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Zachary Woolfe

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News from the @nytimes newsroom: Robert D. McFadden is retiring after 63 years and 4,200 articles. "Bob set the standard for a gifted generalist capable of delivering a literary synthesis of the most important story of the day under impossible deadline pressure."


Riccardo Muti called her “without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet.” But Anita Rachvelishvili has struggled with vocal problems since her pregnancy two years ago. nytimes.com/2023/12/20/art…


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I reviewed the last concert of the Emerson String Quartet, a group that has beaten at the heart of chamber music in the United States, and far beyond, for almost half a century. nytimes.com/2023/10/23/art…


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Waltraud Meier’s final curtain call — PANDEMONIUM!

Tonight: the final performance! A sold out house. Gay outfits already spotted: fully sequined electric blue jumpsuit, full leathers.

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I spent the end of my summer in Tsinandali, Georgia, where I wrote a longread profile of the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra for @vanmusicmag Strap in! van-magazine.com/mag/pan-caucas…


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Christian Thielemann wird ab 2024 die Nachfolge von Daniel Barenboim als Generalmusikdirektor an der @StaatsoperBLN antreten. Das verkündete Senator @ChialoJoe soeben bei der Pressekonferenz vor Ort. Chialo: „Mit ihm sichern wir höchste musikalische Exzellenz für unsere Stadt.“

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In Lucerne, Vladimir Jurowski asks that climate activists are allowed to speak, threatens to leave the stage when they are interrupted, then sits on the podium to listen.

🤝Vladimir Jurowski zum Publikum des @kklluzern: "Hört auf! Lasst sie doch reden! Bitte. Und dann spielen wir unsere Symphonie, sonst gehe ich jetzt von der Bühne." Danke für Ihre Unterstützung, Vladimir Jurowski! #ActNow #A22 @PilatusToday @key_SDA_news @SRFnews @watson_news



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Join us in wishing Michael Riesman a happy 80th birthday!  Michael has been a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1974, and since has served at its Music Director now for 47 years!  This includes every major premiere by the ensemble since Music in 12 Parts and EINSTEIN ON

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visit Charles Busch in his Greenwich Village duplex, where he has a bed fit for Gene Tierney, to talk about his new memoir, "Leading Lady."nytimes.com/2023/09/07/the…


Diamanda Galás is fierce as ever on the sentence given to the woman who murdered her voice teacher, and the way our society treats the aged

The brilliant Diamanda Galás on the murder of Barbara Maier Gustern, and the sinister nature of the killer’s 8-year sentence. rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…



Finally listening to this and David is right: Honeck and Pittsburgh’s Tchaikovsky 5 “gives the symphony all the harrowing drama — the dread, the instability, the vertiginous sense of being on the edge — of a mental breakdown.” nytimes.com/2023/08/31/art…


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Harmonia Mundi? Partially owned by Universal. Hyperion? Acquired by Universal. BIS? Now "part of the Apply family," per this announcement today. How long can the other major, independent labels last?

BIS Records to become part of Apple: acclaimed Swedish label marks 50th anniversary with announcement on its future. Find out more: gramophone.co.uk/classical%20mu…



The indispensable Manny Ax, profiled by ⁦@fafnerthekite⁩. I’ve been guilty of taking him for granted — maybe you have, too. nytimes.com/2023/09/01/art…


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