli, & Partitas, Kronos Quartet's 40th Anniversary, Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, Philadelphia Orchestra's Commissions, Langrée's Opening Cincinnati Concerts, Taiwan Philharmonia's Tour; World Premieres: Daughterty: Violin Concerto, Auerbach: String Quartet No. 8; Operas: Miami: Mourning Becomes Electra, Paris: Written on Skin, Zurich: Faust

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Levine & Gergiev Return to Met, 4 Premieres for Disney’s 10th Year, New Music Directors in Boston & Houston, Ft Worth Symphony Embraces the World, Mariinksy Orchestra: 3 at Carnegie Hall, St Lawrence, Tetzlaff, Attacca Quartets, Banff String Quartet Competition, Toronto Opera Update, Organ Since 1940; New Works & Premieres: Picker: Dolores Claiborne, Muhly: Two Boys, Bryer: Marilyn Forever, Turnage: Anna Nicole, John Adams: Saxophone Concerto

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A Festival of Festivals: Seattle's Ring Cycle, Bayreuth's Ring Cycle, Salzburg Festival, Cabrillo Festival,Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest Festival, Madison Early Music Festival, Tanglewood's Contemporary Festival

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Festivals: Boston Early Music, Spring for Music, Spoleto, Ft Worth Opera, Ojai; Competitions: Cliburn, Montreal

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Dudamel & LAPO in NYC, Dresden State Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, New York Phil's "Bach Variations", Schiff in Bach's, French & English Suites, Toronto Symphony's "New Creations", Jerusalem Quartet's Shostakovich Cycle, William Christie a la, Francaise at BAM, Verdi & Floyd at Sarasota Opera, New Opera House in Linz, Toyko Orchestras, Part 2

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Summer Festival Guide, East-Western Divan Orchestra at Carnegie, Stanford's New Bing Concert Hall, Los Angeles Celebrates, Peter Eötvös, Ades's Powder Her Face

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Carnegie's Voices from Venezuela, Otello & Tempest: Live vs. HD, Gardiner's Beethoven's 9th & Missa Solemnis, Christmas with Bach & Berlioz, Nancarrow's 100th, Lutoslawski's 100th, Japan's Orchestras Part 2, Teatro Colon's Mini-Ring

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Overview: Ballet, Glimmerglass Festival, World Choir Games, Top 25 Critics' Choice, Tanglewood @ 75

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Festivals: Aston, Magna, Dresden Music, Montreal Chamber Music, Spring for Music. Operas: Chin's Alice in Wonderland, Spoleto's Kepler and Peony Pavillion, Luminato's Einstein on the Beach

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Overview: Mahler, American Mavericks at Carnegie Hall

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Summer Festivals

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Overview: Britten

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No Overview

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No Overview, Christmas Music

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Overview: Chopin

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Overview: Overtures Part III

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Overview: Overtures Part II

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Overview: Overtures Part I

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Lieberson & Harbison Premieres, Rarities at the Met

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Gateway to Summer Music

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Overview: English Orchestral

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Overview: Shostakovich Symphonies

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Early Summer Festivals

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Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Last Stand, West Side Story Indeed, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Los Angeles Opera

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Piano Trios Overview, Edging Toward Salonen's L.A. Farewell, Juilliard's Focus! on Adams, Five Orchestras in Four Weeks

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Overview: Cello, The Met vs The Movies, From Harrison to Kurtag, Celebrating Messiaen's 100th

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San Francisco Opera, Critics' Choice, EMPAC Inaugural Concert

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Overview: Mendelssohn, Gershwin at Bard, Seattle's Wagner Competition, Edinburgh Festival

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Berkeley Early Music festival, Gilmore Festival, Fez Festival. Ft Worth Opera; The Future of the CD

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Joan Tower at 70, Sarasota Opera, Sao Paulo, William Kraft; What to Do With Your Old LPs

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Overview: Mozart Concertos; Elliott Carter at 100, American Voices, David Robertson, Lowell Liebermann

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Overview: French & German Operas; Canadian Bach Festivals, The Boston Scene, Zarathustra in Asia, Portland Baroque

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Critics’ Choice:Top picks of 2007, Philip Glass Extravaganza, Philip Glass at 70, Marin Alsop, International Youth Orchestra Festival, Grieg Centennial

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Overview: American Music; Opera in Cleveland, Des Moines, Santa Fe, Bavaria; Marlboro, Banff Quartet Competition

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Music under Stalin, Bethlehem Bach Festival, Berkeley Edge Fest, Royal Festival Hall makeover

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Overview: American Symphonies; 13 American Orchestras, Anna Karenina, Bolcom in Minnesota

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Overview: Berlioz; James Gaffigan, Lady Macbeth in Toronto, Round Top, Grapes of Wrath

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Where to Buy Records and Videos, Composer Institute, Gubaidulina, Opera in Bangkok, Dudamel & Nezet-Seguin

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5 New Halls, Toronto's new opera house, Singapore, Steve Reich; Critics' Choice 2006

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Overview: Beethoven Quartets; New Hall in Nashville, Indianapolis Violin Competition, new Beethoven piece, Great Wall of China Academy

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Overview: Brahms; Summer Festivals, St Lawrence Qt, Emerson Qt Shostakovich

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Gilmore Festival, Marcel Tyberg, Ian Bostridge, Tucson Chamber Music, John Williams, David Russell

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Overview: Bruckner; Rouse ballet, Mozart Birthday, Rattle in Berlin, N Carolina Symphony

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Overview: Shostakovich other music; Dresden's Frauenkirche, Patricia Racette, Meredith Monk Marathon

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Overview: Woodwinds; Erich Kunzel, Bard Festival, Seattle Ring, Santa Fe, Glimmerglass

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Overview: Brass; Buffalo Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, St Louis Opera, Oregon Bach Festival

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James Conlon, Chicago Lyric Ring, Milwaukee Symphony, End of the Affair

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Overview: R Strauss; William Kapell, NJ Symphony, Dresden Strauss Festival

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The Mahler Project; Barbra Frittolli; Bolcom Premiere, Madrid & Hamburg operas

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Summer Festivals Reviewed

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Overview: Schumann; May Festival; Spoleto Festival, Bach in Leipzig, Toronto Ring

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Overview: Mozart Symphonies; Seattle’s “Green” Ring; The Banff Center; Travelling the Silk Road

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Overview: Music since 1975; Bach Bethlehem Festival; The 25th Schubertiad in Austria; Music in Australia; How will record stores survive?

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Overview: Mahler; Jane Glover; Julius Rudel at 80; Rheinberger Revisited

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Overview: Stravinsky; Kent Nagano, Steven Isserlis, Ying Quartet; Entremont in Santo Domingo; CD Corrosion: More News and Updated Lists

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Overview: Bartok; Ben Heppner, Bobby McFerrin; Lopez-Cobos Leaves; Perahia, Schiff and the Goldbergs

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Overview: Tchaikovsky; Talks with Pamela Frank, Thomas Buckner; Raymond Leppard departs; Blanche Moyse at 91; Critics’ Choice 2000; Discs on the Internet

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Overview: Choral MasterpiecesDaniel Barenboim: A Career Survey; Lauren Flanigan; Current Orchestral Repertory; Mahler’s 10th: How it was written and completed

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; Overview: Italian Opera; MTT’s Mavericks; Bartok in Austin; Music in Bergen

July/August 2000 – $2.00 | Overview: English Symphonies; John Crosby, Leon Botstein, Gustav Meier; What’s Wrong with Today’s Operas?; Verdi’s Alzira in Florida

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; Overview: Verdi; Revueltas Revived; Frank Zappa; A Kurt Weill premiere

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Overview: Saint-Saens; Dorothy Delay; Alagna & Gheorghiu; Hitchcock’s use of music; Noel Coward Centenary; more on CD Bronzing; Cataloguing Software

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Overview: Ravel & DebusssyMilwaukee Symphony under Delfs; Jaime Laredo; Operas by Carter, Bolcom

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Overview: French Favorites; Whither Classical Music?; Decent Recent Music; Graham Johnson records all the Schubert songs; Eugene Ormany Revisited

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Overview: Program Music & Loose Ends; Library of Congress concerts on Bridge Records; A Delius World Premiere; Jose Cura;

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Overview: Chopin; Isaac Stern and Germany; David Diamond at 84; Music in Cape Town

November/December 1998 – $2.00
Overview: Cello Concertos; An Ives Premiere; Amy Beach Considered; Augusta Read Thomas

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Overview: Dvorak; Talks with Renee Fleming, Andras Schiff; Bass Hall opens in Ft Worth; 125th May Festival

July/August 1998 – $2.00
Overview: Benjamin Britten; Chamber Music: Does it have a future?; Christopher Rouse; Celibidache Profile; CD Bronze Corrosion update

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Overview: Historic Conductors; State of the Orchestras: Montreal; Leif Ove Andsnes; Paul Robeson Remembered

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Overview: Film Music; Colin Davis on Sibelius; Talks with Catherine Malfitano, Murray Perahia; Elgar’s Symphony 3 in London

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Overview: Favorite String Quartets; Van Cliburn Competition #10; Peter Oundjian; A Word from Erich Leinsdorf

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Overview: Bach; Acoustics with Michael Jaffe; Sviatislav Richter, Jeffrey Tate; Music in Macau; CD Bronzing Disease

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Overview: Bruckner; Round Top; Ojai’s 50th Year; Eliot Fisk

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Overview: Favorite Violin Concertos; Leslie Howard tackles Liszt; A&R: Who decides?; The Sibelius Violin Competition

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Overview: French & German Opera; State of the Orchestras: Rochester; Talks with Cecilia Bartoli, Julian Bream; Robert Shaw at 80;

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Overview: Ballet Music; State of the Orchestras: New Jersey; Earl Wild at 80; Eve Queler and her Opera Orchestra;

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Overview: American Composers Pierre Boulez at 70; Ralf Gothoni; Broadway Revivals

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Overview: Beethoven Symphonies and Concertos; State of the Orchestras: Indianapolis; A talk with John Elliot Gardiner; Israel’s New Opera House

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Overview: Berlioz; State of the Orchestras: Atlanta; The Unknown Liszt; Calgary Organ Competition