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2024-01-23 14:36:12
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln CenterDavid Finckel, cellistWu Han, pianistDebussy: Cello […]
2021-12-25 05:23:00
[…] January 21 at 7:30 p.m., Green Music Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park; Saturday, January 22 at 7:30 p.m., Bing Concert Hall, Palo Alto; and Sunday, January 23 at 3:00 p.m., Presidio Theatre, San Francisco. This season, New Century will offer free admission to its popular Open Rehearsal at 10 AM on Wednesday, January 19 at Forest Hill Christian Church, San Francisco.For more information, visit https://www.ncco.org/202122-season/set-3-hope-leads-appalachian-spring--Brenden Guy MediaCMS Announces Contract Renewal for Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu HanThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) announced Friday the five-year renewal of the artistic director contracts for David Finckel and Wu Han. The renewed contract runs through the end of the 2026-27 season. Finckel and Wu Han assumed the roles of artistic directors beginning with the 2004-2005 season, and at the completion of this renewed contract, they will become the longest-serving artistic directors in the organization’s history.“We are honored to […]
2021-11-16 17:52:00
Regular readers know that I have been rolling my eyes at Music@Menlo's programming for the last ten years or so. The festival directors, Wu Han and David Finckel, work pretty much in the dead-white-European-male canon, even when there are obvious opportunities to break out of that particular line of programming. The pair are also directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Weirdly, the one time I saw them in SF, they played a new song cycle and Amy Beach's piano quintet, the sort of thing various people wish they'd do more of. CMS's season opener led to the following: Review: Chamber Music Society Returns, Unchanged, by Zachary Woolfe. Subhead: The organization opened its season with a program encapsulating a persistently conservative vision of the repertory. Chamber Music Society's Leaders on Balancing Old and New, by Javier Hernández. An interview that contains a ton of gobbledegook, including […]
2021-11-16 08:00:57
The Programmatic Lightness Of Being
It’s funny how the pandemic can make old conversation new again when viewed through the lens of hyper pragmaticism. The whole traditional vs. contemporary programming debate is a good example. Recently, the New York Times published an interview with cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, who jointly run the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In a nutshell, the couple makes it clear that traditional repertoire has more than enough artistic ...
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