Caroline Cooper

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Plácido Domingo Caught in Argentine Labor Dispute

Monday, March 28, 2011

Renowned Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo found himself in the middle of a major labor dispute last week between Argentina's Teatro Colón, one of the world's leading opera houses, and th...

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Cello Can Replace Voice? Chanticleer Thinks So

Monday, March 28, 2011

The celebrated San Francisco-based male choral group Chanticleer had a surprise pinch hitter on Saturday, as bass Eric Alatorre was replaced by cellist Laura McLellan. Alatorre has fallen ill with laryngitis.

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Classical Musicians Open Pockets, but Cancel Performances, for Japan

Friday, March 25, 2011

As relief efforts for Japan continue, the classical music world has rallied to organize concerts and events in support of the disaster-rattled country. Here in New York, the Japan Soc...

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A Chestnut Tree Grows Again in Brooklyn

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Brooklyn became the latest testing ground Thursday to bring back the chestnut tree, once a crowning glory of the American timber supply, yielding masts on sailboats, railroad ties and barn doors aplenty, that has struggled to survive a fatal blight introduced to the East Coast about 100 years ago.

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Do I Hear $135 Million? Lehman Manuscript Collection Preps for the Auction Block

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

New York stands to lose a large swath of one of its most celebrated music manuscript holdings, as the Morgan Library and Museum faces the potential sale of the Robert Owen Lehman Collection.

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James Levine Scales Down Remainder of Season at the Met

Monday, March 21, 2011

In yet another indication of James Levine's troubled health, the Metropolitan Opera music director today announced his reduced schedule for the remainder of the season.

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Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 100 Years Later

Monday, March 21, 2011

March 25 marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York's landmark industrial disaster that killed 146 of the factory's employees — most of them young...

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Hold That 'C' and Dance In Platforms? I Saw You At the 'Rent' Auditions

Saturday, March 19, 2011

The line of would-be Mimis and strung-out Angels snaked down 49th Street and turned up 9th Avenue during the open casting call for the Off Broadway revival of the musical "Rent" on Friday.

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For New York Theater-Goers, Rare Balkan Treats at La MaMa

Friday, March 11, 2011

WNYC

For ten days this month, the Perforations Festival New York comes to La MaMa Experimental Theatre. The festival opens Friday.

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Talk to Me: Celebrating 100 Years of Tennessee Williams

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

The centennial of Williams' birth was honored in a three-part series at the Museum of Arts and Design called The Kindness of Strangeness.

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A Millionth Subscriber for Spotify, a Million Miles from Napster

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

The online music service Spotify, which boasts a considerable classical music catalog, has surpassed its one-million subscriber mark. Considered a European answer to iTunes, it has be...

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Watch that Sword! Carmen Goes 3D

Monday, March 07, 2011

In the latest effort to bring a populist touch to opera, London's Royal Opera House has teamed up with a developer of 3D movie technology to offer a new 3D film version of Carmen. It'...

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Orchid Divas Take Center Stage at the New York Botanical Garden

Friday, March 04, 2011

"Horticultural theater" for the "divas of the plant world" is how the New York Botanical Garden describes the "Orchid Show on Broadway." The exhibition of over 25,000 orchids opens on Saturday.

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Detroit Symphony Musicians Offer to Return with No Contract

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Striking musicians with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra say they'll return to work without a contract. Cellist and spokesman Haden McKay says the issues will be worked out through binding arbitration, after a contentious, nearly five-month strike.

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Full Percussion Section Quits

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

In the latest twist in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra strike, the full percussion section has announced their departure. The news comes in the wake of the cancellation of the remainder of the orchestra's season.

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In Oregon, the Sweet Sounds of Crime Reduction

Monday, February 28, 2011

Classical music soothes the savage breast -- at least that's the hope of law enforcement officials in Portland, OR. A new bill now in committee seeks to install classical music speake...

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Protest Greets Performance of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Pro-Palestinian protesters clogged the sidewalks surrounding Carnegie Hall Tuesday night as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performed its third concert on a current eight-concert tour of the United States.

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Not Turning Back: DSO Joins List of American Orchestra Walk-Outs

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

With the Detroit Symphony musicians's rejection of its management's latest contract offer on Saturday, the beleaguered company has ground to a near complete halt. Yet it's just the la...

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Met Opera Announces Good Health, New Season

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The Metropolitan Opera announced its 2011-12 season on Wednesday. Amid plans for the second two installments of Robert Lepage's Ring cycle and a World War II-era Faust, the big news t...

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Racked by Visions, Chopin May Have Suffered from Epilepsy

Monday, February 14, 2011

Frédéric Chopin suffered from a variety of health problems, but one may have been overlooked until now: Temporal-lobe epilepsy. Recently published research offers a new development in...

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