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Ax, Kavakos & Ma at Carnegie Hall – Beethoven

Prior to this evening, Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma last performed together at Carnegie Hall on March 4, 2020, with a Beethoven program, eight days before the venue closed for eighteen months due to the pandemic. Now the threesome was back with more Beethoven, preceded by the Ukrainian National Anthem. The audience sprang to its feet …

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New York Philharmonic – Jaap van Zweden conducts Dvořák 7 & Joan Tower’s 1920 / 2019; Emanuel Ax plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto K453

With this program’s opener, Joan Tower’s 1920 / 2019, the New York Philharmonic resumed Project 19, an initiative commissioning nineteen women to compose chamber and orchestra works to celebrate the centenary of the passage of the nineteenth amendment to the US Constitution, which extended voting rights to women. The piece’s palindrome-like title references two years – the …

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