Newcastle's arching Tyne Bridge, Liverpool's modernist Philharmonic Hall and the classical rotunda of Manchester's central library, which held 300 readers in what was then the country's biggest reading room outside the British Library in London, were all products of the civic and, in some cases, philanthropic determination of local leaders.
Last week, Mr. Bronfman joined the Emerson String Quartet at New York's Carnegie Hall for an all-Brahms program, and this week he partners with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in four performances of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1.
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And the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall, which provides a virtual seat at live concerts performed there, is a relaxed, smooth affair.
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Ms. Wang, a 25-year-old critically acclaimed concert pianist who makes her debut at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic Thursday, said she's gotten the wrong kind of attention from that video so much so that she's banned the frenetic piece by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from her repertoire, kept it off her new CD and rebuffed requests by orchestras and fans to perform the work as an encore.
The rest of the boxed set is given to orchestral projects, including excellent albums from the studio ("Let My Children Hear Music, " released in 1972) and live at Philharmonic later Avery Fisher Hall ("Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert, " 1972).
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In Prague, the riverside Rudolfinum concert hall was flooded, destroying the Czech Philharmonic's technical equipment.
On December 8th his odyssey reaches an emotional apotheosis when he conducts the work with the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Centre's Avery Fisher Hall 100 years to the night after the composer, with the same orchestra, gave the piece its American premiere.
George Chakiris, who played Bernardo, leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, in the film, said in a phone interview last week that its prologue was shot at two Manhattan locations, at 68th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, slightly north of where Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, stands today, and in a schoolyard at 110th Street and Second Avenue.
The work had its East Coast premiere Wednesday night at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in a performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by its music director Gustavo Dudamel.
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