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Latino Music Festival of Chicago Presents ‘Paquito D’Rivera in Concert’ (The Classical Version)

The final concert of the Latino Music Festival in Chicago will feature reedist Paquito D’Rivera, but not in a program of Latin Jazz, as you might expect. Instead, the December 15 program will be devoted to D’Rivera’s classical compositions, as well as works by Latino Music Festival co-founder Elbio Barilari.
By Louise Burton

  • EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with Leon Botstein

    Be it a concert that reframes musical war horses or one that gives music, herself, a frame (during the middle of a labor dispute, no less), the American Symphony Orchestra is certainly one of the more daring ensembles you'll hear play Carnegie Hall. Under the baton and brain of Leon Botstein, the ASO takes its founder Leopold Stokowski's avowed intention--namely, "that orchestral music shall remain accessible and affordable for everyone"--and gives it a new charge: Orchestral music should also edify the public at large. But as Botstein duly notes in this exclusive discussion with Classicalite editor-in-chief Logan K. Young, in the sound world of late Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Elliott Carter, intellectual heft never does betray the "immensely musical."
    By Logan K. Young

  • Off Broadway Listing: Michael Gambon, Eileen Atkins Star in Samuel Beckett’s ‘All That Fall’

    British actors Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins are currently starring in Samuel Beckett's All That Fall, which opened on November 11 at the 59E59 Theater in New York. The production is fresh from London's West End, where it enjoyed a critically acclaimed, sold-out run.
    By Louise Burton