Cosmic Burst Cafe: October 2012

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Nels Andrews First Spin, Lera Lynn, Conor Oberst & Jenny Lewis, Taylor Swift, and more

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First Aid Kit live in Seattle, by Kirk Stauffer [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3uJzUHSBEV4ySgcMq_D1Wr4yE_Y9gG536YHWWWOzHzYYOvmO2mD00g6ih8IVnD1cQjxTatQZFv3dAChn4fux_rLVU1bf4TCrJPYMilxO_VoXs1bdCcAf0tiGleeuDc2MtkejQI6s8NKV38ueu3w539fyDk922r78ITzjdFrlPpSj0Wd6FR1EYpkl7CfrN77sEA=]
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Notes from ND

No Depression - the magazine - went out of print in 2008, and we took to the web
in our current "new media" format a few months later. It's hard to believe it's
only been four years since the mag went away, especially since so many other magazines
have folded since then. While plenty of great magazines are still printing on paper,
those which are geared especially to rootsy acoustic music are fewer and farther
between. Which magazines are you reading these days? Do you see any harm in getting
articles and recommendations from the internet? How has this shift altered the way
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in the forum or simply keep reading for some highlights from the past week...
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Bringing the write stuff to Nashville: An interview with Lera Lynn

by Michael Bialas

Lera Lynn has a penchant for writing, though it might not be what one would expect
from an Americana artist who was born in Houston, grew up listening to George Jones,
Ray Price and Conway Twitty, and trades text messages with R.E.M.'s Mike Mills.
Encouraged by her Southern parents to go to college and get a degree, Lynn did just
that at age 19, enrolling at the University of Georgia, where she majored in anthropology.
"I remember my dad saying, 'What? Anthropology? Why? Study business'"... More [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3tPOa9UUTcql7zMlqK4WuoKDLMbUnBFEbqLg4POim_olqpT2P5rXAruXD2-3wON4rSXKnUm9WO-H5VebQ2DS0XRy0Sjuy03nXWjXQNHx1P1lg4jdmrCWUyY52Uw3HiIGn9rGIUZ_BZPUYHAFHSc4JUqppq7fAnYlB9xJMVN3S432VYJJeK9SmznplRvuTch806Y7BAThRtkF2Cu6Mq4wJT021FVABJkYEg=]
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To love and be loved - Conor Oberst and Jenny Lewis's California tour

by

Shauna C. Keddy

We all have that band that has saved us from our painful years of growing up and
finding out how to make sense of the world, and of ourselves. For many kids born
in the 80's or 90's, we feel we survived our teen angst largely due to one individual--
Conor Oberst. The Nebraska singer-songwriter released ten full length albums in
the past ten years and... More [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3vGc4JNPP3kyV0cHkP_hROuu--6mZpU37anvzOHgq2aSw9j-hCJyxLqElZ85IAvzTV8pH40WSpWkeRNE-sL61t23DCmteteKgFf80QAM2D5NBhXJaEDQy9UAzHA8-KTfnyujQk8twxSiLHP6hJzW-ddzwNIb8eIi01Dc42qNHcgJPzjyhAnidz3coGl7Nz6eBJz1IgyruLoFRpEuooUnLriy0ty0ev4WqU=]
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Who cares if Taylor Swift is a feminist?

by Gillian Turnbull

Not many of her fans, I imagine. I read this article the other day, one of many
that lampoon Swift for her unimaginative lyrics, her non-response to the idea that
her songs empower girls, and her general cuteness, richness, and no-fair-how-come-I'm-not-her
effect on people who like to hate her and her music. Hm. My first reaction was:
back off. Who cares?... More [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3uuvKiXBS06Rf22xGKeX2rqCSdXoaFjK40xUktzz8GmNE_hlbjbjk1WOxdUdj4E2P1mDJil0Nj20ML46CPoFXgGZoXERRe3m1xiILXxD1nzIlPXbqfb_3yv8nZyu3HlFasRfHKZ_bkB1K98_DYCHTTSaApT8oZvmUYudxAk0Dofm7k2ketxTajEC0VV2UwU0Bc=]
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Review of Gary Clark, Jr. - 'Blak & Blu'

by Justin Wesley

If you haven't heard the hype, Gary Clark Jr., an Austin native and esteemed, veteran
bluesman at the young age of 28, is at the front of the line as the heir to Jimi
Hendrix, and he has won gushing praise from the likes of The New York Times, Rolling
Stone, Spin, the Austin Music Awards and countless other outlets. Seeing Gary Clark
Jr. play a set at... More [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3vv1K4HMws9AgFqFksP-ruOzKPZHrxYV6VtUU8mGI-GVQbGNaE1QD4DfBvz2dqe-YhT-MOQDxmqaFFWZEiwf5WJMQGX9AKOZFyZKTWCMxRl8Bkd0_Wkh1oQg7t9zzQ2zm_jfP4nA_uDQfx1DqFpeGv9I2w9Mym-sJ82pWZAaUmrXe1iEX2roqIX]
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First Spin
Nels Andrews - 'Scrimshaw'
by Kim Ruehl

Brooklyn-based folksinger Nels Andrews has been slowly but surely building a remarkable
career playing the role of the story-singing troubadour. Since earning the coveted
New Folk title at 2002's Kerrville Folk Festival (held in other years by Nanci Griffith
and Slaid Cleaves, among others), Andrews has released a handful of studio albums
and EPs.He's collaborated with AJ Roach, held an apprenticeship with Washboard Williams,
and been produced by... More [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3vb9P7IBq7k0-PG3Gmw_01NO-xEXSkshTpoLslGgNQFRILimNjlXRJ7pLH5dyQqSzICJtHhZBRV1KMJym0IzZLI5ZtNE_JxpLj8RvTe3JbExWJGaUvJ9s7QRD1YW0O3z4nrYkR2niydXLAvN_qxZqnS5gHRjASdw4rKt4RHV4TILw==]
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From the Archives
Issue #63: May-June 2006 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3t_9fN-2ibt3XG7aFchgafAWXpGkZbJ7soLOCyHQ4VXRLvtbEak4KT5vDgopqvUCFW2xp1uzfbRKZ50tijbtOhtLZb6XK5qGUAeCtbzZo3STUEBet9bmKLCXGTFB6wAdvQ9Ik9TOn4e1A==]

Cassandra Wilson - Beyond the blues

by Lloyd Sachs

"You can't continue to do the same songbook over and over. You have to innovate.
I always felt that's what I wanted to do - that and create a signature style or
sound no one can say is derivative." Cassandra Wilson laughs, her lustrous dark
tones unable not to make music. I had asked what it was like recording her 2002
album Belly Of The Sun in Mississippi - in Clarksdale, 150 miles to the north of
her hometown of Jackson. "Have you ever been to Mississippi in the summer?" she
replies, nudgingly, rightly... More [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3uFwEhRw6mvidvP6SG2MFvubS7eHUh0hUkCrhooPsc9e0VbO7QMaBM6oYlTsJvl8s2vsWKjc-pqKMKYgr2Xr2S4r7bdLun-hRT-_SvbcScKIfcEG7LFzMW4OM2AAGX0JqdqYU0UvZ_AAN_iI1fMuxhtA5egrIDZBaM=]
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Stacie Collins & the Almighty Three live in England [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3vvJjI3PL-3oTN9rl7WP-IvesBtEn5fVDtlhwEYTVUHaYg2NtBNayM_L1v0ow2KllLl39KxDpH13Xx0fO9lFXa-dGWDTGvtzHDdRoyWDjQeZ67HzYYMtq_Th1VfVWxDoMiy-p_1GpYz1axM67sI-F-QbmHDq1VDgOKBs__aVZjakGt9YmDSc3eBjfU0Lw9IA7rli3mfIX8g7-Mr3tf_VfON]

Video of the Secret Sisters - "The One I Love Is Gone" [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3tdJKHksUaD3eNOlq8vDd5ojblWf-RKYsX7TtsRjLtDki20aR0pum8Hh2wSI37qOpH5gNL62dTLNRC4lScWxEq5QHv9V7OoJm9K9k0eCu_JM108qeh0dEZI-i7BjwxDACGYKEPrfnhzoqVSnWlwWiSx8dX2qV36erGjIe0hDty0yWI3V7a6fKJw]
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Video of The Flatlanders - "I Know You" [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3uQYV6Tss5Z9e3lPlHqb1rb6r6Zuug8ucX7hL74smxc4O54XFygmKLjrWii2zlXbY-RpNkdS-YnXO7iv24-NmvnDy6KV0uPPMdUMvUfvG8e05lVYHQka64m6ieUPv2-HAFBBs0sVCxOAi4LGX70SMwJ2dsbwDQZZuQ=]

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Video of the Maldives - "Blood on the Highway" [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3txUMweDX_zFlOAV8xQiVkfqlhiLilYaLzusXufWNKhE18kD_N7mZw9vZPLkZLAA9zgTSrA6ZtQrfGZIjaneak8iQc1H7u2kOFHepZC3NbTAFCyT7eL5rUBVF_pzKHwEMYveejH4-ekX4Rd9TV9kWX2TuFthNulTpEpUQvA08NvCQ==]

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Video of Ryan Adams - "Houses on the Hill" [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3sripbVJJGSbmoDrWe1fhzSBI6uQPjag7Kl6asK_bZfMRMDoIhwb6lxLbqjRGVmWmc1FviRrdxG39kFaXyAthJK4_r9d0jAU_YU8PPrZbnCgQCMw7b1DGM5i6j4JL2NbojArfjPSMq1fi_Pmaq-7ES9DpVDuQip_pU=]

American spiritual - Brandi Carlile live in concert [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3u5vH-PhoN9v0STrfemRrAy2n1iKgMlrhTIxn1R_RWooKql_VxDMbnpJz_8JmBPRK-RUfPGW3y8ndZmtoZPvhPF_JJDx4cuz9pucj_01rZ3gfI19xk7WkoeJfs8QuvqGx_BmC7PQ8DmYZEgGPjwWOWAQY7C3KT2IvDKdRQklAUyHnQ58rpGgyNDcJOB7ZvMOoMeISf0rw2s1Mj6UJR_N27pCIO-PH7FesQ=]

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit video for "Tour of Duty" [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3u8bkm8xpQDwQCD0ylCpNB-pefxnlSPM1RIFf4i0ZRAPszUgk2zeOZkil71pn9L84askzEUESAlvN4gVpZJ7O0p0Oh8O-pa1BOfR5lwSmIGz7iTgK4fz_leBFcuGg5eRAiu2HUA4nt7S3jCwh2HGYo5JXvVTNpvAeGCgLkrnKEpm873piY4XB5k]

Review of the Mountain Firework Company - 'The Lonesome Losing Blues' [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3uI-thFEdkU9g7c-8NoxKG5kwIBZ4zpx6tIOdw9WFNjz9SQd2vVUNV11WsAZPiyYRla61uvQj0iAU1ArSPQQAlLMV_z3lTX6yc3dSRBoFwA_QYB22wHSRsrVgfwMAsvbqrK09nqxZOlKZ-JlTbLM_T10n9c_q2p-UY-FH7EFsAUCQb3EPiprFizYJ81U8VrKrMJOdBDoS1GElkhyf9n74H3]
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Fiddler Paul Crouch: An Appalachian Treasure

by Bill Kopp

Some stories write themselves. Oftentimes a writer does some research, interviews
the subject, and then weaves the resulting information into a narrative. But when
the subject is Asheville, North Carolina fiddler Paul Crouch, it's best to get out
of the way and let the 82-year-old Crouch tell it himself. "The first thing I remember
about music was helping my father put the antenna up. We used to stretch the wire
between two trees, with a glass insulator on each end. Then... More [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001jj0TnPJfQ3v0DYuh3HltuR20ws8GuL5Prszqw07EZ_DS4F57Yvhxz-NgwejmDXj4m3iF0FSOXoTv_8VjxvQm4ypXURZTVKe1x2EFlq7TQaDHDBc8WvBSTs811JEP87QszDhwfThRR0ScKZDO8MbJkQj5oFd3o3mkeTwWXyNMCYX8tyMTnM-yLcwry4sgEAb4R5P7cQksgus=]
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Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin

live in London

by Jela Webb

Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin have been friends for many years and I recall
seeing them way back when, when Colvin was the opener for Carpenter. Since that
time their friendship has developed through a shared love of music and opportunities
to sing and play together, sometimes on each other's albums but mostly privately.
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From Kim Ruehl, your Guide to Folk Music

Of all the music scenes the US has ever known, there's something about the allure of New York's Greenwich Village which has kept it thriving for the folk music world for decades now. From the budding mid-20th Century "revival" period to the Fast Folk crew and the folksingers who are making their way in NYC today. Here's an eye on the evolution of Greenwich Village folk, then and now.

All About the 1960s Folk Revival

What people generally refer to as the 1960s revival actually lasted from the '50s into the '70s (and, in many ways, never let up, though it has evolved). Learn more about what inspired the mid-century folk music revival, who the artists were, and more, with this brief history.

Who Was Jack Hardy?

Jack Hardy arrived in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1970s and was a big part of stirring the scene back up, going into the '80s and all the way til his death in 2010. Learn more about this torch-carrying, hugely influential folkie.

Profile: Lucy Kaplansky

Lucy Kaplansky showed up on the Greenwich Village scene in the '80s and briefly performed as a duo with Shawn Colvin before ducking out to pursue a career as a psychologist. She returned, however, in the 1990s and has since been an influence on a new generation of singer-songwriters.

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Interview with Anthony da Costa

There are, no doubt, a slew of incredible artists still carrying the torch through the Greenwich Village folk music circuit, even as clubs like Kenny's Castaways bid adieu. But few are capturing the Gen Y spectrum of musical interest quite like Anthony da Costa. Learn more with this interview.

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Katharina Wagner Pulls out of Colón Ring

AFM Endorses Obama for Second Term

Los Angeles Philharmonic Names COO

Strip Club Loses Its "Art Form" Argument

Triumph of The Tempest

Rocky Seas, a Waltz and a Violin Concerto

Can They Dance Away With My Copyright?

A Flair for Marketing

Yannick In Philly

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Katharina Wagner Pulls out of Colón Ring

Katharina Wagner has severed her contract with Teatro Colón, where she was to have staged a compact version of the Ring, a tribute to her great-grandfather's bicentenary that was set to run one night only, Nov. 27, and that reduced the epic cycle from 16 to 7 hours.

She and Teatro Colón Intendant Pedro Pablo García Caffi have both said that the split was amicable. But reports that surfaced in the Argentine press earlier this week had Director Valentina Carrasco taking over.

Wagner's move is no surprise. Last week she arrived in Buenos Aires for rehearsals, only to fly back the same day to Germany. Conditions, she said, were unacceptable. There was no rehearsal stage. The costume and make-up staff hadn't begun work, and several artists were not present because they hadn't secured their visas. "I have enough to do in Bayreuth," she told Die Welt.

She sent an email to Intendant Caffi explaining that she would return within 48 hours if the circumstances were made "reasonable." Apparently they were not.

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AFM Endorses Obama for Second Term

The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) International Executive Board has announced its official endorsement of President Obama for a second term.

Aside from his reversal of the "anti-labor legacy" of his predecessor, the President has found favor with the union for his push to eliminate tax breaks for companies that outsource American jobs, as well as his insistence that the rich pay their "fair share" of taxes.

"President Obama inherited a real mess four years ago and has stood by the working people in this country during our emergence from the Great Recession," said AFM President Ray Hair in his comments. "He offers the best hope for recovery and prosperity over the next four years, and he deserves a second term as our President."

AFM has 90,000 members.

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Los Angeles Philharmonic Names COO

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has looked to its own to find a successor to Arvind Manocha in the position of chief operating officer. Manocha, as reported earlier, is moving on to become president and CEO of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Virginia.

Gail Samuel takes her new position on Nov. 19, a promotion from vice president and general manager to COO. Her move caps a journey that began 20 years ago when she started as orchestra manager.

"The strength of an institution is its people and in this matter the LA Phil is richly endowed," commented Philharmonic President Deborah Borda, to whom Samuel will report. "What a pleasure that this critical position will be filled by an individual who has truly 'come up through the ranks' and proven her value in 20 years of service."

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Strip Club Loses Its "Art Form" Argument

ALBANY, N.Y.-- Lap dances are taxable because they don't promote culture in a community the way ballet or other artistic endeavors do, New York's highest court concluded Oct. 23 in a sharply divided ruling.

The lawsuit was filed by Nite Moves in suburban Albany, which was arguing fees for admission to the strip club and for private dances are exempt from sales taxes.

If ice-dancing routines to music haven't been regarded by lawmakers as qualifying, then it was "surely ... not irrational" for the tribunal "to conclude that a club presenting performances by women gyrating on a pole to music, however artistic or athletic their practiced moves are, was also not a qualifying performance entitled to exempt status."

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Triumph of The Tempest

NEW YORK -- Thomas Adès's setting of Shakespeare's The Tempest arrived at the Metropolitan Opera on Oct. 23 with the composer conducting, a production by Robert Lepage to be shared with L'Opéra de Québec and the Wiener Staatsoper. At age 41, Adès is still young enough to be the golden boy and shining hope of British music. His Tempest has already had an extraordinary global success for an opera barely eight years old, and its appearance at an important but cautiously conservative house like the Met is nothing if not a major fashion statement.

The Tempest is made out of familiar musical materials that any attentive operagoer will recognize. But unlike most composers who trod retro paths, Adès takes possession of these time-honored artifacts and makes them his own, clothing them in an enhanced tonal language that sounds fresh, often surprising, and always dramatically alive.

Operas on Shakespearean subjects are notoriously tricky to pull off, but The Tempest is well paced and structured, its score continuously absorbing.

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Rocky Seas, a Waltz, and a Violin Concerto

From Berlin Times by Rebecca Schmid

The programming of the Berlin Philharmonic, while reportedly having gravitated away from the players' specialty in German repertoire since Sir Simon Rattle took the reins a decade ago, not only gives equal weight to post-Romantic repertoire but consistently illuminates connections between works which seem disparate at first glance. Andris Nelsons conducted the orchestra on Wednesday in a program of Britten, Widmann, Debussy and Ravel that yielded a powerful sense of emotional coherence. Jörg Widmann, a prolific German clarinettist and composer whose opera Babylon premieres in Munich next week (also featuring MA.com New Artist of the Month Anna Prohaska), combines neo-Romantic expressivity with avant-garde textures and unrestrained modern angst, much in the spirit of his teacher Wolfgang Rihm, yet in its own impulsive search. His Violin Concerto unfolds in a single, approximately 30-minute movement with a driving, lamenting melody at its center, alternately spurring and diffracting the colors of the orchestra. Structurally, it recalls Rihm works such as Gesungene Zeit, a chamber concerto written for Anne-Sophie Mutter.

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Can They Dance Away With My Copyright?

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Dear Law & Order: Performing Arts Division -

I own the video footage of a performance by a dance company. Recently, I learned that another choreographer purchased a license from the dance company to recreate and perform the same work. However, they used a copy of my video to help in recreating the choreography. In other words, they copied the performance which was on my video, but no one asked my permission. Aren't I entitled to a royalty or a fee? How are the choreography and the video separable? The only way they could get the choreography was through my video."

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A Flair for Marketing

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I am often asked by artists and ensembles how they can gain recognition for themselves and build a following. The easiest way to answer them is by way of example.

Prior to March 1, 2012, I don't think that Sybarite5 was on my radar screen. I'm sure I read that they were a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition in the fall of 2011 but the information just passed through my mind at the time. On March 1 of this year, I received my first e-mail communication from them in which they announced their Carnegie Hall debut at Zankel Hall, scheduled for November 13. In the relatively short newsletter, they also announced the first Sybarite5 baby (born to their bassist and his wife), a few upcoming world premiere performances, some educational workshops, and also saluted their new friends at the Logan Series in Erie, Pennsylvania, saying: "We could not have asked for a warmer, more appreciative audience at Penn State!"

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Yannick In Philly

From "Why I Left Muncie" by Sedgwick Clark

Tuesday night's first Philadelphia Orchestra concert in New York was exciting for several reasons. First and foremost, it featured a Verdi Requiem in Carnegie Hall. For others, it was a proving ground for Yannick Nézet-Séguin as a simpatico music director for the Orchestra at last. A short, compact, 36-year-old Montreal native, with a penchant for ugly ties, he veritably bristles with quick-step intensity, and the Philadelphians were with him all the way.

From the opening pianissimo notes, played at an achingly slow tread, to the most eruptive attacks in the Dies Irae, the players never made an infelicitous sound, never forced their tone or scrunched their bows. The winds were more forwardly balanced and exhibited more character than I recall from this ensemble in Carnegie (perhaps from playing in Verizon Hall, where their clarity is extraordinary). The brass were never rasping or overbearing, and those glorious strings held their own in the most massive Verdi tuttis.

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Latest Roster Changes

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Abbado, Roberto, conductor, added, IMG Artists

Armstrong, Dominic, tenor, added, Fletcher Artist Management

Blendulf, Daniel, conductor, added, HarrisonParrott

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