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From:  "Wah Keung Chan @ La Scena Musicale" <wkchan@s...>
"Wah Keung Chan @ La Scena Musicale" <wkchan@s...>
Date:  Tue Apr 3, 2001  3:00 am
Subject:  Today's Classical Music News - April 2, 2001


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from the April issues of Opera News, Classical Singer and La Scena
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2001-04-02

* Femme du Monde - Natalie Dessay (Interview, Brian Kellow - Opera News)
* Russian Roulette - Prokofiev's The Gambler (Article, Richard Burke
- Opera News)
* Rose of Hell - Kundry, the most disturbing female character Wagner
ever created (Article, David J. Baker - Opera News)
* Coda - Screen Test ( Quiz, F. Paul Driscoll - Opera News)
* Books (American Opera; Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach's
Les Contes d'Hoffmann; The Wagners: The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty)
(Book Review, Opera News)
* In Review (Review, Opera News)
* Recordings (CD Review, Opera News)
* Letter from Italy (Commentary, Stephen Hastings - Opera News)
* Sight and Sound - Pricey or Priceless? ( Technology, Hans Fantel -
Opera News)
* Sound Bites: Mel Ulrich, baritone (Profile, F. Paul Driscoll - Opera News)
* On The Beat (News, Brian Kellow - Opera News)
* Viewpoint - Changing Faces (Editorial, Rudolph S. Rauch - Opera News)
* The Associate - Walter Taussig has history for a middle name
(Interview, Ira Siff - Opera News)
* Trill Seeker - two different versions of Zerbinetta's aria
(Article, Paul Thomason - Opera News)
* AOL Time Warner, EMI, BMG and Real Networks to Create MusicNet to
Distribute Music Over World Wide Web (News, Valerie Leroux -
Andante.com)
* Music & Vision's monthly column (Article, Keith Bramich - Music & Vision)
* A delightful show by a cast that clicks (Review, Tamara Bernstein -
National Post)
* Opera in Concert hits high note with Handel opera (Review, Geoff
Chapman - Toronto Star)
* Resourceful London City Opera Stages a Credible 'Carmen' (Review,
Chris Pasles - LA Times)
* Of One Mind and Many Styles (Review, Richard S Ginell - LA Times)
* A Sobering Meditation on Death (Review, Daniel Cariagra - LA Times)
* Mozart 'can cut epilepsy' (Article, BBC Online)
* Q&A: Nike Wagner: 'Bayreuth Needs Strength' (Interview, FAZ)
* Net music breakthrough brewing (Article, John Borland - CNet)
* British invaders host an all-out party (Article, Stacey Kors -
Financial Times)
* John Tavener: Total Eclipse/Agraphon, Academy of Ancient Music (CD
Review, Harry Sumrall - SonicNet.com)
* Aretha Franklin Plans Operatic Return To Studio (Article, Shaheem
Reid - SonicNet.com)
* Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Antoni Wit (CD Review,
Robert Cummings - CD Now)
* Luciano Pavarotti - 40th Anniversary Recital (CD Review, Benjamin
Ivry - CD Now)
* More Sergiu Celibidache Treasures from Radio Vaults (CD Review,
Steve Holtje - CD Now)
* Historic Bernstein Mahler Cycle Reappears in Concise Packaging (CD
Review, Steve Holtje - CD Now)
* Renee Fleming/Jean-Yves Thibaudet (CD Review, Benjamin Ivry - CD Now)
* Phyllis Curtin/New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein (CD Review,
Steve Holtje - CD Now)
* Newfoundland teacher quits job over music cuts (Article, Suzanna
Woolridge - CBC Infoculture)
* April 2001 Issue Contents (News, Opera News)
* Alexander Tselyakov: Dazzling and Sensitive [Web Only] (Article,
Lucie Renaud - La Scena Musicale)
* Pianist Brendel bewitches (Review, Arthur Kaptainis - Montreal Gazette)
* Takacs Quartet a flawless triumph (Review, Ilse Zadrozny - Montreal Gazette)
* The New Face of Opera (Article, Tara Pepper and Dana Thomas - Newsweek)
* Classical Singer April 2001 CD Reviews (CD Review, Freeman Günter -
Classical Singer)
* April 2001 Reviews (Review, Freeman Günter & Margaret Harrison -
Classical Singer)
* A Close Look at "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" from Puccini's "La
Rondine" (Article, Joseph Smith - Classical Singer)
* Oh Say, Can You Hear? - On Singer's Hearing (Article, Dr. Anthony
Jahn - Classical Singer)
* Feodor Chaliapin, 63 years after his death (Article, Nicholas E.
Limansky - Classical Singer)
* The Opera Orchestra of New York's Young Artist Program - A Green
House for Growing Artists (Article, Carla Wood - Classical Singer)
* All About Eve - Tribute to Eve Queler (Article, Classical Singer)
* Mitsuko Uchida - Rekindling the very grandest of passions
(Interview, Brian Hunt - The Daily Telegraph)
* A Stravinsky Program Begins With a Schoenberg Curiosity (Review,
Anthony Tommasini - New York Times)

2001-04-01

* Soprano Gauvin flames Tafelmusik's fire (Article, Geoff Chapman -
Toronto Star)
* The Movie Offer He Couldn't Refuse (Review, Jon Burlingame - LA Times)
* Charlotte's ex-manager blasts book (Article, BBC Online)
* The tempestuous story of the Atlanta Opera (Article, Pierre Ruhe -
Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
* April 2001 Issue Contents (News, Classical Singer)
* Upcoming in Montreal (Preview, La Scena Musicale)
* THE ORFORD ARTS CENTRE: A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY (Article, Lucie
Renaud - La Scena Musicale)
* The Musical Mind of Iannis Xenakis (Article, Justin Mariner - La
Scena Musicale)
* The Molinari Quartet: a palette of sound (Article, Lucie Renaud -
La Scena Musicale)
* Graham Vick, They're missing the point (Article, Simon Fanshawe -
Sunday Times)
* Sally Burgess, A diva of diversity (Profile, Hugh Canning - Sunday Times)
* Paperback Music: One Solution to the MP3 Debate (Commentary, Rob
Walker - New York Times)
* 15-Year-Old Charlotte Church: The Major Minor (Article, Jonathan
van Meter - New York Times Magazine)
* Music: Pushing Gypsiness, Roma or Otherwise (Article, Michael
Beckerman - New York Times)
* The Sound of New Music Is Often Chinese (Article, James Oestreich -
New York Times)
* Composers Emerging From China's Grim Revolution (Article, Sheila
Melvin and Jindong Cai - New York Times)

Wah Keung Chan

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