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7 Feb 2012
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Under the direction of Michael Stern, the Kansas City Symphony’s high-quality playing carried its audience through an ambitious performance of Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”) last Friday in Helzberg Hall with satisfying results.
17 Nov 2011
Jessica Rivera News
Soprano Jessica Rivera “has carved out a place in the contemporary music world, with important productions of Golijov' s Ainadamar and John Adams's Nixon in China and A Flowering Tree,” wrote Judith Malafronte in a July Opera News revie...
15 Jul 2011
Interchanging Idioms
Soprano Jessica Rivera is winning a lot of acclaim as an inspired interpreter of 20th- and 21st-century composers, from Benjamin Britten (in whose "Spring" Symphony she joined Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony and was declared "radiant" by Atl...
12 Jul 2011
Jessica Rivera News
Soprano Jessica Rivera is winning a lot of acclaim as an inspired interpreter of 20 th - and 21 st -century composers, from Benjamin Britten (in whose "Spring" Symphony she joined Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony and was declared “radiant...
11 Jul 2011
The latest stories from The New Canon
Our chat with Jessica Rivera and Eric Lamb begins Monday at 4 pm. Sign up for a reminder now! This week on The New Canon, soprano Jessica Rivera and flutist Eric Lamb enter the ring to talk about the Summer of John Adams. Join the c...
2 Jul 2011
Music in Cincinnati
John Adams' "A Flowering Tree" opened in a new production by Cincinnati Opera June 30 at Music Hall in Cincinnati (with repeat July 2).  Directed by Brian Robertson, it was a true feast for the senses -- to satiety even, with video projections, ba...
3 Jun 2011
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Since the inception of the commissioning program in the 1990-1991 season, Carnegie Hall has regularly commissioned new works, ranging from solos to large orchestral pieces, and also works for jazz band. This continued throughout the 2010–2011 seas...
28 May 2011
Out West Arts
On Thursday, things finally settled down a bit for Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic . Over half way through the current enigmatically titled “Brahms Unbound” survey of the composer’s major symphonies and the German Requiem , th...
6 May 2011
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2011-2012 season. Among the vocal soloists who are scheduled to appear are: James Morris in excerpts from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Sasha Cooke and Gerald Finley in Harbison's Symphony...
5 May 2011
Jessica Rivera News
Having sung key roles in such major works as Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar and John Adams's Doctor Atomic, soprano Jessica Rivera continues to win kudos from East Coast to West. Writing for the Financial Times, Allan Ulrich summed up the singer's ...
5 Apr 2011
SFGate: Classical Music
A lot of ink has been spilled in the past few years debating the pros and cons of amplification in classical music, particularly vocal music. All the opponents need to do is point to the starkly divided recital given in Berkley's Hertz Hall on Sun...
4 Apr 2011
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4 Apr 2011
Financial Times - Music
American Soprano Jessica Rivera performs with great fervour but is better served by Schumann and Debussy than Mark Grey's commemoration of 9/11's 10th anniversary
4 Apr 2011
SFGate: Classical Music
A lot of ink has been spilled in the past few years debating the pros and cons of amplification in classical music, particularly vocal music. All the opponents need to do is point to the starkly divided recital given in Berkley's Hertz Hall on Sun...
1 Apr 2011
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Soprano Jessica Rivera performs the world premiere of Mark Grey's Atash Sorushan ( Fire Angels ) during her concert tomorrow night concert at Carnegie Hall. Here, Rivera explains how quotes from Rumi and Leonard Bernstein were instrumental in...
16 Mar 2011
Jessica Rivera News
Soprano Jessica Rivera made her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst on March 10 in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and Dvorak's Te Deum. "Hers was a voice of ravishing fullness," raved the Cleveland Plain Dealer. read more
16 Mar 2011
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Soprano Jessica Rivera's March 29 concert at Carnegie Hall —with pianist Molly Morkoski and Ensemble Meme—includes the world premiere of Mark Grey's Atash Sorushan ( Fire Angels ). The piece was commissioned by Carnegie Hall in commemoration of...
12 Mar 2011
Lincoln in Cleveland
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major Dvorak: Te Deum , Op. 103 Jessica Rivera, soprano ; Nathan Berg, bass-baritone; The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus; Franz Welser-Most, Conductor The energy in the hall tonight struck me as weird; I couldn't...
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Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Haitink / Rivera, Cargill, Sacca, Müller-Brachmann / Beethoven
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 - 8:15 PM
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Golijov: Ainadamar
Poulenc: Gloria in G major
Spohr: Songs (6), Op. 103
Salazar: Canciones Mexicanas (3)
Adams: A Flowering Tree
Golijov: La pasión según San Marcos
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Górecki: Symphony no 3, Op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
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