GEORGIA ROWE: CLASSICAL NOTES: Music director finds there's no place like home Contra Costa Times
THE YEAR 2006 has been busy for Kent Nagano. In recent months, the conductor succeeded Zubin Mehta as music director of Munich's Bavarian State Opera (Germany's largest opera house) and led his inaugural season as music director of the Montreal Symphony. Both debuts were widely acclaimed; in Montreal, church bells tolled for Nagano's opening performance Sept. 6, which was broadcast live on
Robo-music gives musicians the jitters USA Today
Virtual orchestras -- computer programs that can vary dynamics and tempo and follow the singers on stage and the music director's baton -- are changing the music world. The systems are being used widely with traveling professional Broadway shows and in a revival of Les Misrables in London's West End.
GLOBAL JAZZ: Pianist Vijay Iyer's cutting-edge music draws on the Indian rhythms of his heritage with post-bop, hip-hop Detroit Free Press
Vijay Iyer is not your garden variety jazz pianist and composer. For one thing, he's got an interdisciplinary PhD in cognitive science and music. For another, he collaborates with hip-hop and conceptual artists on multi-media works like "Still Life With Commentator," an existential critique of the 24/7 news media that was given its world premiere last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Dark, beautiful music fills Herbst Contra Costa Times
The ominous yet lyrical music of British composer Thomas Ades has made him a celebrity, at least in the classical music world. There, each of his new works -- operas, orchestral pieces -- is eagerly awaited by cognoscenti.
St. Marys students create original Christmas music The West Elgin Chronicle
Students at St. Mary’s Catholic School have produced a CD of holiday music. Directed by new music teacher Jim Slee, A Saint Mary Christmas has already sold 250 copies.
Winter songs: New holiday music from Sarah McLachlan, James Taylor, Brad Paisley, Oleta Adams and more Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Records are rated on a scale of one (awful) to five (classic) stars. It's only 10 days till Christmas Eve, so if you aren't listening to holiday music yet, what are you waiting for? Maybe for this roundup of reviews. Without further ado, here's a full stocking of 2006 Christmas CDs.
Robo-music gives musicians the jitters The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
The Venice (Fla.) Little Theater has a tiny orchestra pit, with room for only a handful of players, and a modest budget. So when it mounts a big musical like "Beauty and the Beast," it brings in an electronic ringer.
Composer's turn at piano wide-ranging San Jose Mercury News
The ominous yet lyrical music of British composer Thomas Adès has made him a celebrity the past few years, at least in the classical music world. There, each of his new works -- operas, orchestral pieces -- is eagerly awaited by the cognoscenti and heralded by critics.
Music legends come to life for holidays Seattle Times
An 11-year-old boy brings four of the world's greatest composers to life in "The Magic of Music," a 45-minute centerpiece of the Sno-King
The air this week Boston Globe
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