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additional thoughts on kaplan

by Charles Noble on December 23, 2008 · 20 comments

I’ve been (in between watching marathon stretches of House MD on dvd) thinking a bit more about the flap over Gilbert Kaplan conducting the New York Philharmonic.  It seems that there are two diverging views of the situation, both of which are misguided, or at least misappropriated.
Kaplan #1 is an earnest amateur, passionate about one [...]

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nytimes reviewer blogs about kaplan concert, review

by Charles Noble on December 21, 2008 · 2 comments

Steve Smith, music editor for Time Out New York and a freelance reviewer who often writes classical music reviews for the New York Times, writes about his review of the Gilbert Kaplan led performance of Mahler 2 with the New York Philharmonic here.  Interesting reading, and it shows how critical a missing sentence can be [...]

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lebrecht on kaplan flap

by Charles Noble on December 18, 2008 · 1 comment

Norman Lebrecht has weighed in with his opinion of the blog post by the New York Philharmonic’s bass second trombonist David Finlayson which expressed in no uncertain terms Finlayson’s low regard for the conducting prowess and musical fitness of amateur conductor Gilbert Kaplan.
Read the Lebrecht posting and digest your initial reaction for a bit – [...]

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classical conflict

by Charles Noble on March 28, 2008

I just perused a recent article about the Florida Orchestra and some highly-publicized comments from subscribers about the contemporary programming that is being done by music director Stefan Sanderling.
I understand that some patrons don’t care for hearing anything written after 1870 or so. Fine. But why do they complain so about hearing something [...]

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