October 2009
Classics Declassified: Leon Botstein’s Tour of the Beethoven Symphonies with the ASO at Peter Norton Symphony Space, New York
For some reason that escapes me 2009 has become a “Beethoven year,” or at least a “Beethoven symphony year.” James Levine,* Leon Botstein, and Gerard Schwarz, to name only the conductors who immediately come to mind, have seen fit to …
Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique at Carnegie Hall
Joseph Haydn, Die Schöpfung
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Artistic Director and Conductor
Carnegie Hall, Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Monteverdi Choir
Lucy Crowe, Soprano
Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano
James Gilchrist, Tenor
Vuyani Mlinde, Bass
Matthew Rose, Bass…
Bloomsbury Auctions, New York. Presents. Art Auction, Printmaking Demonstration, and Reception – A Benefit for Manhattan Graphics Center, Tuesday November 3, 2009, 6–9 pm
The Manhattan Graphics Center is holding a no-reserve, no-buyer’s-commission, benefit auction of fine prints at Bloomsbury Auctions, New York. Available for bidding are over 400 fine prints by MGC members, a selection from the MGC archives, and donated works from …
Tarquinia’s Medieval and Renaissance Ceramics Museum (Museo della Ceramica D’Uso a Corneto)
The Berkshire Review for the Arts, now beginning its third year, thanks its readers.
Bloomsbury Photographs & Photographic Editions, Tuesday 6th October 2009
Can we still call photography a young market in the art world? If we look back to the 17th century sales of paintings, drawings, and antiquities, yes, obviously, but also, there is enough work still on the market that most …