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Lorin Maazel, Conductor
For over five decades, Lorin Maazel has been one of the world’s most esteemed and sought-after conductors. In spring 2011, he completed his fifth and final season as the inaugural Music Director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain. Music Director of the New York Philharmonic from 2002 to 2009, he assumed the same post with the Munich Philharmonic at the start of the 2012/13 season. He is also the founder, Executive and Artistic Director of a new festival based on his farm ...
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Featured Video
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Lorin Maazel Delivering Convocation Address at Northwestern University
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Recording Date:
Thu 25 Sep 2008
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I - Adagio (29:42)
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A great number of opera lovers are becoming increasingly alienated from an art form that has nourished the spirits and minds generations of people...
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In Part One of my comment regarding the Philistinism of some present day opera staging concepts, I wrote: 'The roles of both stage director and c...
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What can be done to safeguard an endangered art form? If it is believed that an opera audience can be cowed into tolerating any abuse of text an...
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No rehearsals, no performances, no travel, the luxury of limbo. I float. Then I remember the raw bones of the 2012/13 season: 102 Concert...
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The performance in concert form of Puccini's opera "La Fanciulla del West" in La Coruña, Spain, on June 6 was a triumph for which I take no credit...
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Soap Box
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Munich Philharmonic Asia Tour: Concert #12 - It's Over
It’s over. Last night, April 28, we gave the final concert of our nine-city, twelve-concert, four-program, three soloists, Asian tour...in Guangzhou, China (used to be called Canton).
After the wild sounds of the encore, Bizet’s madcap Farandole Dance and the cheers that followed had all faded away, my colleagues of the Munich Philharmonic and I gathered to celebrate, clinking beer glasses and taking iPhone pics. We were happy campers.
Yesterday morning I had been driven from Shenzhen to Guangzhou, some 140 kilometers of highway, on either side of which stood tall, in countless shapes and patterns, endless groupings of factories, skyscrapers and high-risers. All 140 kilometers of road…not a gap anywhere..
Upon arrival, had checked into the Shangri-La Hotel where the culinary offering of a superb Japanese restaurant awaited me.
(Conversely in Tokyo, one finds fabulous Chinese restaurants!)
Rested up and waded into the last one...with even more youngsters in the audience, totally focused. Who says Classical Music is just for the old and cold?
I write this blog the next day on a flight back to Beijing. The Munich Phil left for home today but I’ll be hanging out in Beijing (I just love it there) for another week, conducting a combined NCPA /Berlin Philharmonic orchestra in “The Ring without Words," an orchestral synthesis (mine) of Wagner’s four music dramas.
More about that tomorrow.
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Best of luck to the maestro on his upcoming return to the NY Phil -- wish I could be there to see and hear it in person, but I'll settle for tuning in online afterward. I'm especially looking forward to the Concerto for Flute and Harp.
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Sorry for the late response! Thank You!
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Castleton Festival rehearsals are underway! Looking forward to a wonderful festival!
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Events
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13 Jul 2013
Castleton Farms Festival Tent
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19 Jul 2013
Castleton Farms Festival Tent
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26 Jul 2013
Castleton Farms Festival Tent
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Links
Maestro Maazel is on Google+
Video of Maestro Lorin Maazel talking about the auction of his Guadagnini Violin of 178...
Owned by Maestro Lorin Maazel for 66 years, this fine Italian violin by Giovanni Battis...
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