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Jay Nordlinger on a recital by the pianist Seong-Jin Cho in Carnegie Hall.

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Live Again: Music is in the air after a year of silence Ken Glickman When Spanish-born Octavio Mas-Arocas first came to Michigan State University last July to head up the College of Music’s orchestra program, he was a bit disappointed. How does a young, passionate conductor begin breathing fire into his orchestra if there is no orchestra to lead? Covid restrictions put a huge damper on his plans. “It was very frustrating for every single person in the program. During the fir...

Wagner’s Die Walküre. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Christopher Ventris, Ain Anger, Waltraud Meier, Linda Watson, and Tomasz Konieczny. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here. 1 pm ET: Copland House presents Underscored: Jalbert’s Crossings. Vermont-born composer Pierre Jalbert was inspired by the migration of people voyaging into new and unfamiliar places and traces Jalbert’s own French-Canadian-American ancestry. Crossings is bui...