Victoria Martino, Author at New York Arts

Music

Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra Open the Symphonic Masters Series at Lincoln Center

November 12, 2012Victoria Martino

Lincoln Center’s acclaimed Great Performers series began its 2012/13 Symphonic Masters lineup with two outstanding performances by the London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of its principal conductor, Valery Gergiev. Each of the all-Brahms programs featured a concerto and a …

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The Takács Quartet. Photo by Richard Houghton.

Looking Back and Looking Forward: Takács String Quartet in Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series

November 11, 2012Victoria Martino

Lincoln Center: October 25 2012

Haydn – String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5
Britten – String Quartet No. 2
Shostakovich – Piano Quintet
Marc-André Hamelin – piano

The Takács Quartet
Edward Dusinberre – violin
Károly Schranz – violin
Geraldine Walther …

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Cory Stearns and Veronika Part in ‘The Moor’s Pavane.’ Photo Courtesy American Ballet Theatre.

An Afternoon of Contrasts: American Ballet Theatre at New York City Center

November 1, 2012Victoria Martino

One would have difficulty imagining a more diverse ballet program than that presented by the American Ballet Theatre last Friday afternoon, in its brief series of fall performances at New York City Center. It was a journey through four centuries …

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Barbara Cook as Barbie Hallem in Alfred Hitchcock Presents 'A Little Sleep' (1957).

Birthday Bashes Abound in the Big Apple: Garrison Keillor at 70 and Barbara Cook at 85

October 25, 2012Victoria Martino

It isn’t often that two luminaries of the entertainment world publicly mark major milestones in the same week and city. Yet such was the case last week in New York: on Tuesday, Garrison Keillor reflected upon seven decades of life in a special appearance with the New York Philharmonic, and on Thursday, Barbara Cook celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday in Carnegie Hall, exactly one week in anticipation of the actual day.

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Inextinguishable Fire – An Evening of Nielsen and Tchaikovsky at the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor, Robert Langevin, Flute, Nikolaj Znaider Violin

October 21, 2012Victoria Martino

Avery Fisher Hall
Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 12, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor
Robert Langevin, flute
Nikolaj Znaider, violin

Nielsen – Flute Concerto
Nielsen – Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 2, Little Russian

Last …

Dance

From Balachine's Firebird. Photo by Paul Kolnik.

The New York City Ballet’s All Balanchine and Stravinsky Festival

October 10, 2012Victoria Martino

The New York City Ballet began its fall season at the David H. Koch Theater with a three-program tribute to the legendary choreographer/composer duo of Balanchine and Stravinsky. The first installment (which this reviewer unfortunately did not see) featured the classic Greek trilogy of Orpheus, Apollo, and Agon. The second program comprised the most overtly Russian collaborations of the two artists, drawing upon their common background in rich folk and fairy tale traditions.