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100 Years Ago, Electric Recording Injected New Spark In Music’s Legacy

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By David Patrick Stearns
| Classical Voice North America
The Rosé Quartet recorded Beethoven’s Op. 131 in 1927. (Painting by Oskar Stössel) PERSPECTIVE — In 1926, the classical recordings industry became possible. Replacing a primitive, temperamental recording horn with microphones revealed new depth of sound amid what is now a lost-world crossroads of 19th-century giants and an emerging, new-order generation.
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His world premiere got shelved, but Wynton Marsalis wowed this week at the Philadelphia Orchestra

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By David Patrick Stearns
| The Philadelphia Inquirer
The world will always need a new Wynton Marsalis symphony, though his newest one will have a postponed Philadelphia Orchestra premiere, replaced Thursday by his massive 2016 Symphony No. 4 (“The Jungle “) in excerpts that nonetheless wowed the Kimmel Center audience.
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‘The Post Office,’ Opera Tied To Gay Issues, Has Ring Of Dead Letter File

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By David Patrick Stearns
| Classical Voice North America
A scene from Laura Kaminsky’s ‘The Post Office’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Photos by Julieta Cervantes) NEW YORK — With conciliatory social awareness, Laura Kaminsky’s new opera The Post Office ran May 16-21 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Fisher Space with a Kafka-esque wall of mail crates, an impressive cast of singers, and well-crafted music. It portrays the gay-marriage debate with nothing new to say.
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