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The New Zealand String Quartet - saving the best till last
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[New Zealand Listener] - It is top dog in Joseph Kerman's erudite 386-page monograph on the string quartets, which says Op 131's finale is Beethoven's finest. The players' concentration staggered me. At promoter Christopher Marshall's Bridgewater house concert, they opened
Shocker Cools Into a 'Rite' of Passage
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[New York Times] - “We live in the valley of the Ninth,” wrote Joseph Kerman, the musicologist and critic. “That we cannot help.” For many the Ninth is a musical mountain that inspires a paralyzing awe. Robert Craft, Stravinsky's assistant during the composer's last
The Classical Beat: Lyric Opera’s ‘Tosca’ and Harriman-Jewell concert...
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It’s melodramatic for sure, but “Tosca” is a vital opera, bursting with human passions and emotions and Giacomo Puccini’s sweeping, heart-rending music. The...
Joseph Kerman, musicologist, critic, cultural shaper, dies - SFGate
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Joseph Kerman, a musicologist and critic whose learned, far-ranging and sometimes acerbic writings helped overturn accepted ideas about music both within the...
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