The New York Philharmonic stun in Sevens Joanna Jiang May 11, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews On May 6, the New York Philharmonic performed two serious seventh symphonies: Beethoven’s boisterous A (op. 92) and Sibelius’ programmatic C (op. 105). The evening was capped with shorter-length works from ...
Vivaldi, Bach, and Tchaikovsky: an evening with the San Francisco Symphony Nikos Zarikos November 4, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews On October 23, San Francisco Symphony concertmaster Alexander Barantschik, Principal Second Violin Dan Carlson, and Principal Keyboard Robin Sutherland starred as soloists at the Davies Symphony Hall in a p...
Magisterial Garrick Ohlsson on the shoulder of giants Nikos Zarikos October 18, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews In 1676, Sir Isaac Newton wrote in a letter: 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants'. A concept perhaps made relatively more colloquial by physicist Stephen Hawking in 2002, i...