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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger is a Senior Editor at National Review, writing on a variety of subjects. He writes about music each month for the The New Criterion. For the six years of the The New York Sun's existence (2002-08), he was a music critic for that paper. At the Salzburg festivals (Easter and summer), he gives lectures and conducts public interviews. For National Review Online, he writes a column--covering the waterfront--called "Impromptus"

The awards he has recieved have to do with human rights in particular. Some 100 pieces are gathered in Here, There & Everywhere: Collected Writings of Jay Nordlinger (National Review Books). A Native Michagander, Mr. Nordlinger lives in New York. View older articles from the Nordlinger archive

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New York chronicle | November 2009

On the Europeanization of the Metropolitan Opera, Alan Gilbert's New York Philharmonic, Paul Jacobs at Juiliard, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Salzburg chronicle | October 2009

On the 2009 Salzburg Festival.

New York chronicle | September 2009

On the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, New York.

New York chronicle | June 2009

On Chanticleer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Abbey Simon, Magdalena Kožená, and Christopher Prégardien & Michael Gees at Alice Tully Hall, Ricardo Muti with the New York Philharmonic; Bernard Haitink with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, René Pape, and Pierre Boulez with the Staatskappelle Berlin at Carnegie Hall; Emmanuel Pahud, Trevor Pinnock & Jonathan Manson at Zankel Hall; Bernard Haitink with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera.

New York chronicle | May 2009

On Maris Janson & the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras and André Previn's 80th Birthday at Carnegie Hall; La sonambula, Rusalka, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, & The Elixir of Love at the Metropolitan Opera; and the all-Handel night with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall.

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