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PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
American cellist Alisa Weilerstein and German violinist Julia Fischer reunite with Lorin Maazel and the Philharmonic in a series of individual solo turns this month, beginning on Nov. 20. The two young soloists speak about their upcoming performances and reflect on collaborating with Maazel.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
High quality images of the concert are available
DOHA, Qatar, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The newly formed Qatar
Philharmonic Orchestra performed for the first time on Thursday night,
marking the start of an ambitious plan of musical revival in Qatar.
Under the baton of world renowned conductor Maestro Lorin Maazel, Music
Director of the New York Philharmonic, the orchestra performed...
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... media attention since being named the next music director of the New York Philharmonic, succeeding Lorin Maazel. He'll start next fall.Part of the mystique of this maestro, one of the youngest ever of the New York Philharmonic, has to do with growing up with the orchestra - attending rehearsals, hearing musicians playing quartets in his living room, going on international tours and...
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... have scored a real coup. This is a newly rediscovered, full-concert-length work...News21 Oct 2008Lorin Maazel, Fostering Artistry at Home http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101201849.html By Anne Midgette [Washington Post, 13 October 2008] CASTLETON, Va. -- The building looks like the setting for an opulent '80s television drama: stucco and lavish...
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Time (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... performance is solid, if not quite the monumental event one might have hoped for. Conductor Lorin Maazel opens with "Prelude to Lohengrin" by Wagner and closes with a traditional Korean piece called "Arirang" just to make sure no one misses the olive branch. But just as worthy of viewing is the bonus disc featuring the documentary Americans in Pyongyang. As Maazel leads a swaying...
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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.
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Leonard Link (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Mishaps plagued tonight's concert by the NY Philharmonic, but did not deter the orchestra from giving fine performances. The program, conducted by Lorin Maazel, was centered around Krzysztof Penderecki's Cello Concerto No. 2 (1982), with Alisa Weilerstein as soloist. As...
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Teresa Berganza, in an interview with Peru's "El Comercio", joins the krankykinz of the opera world -- Franco Zeffirelli and Lorin Maazel -- in attacking directors who "are destroying opera", who "don't know about music".(Via leading Peruvian opera blogger Maldito...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
This sort of spectacle-producing technology is more often used by performance artists and by companies like Cirque du Soleil. Perhaps not surprisingly, Cirque's Las Vegas production "Kà" and this "Faust" share a director: the Canadian Robert Lepage, who is making his Met debut. His opera credits include Lorin Maazel's "1984" at the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, a "Rake's Progress" produced...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Dear Mona: The New York Philharmonic got back on track soon enough! You recall that, earlier this year, they went to North Korea. Some people voiced human-rights concerns -- concerns that this visit would abet one of the cruelest despotisms in the history of man. Responding, Lorin Maazel, the orchestra's music director, said, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks, should...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
The Qatar Philharmonic, a professional orchestra of 101 musicians from 31 countries, gives its inaugural concert this week under the baton of Lorin Maazel in Doha, the capital of the small Persian Gulf state....
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... New Yorker to be the orchestra's music director and will be its second-youngest. He succeeds Lorin Maazel and follows such predecessors as Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini and Leonard Bernstein.
"To have selected Alan, we were not just looking for a conductor and a musician. We were looking for a creative personality that can help this remarkable city and this remarkable orchestra...
