Opera Today (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Elektra begins with an explosion and remains, with a few lyric interludes, on that extreme pitch throughout its two hours.
The Crescat (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... this year's winner of the Avery Fisher Award .
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
... the full orchestra concerts. Richard Termine for The New York TimesThe New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, with Lorin Maazel conducting Sheryl Staples (violin), Robert Langevin (flute), Liang Wang (oboe) and Philip Smith (piccolo trumpet). This is not a purist’s objection but simply a matter of contemporary taste: large ensemble performances of this music, conducted from the...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Not that there was much danger of pondering anything very deeply in this gaudy context, with the Avery Fisher Hall stage fiercely tarted up for a broadcast and with musical sequences like Rossini’s “Gazza Ladra” Overture (loudest ever) followed by Saint-Saëns’s “Danse Macabre” (most macabre ever, and not entirely in a good way) and Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 5 (fastest ever, except...
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
... complete with gifts.”The concert, it turned out, was a dress rehearsal for a fund-raiser at Avery Fisher Hall, which was to take place the following night. “I would consider myself a laborer of love,” said the singer and actress Pauletta Pearson Washington, who is the wife of Denzel Washington, as she waited in her dressing room before the run-through performance, clad in gray cashmere...
Night After Night (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
New York Philharmonic Messiah at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, December 19, 2008
Night After Night (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
Gilbert Kaplan conducts the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, December 10, 2008Remember this one, then go here, here and especially here. We'll revisit this topic shortly.
Night After Night (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, December 9, 2008
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
Sayonara, Avery Fisher Hall. Although a trifecta of fashion show bailouts hit this week from Vera Wang , Betsey Johnson , and Carmen Marc Valvo all of whom won't show at the tents in February not everyone is shying away from Bryant Park this Fashion Week. Tommy Hilfiger is returning his show to the tents for the first time in three years after showing off-site at Avery Fisher...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 13/12/2008
On Thursday at Avery Fisher Hall, the pianist Leon Fleisher performed with the New York Philharmonic led by Lorin Maazel.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra presented the American premiere of works by Walter Braunfels, Hermann Suter and Joseph Marx on Sunday at Avery Fisher Hall.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
On Tuesday at Avery Fisher Hall, Lorin Maazel led a performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 (“Turkish”) with the young German violinist Julia Fischer as the excellent soloist.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Fabio Luisi, the Staatskapelle’s principal conductor, led imaginative performances of two Richard Strauss tone poems at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday.
