Young conductor gets major post: Yannick Nezet-Seguin to Philadelphia Orchestra Audiences for classical music may be getting older and older, but the trend for plum conducting jobs continues to skew young. On the heels of Gustavo Dudamel's much-publicized appointment at the Los Angeles Philharmoni...
Music Review: Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra The motto of the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, which offered the first of two programs at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall on Friday night, is “the cutting edge of classical music.” That may be stretching it a bit, at least by the standar...
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| Vladimir Martynov's Vita Nuova |
 Western music may have to come up with a new stylistic category just to describe Vladimir Martynov's Vita Nuova. "Audaciously Appropriated Late Romanticism" would do. The 2½-hour work, a concert opera of sorts, was given its U.S. premiere Saturday night by Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the unveiling of a $159 million remake of Alice Tully Hall. Even if it did nothing else, Vita Nuova could not have posed a better test for the new space. Both the young conductor - who will conduct at the Kimmel Center later this week - and the newly young Tully are likely to have implications for Philadelphia.
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