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alice tulley reborn at lincoln center

by Charles Noble on January 30, 2009

The newly renovated Alice Tully Hall – Photo: Robert Polidori
Alice Tully Hall, long reviled for its poor public spaces and horribly dry acoustics, has just undergone a $159 million renovation, and the initial response from both architecture critics and the musician tenants of the hall is very good.  The hall’s main tenant is the Chamber [...]

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NY Times: Muti wrong for New York

by Charles Noble on May 18, 2008

Anthony Tommasini, writing in today’s New York Times, is as bemused as I am by the hand-wringing from the players of the New York Philharmonic on not getting Riccardo Muti as their new music director:

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thomas adés nytimes profile

by Charles Noble on March 23, 2008

G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times
British composer phenom Thomas Adés (age 37) is presenting a concert of his music at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group on Friday, March 29th. The New York Times’ Vivien Schweitzer writes this article about his background and ethos in today’s edition of the [...]

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favorite intermissions

by Charles Noble on January 5, 2008 · 1 comment

This is just fascinating, and I’m ashamed that I’ve only just discovered this! “This” is a CD of composer and “sound artist” Christopher DeLaurenti which consists of surreptitiously recorded audio tracks from intermissions of orchestral concerts around the U.S.

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letters in response to Seattle NYTimes article

by Charles Noble on December 29, 2007 · 1 comment

In the upcoming Sunday edition of the New York Times, several letters are printed in the Arts section – you can read the complete letters (as printed) here.
Here are some of the best parts of some of them:

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