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Lupanu and Friends Feed off Audience Energy in Return to Live Performance

Lupanu and Friends Feed off Audience Energy in Return to Live Performance

Review: Connor Chamber Series at Tate Hall  By Perry Tannenbaum While orchestral performances have sadly languished during the COVID pandemic, recently reviving in Charlotte and elsewhere in prudent baby steps, chamber music has flourished in online productions. Back on Memorial Day weekend, while the youth choir and orchestra remained sidelined for a second consecutive season at Spoleto Festival…

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On Your Toes for a Lively Mix of Mozart, Meyer, and Wirén

On Your Toes for a Lively Mix of Mozart, Meyer, and Wirén

Review: Burgeoning optimism could be found in Symphony’s most recent Mozart + Wirén concert By Perry Tannenbaum Unless a fourth wave of COVID-19 takes us by surprise and the 2020-21 season has to be “reimagined” yet again, Charlotte Symphony seems to be moving slowly, cautiously back towards full-sized concerts with their entire orchestra. Later this month, principal harpist Andrea Mumm will be…

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All-English Symphony Program Moves from Wintry Dreariness to Triumphant Jollity

All-English Symphony Program Moves from Wintry Dreariness to Triumphant Jollity

Review: Christopher Warren-Green conducts an all-English program By Perry Tannenbaum  Assailed by the ongoing pandemic, the postponement of vaccinations, and a midwinter cold snap, we must be contented when we receive short rations of Edward Elgar without pomp or percussion and William Walton’s Henry V without winds or brass. In fact, since Charlotte Symphony music director Christopher…

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CSO and Lupanu Debut a Harlem Nachtmusik, a Starburst, and Youthful Mendelssohn

CSO and Lupanu Debut a Harlem Nachtmusik, a Starburst, and Youthful Mendelssohn

Review: Mozart’s Night Music By Perry Tannenbaum One of Mozart’s most beloved compositions and the inspiration for the title of a Stephen Sondheim musical, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is perennially popular on streaming sites, CD players, and classical radio stations. WQXR’s annual countdown of audience favorites listed Eine Kleine Nachtmusik at Number 38 in its Top 100 for 2020 – ahead of Mozart’s…

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Barefoot in Carnegie Hall, Conqueror at the Knight

Barefoot in Carnegie Hall, Conqueror at the Knight

Review: Christopher Warren-Green capped the first full week of 2020 with the “Leonore Overture No. 3” and the “Emperor” Concerto No. 5 By Perry Tannenbaum

Celebrations of Ludwig van Beethoven don’t really need to lean on a convenient excuse. Just before celebrations broke out worldwide on January 1, 2020, commemorating the great composer’s 250th birthday, New York City’s WQXR played out 2019…

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Reservations Are Required – and Rewarded – at Charlotte Symphony’s “On Tap” Concert

Reservations Are Required – and Rewarded – at Charlotte Symphony’s “On Tap” Concert

Review:Charlotte Symphony’s “On Tap” Concert By Perry Tannenbaum

  Beer gardens, rathskellers, and brewpubs have traditionally encouraged their patrons to listen to music, lift their glasses in song, and maybe dance a polka, but for many classical music enthusiasts, Charlotte Symphony’s excursions to local breweries for their Symphony on Tap concerts may seem to be pioneering. Apparently, they…

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Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony Upstaged by Epic Paganini Concerto

Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony Upstaged by Epic Paganini Concerto

Review:  Italian Symphony By Perry Tannenbaum

Last week’s Symphony concert at Knight Theater, Italian Symphony, was a bit of a double entendre. Yes, the featured work on the program was Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, also known as the “Italian,” but all the other pieces on the bill had something Italian about them, even if the composers hailed from cooler climes. Other than Mendelssohn, we…

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