Brian Wise

Soundcheck hit the ground running our first day in Berlin. After taking a little time to orient ourselves to the surrounding neighborhood (we're staying in Mitte, in the heart of the former East Berlin) we made our way to the House of World Cultures, ...

Microphones? Check. Recording equipment? Check. Passports. Double check. The Soundcheck crew is off to JFK and ready to embark on our reporting trip to Berlin. Our mission: to find out what's new and old, exciting or unique about the music scene in Berlin.

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Greetings and welcome to Soundcheck's Berlin blog! For the next week, Soundcheck host John Schaefer, producers Gisele Regatao and Brian Wise, technical director Irene Trudel and WNYC program director Chris Bannon will be pounding the pavement in Germany's

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BAM Next Wave Festival
Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov, a hot property right now, returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music with "Ainadamar," (Oct. 28-Nov. 2) a new chamber opera on a Lorca-inspired libretto written by playwright David Henry Hwang. The performance will be conducted by Peruvian maestro Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and ...

Whether you're an opera buff, a pianophile, a dance maven, or simply a lover of meat-and-potatoes symphonies and concertos, there's something for everyone at the 37th annual Mostly Mozart Festival. Consult our one-stop guide for what to listen for in the 2003 Festival.

Opera:

Il re pastore
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The recent surprise announcement that the New York Philharmonic will be leaving Lincoln Center and merging with Carnegie Hall has shaken the classical musical world. WNYC.org presents a selection of reports and opinion on the merger, including reaction from ...

Luciano Berio, one of the most important figures in the latter half of the twentieth-century musical avant-garde, died Tuesday in a Rome hospital, according to the Associated Press. He was 77.

The cause of death was not immediately available, but a spokesperson for the National Academy of St. Cecilia ...

NEW YORK (2003-05-16) Every year, New York City streets are renamed in order to commemorate the lives of local heroes or great inspirations to the people of that community. In a ceremony Friday, the City of New York honored Isaac Stern, the late violinist and Carnegie Hall President, by naming ...

A Manhattan judge ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to roll back fare increases for millions of subway, bus, and train riders Wednesday afternoon after a commuter group accused the agency of misleading the public about its finances.

State Supreme Court Justice Louis York issued the ruling in response to ...

NEW YORK, NY -- The Tony Award nominations for the 2002-03 Broadway season were announced this morning at Sardi's restaurant by film actress Melanie Griffith and two-time Tony winner John Lithgow.

Leading the nominations was Hairspray, the musical about an overweight high school girl in Baltimore based on the ...

Music Festivals are flourishing in the New York region this summer, from Lincoln Center's marquee events, to upstate getaways at Caramoor and Glimmerglass, to musical havens in the Hamptons. Below are 12 events where culture-starved urbanites can get their musical fix.

New York City

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NEW YORK -- Composer and conductor John Adams won the Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday for a 30-minute work for chorus, children's chorus, orchestra, and taped sounds that was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as a memorial to the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

On the ...

Slide Show: Zankel Hall and its construction

NEW YORK -- At a press conference Wednesday, Carnegie Hall announced plans for the inaugural season of Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall, the new 644-seat downstairs auditorium and educational center. Carved from bedrock directly beneath the ...

Gerd Albrecht, the German-born director of Copenhagen's Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, was forced to apologize for making an impromptu anti-war protest before a packed concert audience last week.

Albrecht stopped the orchestra in front of a full house in Copenhagen's main concert hall, and turned to a microphone to speak ...