Posts Tagged ‘reviews’
We Love Music: Musical Moments– Kurtágs Play Kurtág at the Library of Congress
‘2007.10.19-111c.am’ courtesy of ‘RShinozaki’
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium
György and Márta Kurtág & the Keller Quartet
After the Library of Congress’ recent parade of the rather bland contemporary American music, the premiere of a new work by Kurtág performed by the composer and his wife and long-time duet partner Márta was like a breath [...]
More »Ethnic Dining Guide
Tyler Cowen’s Ethnic Dining Guide for the DC area has been updated for 2009. He starts off with a plug for his book, Discover Your Inner Economist, offers some rules of thumb for choosing ethnic food restaurants in general, lists some “must-eat” places, then launches into a grand, culturally-alphabetized list of restaurants of every regional [...]
More »Leung and Takao vs. Millennium Stage
Millennium Stage Detail uploaded by mjlaflaca
Cellist Amy Leung and pianist Naoko Takao gave a recital this 18 August, but they also gave us an object lesson in the challenges of presenting music in the wrong setting, here a venue which robs the music of precisely the features that make it worthy of performance– once again, [...]
