Music
Fine program by renowned Talich Quartet
Tuesday’s program by the renowned Talich Quartet included an adventurous centerpiece, “Music Mundi” by Benjamin Yusupov, a work that Talich had premiered in 2008. (Updated: 11/18/09 8:04 AM )
Buffalo's Michael Christie's conducting career takes off
Most conductors, quizzed about their childhoods, remember the first time they heard Mozart or Mahler. The high-profile young conductor Michael Christie— who is coming to town to conduct the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in two concerts this weekend—remembers the buzzing of the airplanes from the Clinton Street airport. (Updated: 11/17/09 11:35 AM )
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Cast Album (Updated: 11/15/09 10:19 AM )
Vienna played hot and cool
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is launching its two-week-long Viennese Festival this weekend with music by Mozart, Beethoven, Fritz Kreisler and Joseph Marx. (Updated: 11/14/09 8:07 AM )
Concert recalls Parisian salon
Friday night in Lippes Concert Hall was an audio flashback to the Paris salon of Nadia Boulanger, the noted pedagogue whose students included Aaron Copland, Astor Piazzolla, Irving Fine and Paul Chihara. Compositions from all those notables were on the resulting program called “Afternoons in Paris.” (Updated: 11/14/09 8:07 AM )
Metallica brings its pyrotechnics to HSBC Arena
The best heavy metal has always been unified by one common subtext. You know that side of yourself you’ve been ignoring all these years, that ugly bit that you’ve kept hidden in the closet all this time while you went about your society-approved business? Well, guess what? It’s still there. And it’s waiting for you. (Updated: 11/11/09 10:50 AM )
From underground, the mighty sound of Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Some forms of music — no matter how well they’re made — seem to be at home “underground.” (Updated: 11/10/09 8:09 AM )
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Her peers consider Dolly Parton to be among the best songwriters around and a singer in the company of legends Mother Maybelle Carter and Kitty Wells. (Updated: 11/08/09 11:34 AM )
Kleinhans rocks with Motown hits
Funny, even in historic Kleinhans Music Hall, someone can still figure out a new trick to pull off. Saturday, Spectrum singer Cushney Roberts hit on something I have never seen anyone do. (Updated: 11/08/09 8:23 AM )
Jones calls out 'country' stars
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country Music Hall of Famer George Jones isn't a big fan of where the genre has moved in recent years. (Updated: 11/03/09 6:17 PM )
Viva Vivaldi concert a veritable feast of vim, vigor and verve
Marylouise Nanna and Buffalo’s Ars Nova Musicians launched Viva Vivaldi XXXI with supreme style Sunday night in the new Buffalo Religious Arts Center, formerly St. Francis Xavier Church, in Black Rock. A full house turned out. (Updated: 11/02/09 6:44 AM )
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Folk (Updated: 11/01/09 6:45 AM )
Pop songstress Christina Courtin displays versatility at Tralf
The imprint that pop songstress Christina Courtin left on her hometown could be measured by the young group of admirers who attended her seated show Friday night in the Tralf. (Updated: 10/31/09 9:05 AM )
From power to grace, Bruns conjures spirituality, grandeur
Felix Mendelssohn gets credit for a fair number of things: He was one of the folks who more or less resurrected the music of Johann Sebastian Bach from the dustbin of history, but he also wrote a goodly number of piano scores and created the incidental music for Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — including the famous “Wedding March,” a standard at countless nuptials. (Updated: 10/31/09 7:50 AM )
Valli, still going strong, looks for new outlets
Frankie Valli’s still got it going on with the Four Seasons. (Updated: 10/30/09 7:00 AM )