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For the rest, the most unfailingly satisfying musicmaking came from pianist Lambert Orkis, who found the perfect tempo and just the right phrasing and attack for everything he touched.
Chamber Players hit and miss Joan Reinthaler 2011
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Nor does Ma abandon his adherence to a kind of sunniness that illuminates consummate musicmaking.
Music review: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott at the Kennedy Center Anne Midgette 2010
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In truth, Ross can be so warmly enthusiastic about innovative musicmaking that he leaves you willing to try even the most arcane composers, people who make Gyorgy Ligeti and Philip Glass look like Handel and Bach.
Michael Dirda reviews "Listen to This," by music critic Alex Ross Michael Dirda 2010
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With all of the delights offered on Saturday night, one should be charitable about the fact that the musicmaking itself was a little uneven.
Audience enthusiastically greets imperfect NSO opening gala Anne Midgette 2010
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In truth, Ross can be so warmly enthusiastic about innovative musicmaking that he leaves you willing to try even the most arcane composers, people who make Gyorgy Ligeti and Philip Glass look like Handel and Bach.
Michael Dirda reviews "Listen to This," by music critic Alex Ross Michael Dirda 2010
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Like many conductors who pride themselves on their intellect, Fischer is actually pretty instinctive in his musicmaking; but the NSO didn't seem to trust him enough to want to accompany him through his changes of mood.
Iván Fischer concludes NSO tenure with program playing to both their strengths 2010
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At his best, he got the music to grow organically, creating something expansive from something very small, so that unpromising beginnings led to gripping musicmaking.
Daniel Harding conducts Dresden Staatskapelle with uneven hand Anne Midgette 2010
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"I would say that jam bands and jam band culture has been a giant influence on me in my musicmaking," says Alex Bleeker, 24, bassist of Real Estate.
For indie rockers, 'jam band' increasingly no longer a shameful term 2010
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Much of the musicmaking had the carrying power of hushed conversation, with the echo phrases of a solo flute piece by 18th-century composer Jacques Hotteterre all but inaudible.
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Indeed, scholar and pianist Charles Rosen believes that the challenges in Beethoven's piano sonatas led to the great shift in musicmaking from the home parlor to the concert hall.
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