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Review: Mixed Precipitation’s ‘Faust’ offers fine performances in challenging outdoor settings

This Pickup Truck Opera adaptation of Charles Gounod’s “Faust” will be performed around Minnesota through Sept. 15.
August 16, 2024
Justin Spenner, center, in Pickup Truck Opera's "Faust" Thursday in Loring Park. Mephistopheles (Justin Anthony Spenner) sings the praises of a versatile but highly toxic substance called "deemonium" in Mixed Precipitation's adaptation of Charles Gounod's opera, "Faust," being presented at parks, gardens and wineries in Minnesota through Sept. 15. (Photo: Scotty Reynolds)
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Musician deVon Russell Gray has composed music for Walker Art Center’s ‘Sound for Silents’

Composition will provide the soundtrack to a few films from the Walker’s moving image collection.
August 13, 2024
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Review: Minnesota Orchestra’s ‘An American in Paris’ showcases the ensemble’s versatility

The orchestra performed the Gershwin masterpiece to a screening of the 1951 film.
August 10, 2024
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Review: Mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski shined in Source Song Festival’s opening night concert

The high point was Reinaldo Moya’s “2 Canciones de Alfonsina Storni,” which showcased Osowski’s interpretive skills.
August 6, 2024
mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski, the founder of the festival, who is singing on about half of the pieces at Monday night's concert. Source Song Festival 2023. Photo by Steven Garcia www.stevengphoto.com
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Review: Christian Reif opens Brainerd’s Lakes Area Music Festival with a resounding Beethoven’s Ninth

The German music director amplifies the symphony’s joy with his intensity and interpretive imagination.
July 29, 2024
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Review: Minnesota Orchestra displays versatile virtuosity in ‘Summer at Orchestra Hall’ concert

Pianist and principal soloist Jon Kimura Parker showed great aplomb on Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major.
July 27, 2024
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Review: ‘Summer at Orchestra Hall’ opens with a high-energy concert of Mozart and Beethoven

Bulgarian conductor Delyana Lazarova also led the Minnesota Orchestra in music by Joseph Bologne aka Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
July 20, 2024
Delayana Lazarova  Conductor
Photo: Marco Borggreve
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St. Paul Chamber Orchestra names Gábor Takács-Nagy its newest artistic partner

He joins a team of other world-class musicians serving in that role with the SPCO.
July 18, 2024
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Review: Christian Reif opens Brainerd’s Lakes Area Music Festival with a resounding Beethoven’s Ninth

The German music director amplifies the symphony’s joy with his intensity and interpretive imagination.
July 29, 2024
Music

Review: Minnesota Orchestra displays versatile virtuosity in ‘Summer at Orchestra Hall’ concert

Pianist and principal soloist Jon Kimura Parker showed great aplomb on Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major.
July 27, 2024
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Review: ‘Summer at Orchestra Hall’ opens with a high-energy concert of Mozart and Beethoven

Bulgarian conductor Delyana Lazarova also led the Minnesota Orchestra in music by Joseph Bologne aka Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
July 20, 2024
Delayana Lazarova  Conductor
Photo: Marco Borggreve
Music

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra names Gábor Takács-Nagy its newest artistic partner

He joins a team of other world-class musicians serving in that role with the SPCO.
July 18, 2024
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