Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark It’s a most improbable New York story: Broadway salutes a theater critic, of all things, by dimming its lights during prime box-office time prior to curtain. How often has that happened? No one would have been more astonished to receive this honor than its recipient, Howard Kissel, theater critic of the New […]
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
by Sedgwick Clark We’ve been in the thrall of “perfect” playing for so long that sometimes it takes a less than precise ensemble to remind us of genuine character. The Royal Danish Orchestra, under its music director Michael Schønwandt, had it in spades last week in its delightful program of native son Carl Nielsen’s strange […]
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Tags: alice tully hall, carl nielsen, Emil Telmányi, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Schønwandt, Midnight in Paris, Nila Parly, Pulcinella, royal danish orchestra, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, symphonic poem, syrinx, Tobias Durholm, Woody Allen
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