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Classical Music Review

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    Klaus Mäkelä Brings Back the Wild Streak in StravinskyThe young Finnish conductor had even his own orchestra stomping with enthusiasm.
    By Justin Davidson
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    At the Philharmonic, Dudamel’s First Is Mahler’s NinthHe delivers a showy 2-D performance of a 3-D symphony.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Geffen Hall Has Found Its SoundIt’s finally what it ought to have been all along — and it’s so clear, it may be a little too revealing for some conductors.
    By Justin Davidson
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    A St. Matthew Passion That Speaks Even to NonbelieversAt Carnegie Hall, Bernard Labadie and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s brought out the drama in the Bach.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Rediscovering a Depression-Era Composer Who Sought Unbridled JoyThe Philadelphia Orchestra brings an underappreciated Florence Price symphony to Carnegie Hall.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Carnegie Reopens With Bernstein, Beethoven, and a Tribute to Those 7 p.m. ShoutsAfter 572 silent days.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Philharmonic’s First Concert Back Brought Me Panic and SolaceAt the Shed, Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte and Strauss’s Metamorphosen.
    By Justin Davidson
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    A Concert Review! From a Cemetery. (This Is Not a Metaphor.)At Brooklyn’s Green-Wood, a moving performance that roved among the crypts.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Met Opera’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin Has Found His FootingAfter a few years adrift, the company has found its sheriff — or maybe shepherd is a better word.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Opera Review: The Met Brings Back Samson et Dalila, With Just Enough Fromage“To describe it as gaudy and silly is a compliment, not a complaint.”
    By Justin Davidson
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    What’s Opera, Jaap? Van Zweden’s Opening Night as the Philharmonic’s New LeaderNew music by Ashley Fure, old music by Stravinsky, and a Wagner chaser.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Music Review: Leonard Bernstein Is Paid Half-Hearted Tribute at TanglewoodAndris Nelsons conducted as if he would rather be at home watching TV. Some music can endure an uncommitted performance; Bernstein’s can’t.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. Beethoven’s Fidelio and Mahler’s Tenth, With the Conventions Tossed AwayBeethoven’s only opera, reinterpreted in the era of mass incarceration.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Shostakovich, With Bright L.A. Glare, at Lincoln CenterDudamel brings out the symphony’s loudest, brightest aspects.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The New York Philharmonic’s New Music Director: Thrilling to ExhaustionJaap van Zweden brings the excitement, over and over and over.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Music Review: The ‘Deadpan Lunacy’ of Simon Steen-Andersen at Miller TheaterRube Goldberg composition.
    By Justin Davidson
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    On 50 Years of Meredith Monk’s Excellent WeirdnessShe has been carrying out a slow revolution, with no end in sight.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Classical Music Review: The Prototype FestivalCan it grow without disappointing those who treasure it most?
    By Justin Davidson
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    Davidson on John Luther Adams’s Carnegie Hall Debut“An utterly original, totally immersive sound world.”
    By Justin Davidson
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    Davidson: Anna Nicole the Opera Is a Big Bust“The American idioms appear to have sprung from a phrase book edited on another planet.”
    By Justin Davidson
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    Justin Davidson on the MoMA’s First Sound Art ExhibitionThe artists in Soundings all seem to live in isolation booths.
    By Justin Davidson