IF YOU ARE PREPARED TO WAIT HALF A CENTURY, YOUR WISH MAY BE FULFILLED. The Silpakorn University String Orchestra at the Siam Society on May 26, 2015. Chetana Nagavajara The veracity of this statement was confirmed by the Silpakorn University (Youth) […]
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REFRESHINGLY CONSERVATIVE : THE ART OF KAMCHORN SOONPONGSRI Untitled by Kamchorn Soonpongsri Chetana Nagavajara Kamchorn Soonpongsri does not mind being called a conservative. And for once, I really relish his type of conservatism which I find exceed […]
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Reviews in English by Chetana Nagavajara have been collected in the volume, Bridging Cultural Divides, to appear by December 2014 บทวิจารณ์ต่างๆ เป็นภาษาอังกฤษของ เจตนา นาควัชระได้รับการพิมพ์รวมเล่มไว้ในหนังสือ Bridging Cultural Divides ซึ่งจะออกเผยแ […]
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THE MOST EUROPEAN OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS: THE CLEVELAND PAYS TRIBUTE TO YOUNG GERMANY (Franz Welser-Möst) Chetana Nagavagara Berlin, 23 September 2014 You don’t have to tell them. They know it already. Whatever they play, they won’t be able to fill t […]
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THE REMEDY WAS MOST EFFECTIVE: JOHN ELIOT GARDINER MADE THE LONDON SYMPHONY PLAY STANDING UP (Sir John Eliot Gardiner) Chetena Nagavajara Berlin, 21 September 2014 I have always questioned the wisdom of the saying attributed to Gustave Mahler: “There […]
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THE STAND-IN WHO STOLE AWAY THE SHOW (PART II): WHEN A NEW YORKER CONQUERED LEIPZIG AND THEN BERLIN (Alan Gilbert) Chetana Nagavajara Berlin, 17 September 2014 I have deliberately borrowed the title of the present review from my own review of a conce […]
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I HAVE HEARD ALL THIS BEFORE: SCHUMANN AND BRAHMS BY SIMON RATTLE & CO (Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic) Chetana Nagavajara Berlin, 17 September 2014 At the end of the concert given by one of Berlin’s “resident” orchestras, the Berlin Philha […]
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THE DEATH OF AN ORCHESTRA: THE CONCERTGEBOUW MUST NOT DIE (Mariss Janssons conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra) Chetana Nagavajara Berlin, 12 September 2014 While the Concertgebouw Orchestra was giving another stunning performance in the Phi […]
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THE PLIGHT OF CHAMBER MUSIC : EVEN BERLIN HAS PROBLEMS Chetana Nagavajara Berlin, 8 September 2014 One year has passed and nothing has changed. I am making use of the opportunity of the research residency offered by Free University Berlin to spend ti […]
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WHO IS GOING TO TELL GIDON KREMER NOT TO RETIRE TOO SOON? (Gidon Kremer) Chetana Nagavajara BERLIN , 7 September 2014 I was being rude and perhaps unfair in my previous review of September 3, 2014 on the Brahms Marathon that in my opinion turned out […]
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