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| Janelle Gelgand in the Cincinnati Enquirer writes that Lauren Flanigan's Norma had "vocal flaws and pitch problems," while Kristine Jepson's "performance of Adalgisa was virtually flawless." |
| "The Proms' Greek theme got off to the most imposing of starts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's concert performance of Michael Tippett's King Priam," wrote Tom Service at guardian.co.uk. * * * "But, for all the depth of the entire cast, the indelible image left by the opera was the power of music itself." |
| "Charlotte's latest classical album has sold 10 times fewer copies than her first one, her venture into pop has been a critical wipe-out and her debut movie flopped," writes Martin Shipton about Charlotte Church in an article at icwales.co.uk. |
| The DVD of Chicago will be available at amazon.com on August 19, 2003. |
| The DVD of the Covent Garden production of Mozart's Die Zauberfloete with Dorothea Roeschmann and Simon Keenlyside is scheduled for release at amazon.co.uk and at amazon.de on 1 September 2003. |
| Britten (Life and Times) by David Matthews is a book "so well-balanced and so full of sympathetic but by no means uncritical insights that if I were asked to recommend an introduction to Britten to somebody who knew little or nothing about the man and his music, I would unhesitatingly urge this one," wrote Michael Kennedy at telegraph.co.uk. The book can be ordered from amazon.co.uk. |
| "Massachusetts may be the best classical music market in the [United States], according to [Boston Symphony Orchestra] managing director Mark Volpe. Recent National Endowment for the Arts surveys show that approximately 15 percent of Americans said they had attended a classical music event in the previous year. In the Bay State, more than 24 percent had taken in a symphony, chamber music, or choral recital. 'Boston, per capita, has a high number of people who've grown up with music in their lives, there are more PhDs and doctors here, and they go to concerts in large numbers, and it's a higher education capital,' says Volpe."--from an article by Maureen Dezell and Geoff Edgers in the Boston Globe of August 10, 2003. |
| The DVD of the Metropolitan Opera's Franco Zeffirelli production of Turandot with Eva Marton and Plácido Domingo, conducted by James Levine, has been re-released and can be ordered from amazon.com. T. J. Medrek in the Boston Herald calls this performance one classic of James Levine's tenure with the Met. |
| A Classics for Pleasure compact disc Schubert: Favourite Lieder with Simon Keenlyside is set for release on 1 September 2003 and can be ordered from amazon.co.uk. |
| Higher, the new compact disc of Aled Jones, is scheduled for release on 29 September 2003 and can be ordered from amazon.co.uk. |
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| The recording of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with the Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Rafael Kubelik, which has received much favorable notice from critics, is being re-released on 15 September 2003 on the Arts Archives label and can be ordered from amazon.co.uk. |
| In the Boston Herald of September 23, 2003, T. J. Medrek wrote: "Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Emmanuel Music's new CD of two of Bach's cantatas is proof that perfection is possible. The Nonesuch disc captures the glorious mezzo at her finest. Her heartbreakingly beautiful voice, so filled with emotional depth, carries us along on two of Bach's most powerful journeys to hell and back." |
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| The sound of Sting's new album Sacred Love "is a typically sophisticated mix of pop, jazz, funk, and world music," writes Steve Morse in the Boston Globe of September 30, 2003. |
| Alfred Hickling writes about Massenet and operatic fashion in an article at guardian.co.uk. |
| "Last week, while listening to the new, symphonically scored disc by pop star Rufus Wainwright titled Want One, I wondered if the time curve is telescoping: Maybe the pop songs of this year are the classical art songs of the next?," wrote David Patrick Stearns in an article in The Philadephia Inquirer. |
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