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Magnificat (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Magnificat will be participating in the second annual Early Music Musician’s Bazaar. Among the delights available for purchase will be CD’s, concert tickets, sheet music & lots of other fun stuff. The Bazaar will take place from 10 am to 3 pmon Saturday December 12 at MusicSources, 1000 The Alameda, Berkeley. It’s a great opportunity [...]
Classical Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Because Mahler didn't complete the Tenth Symphony, performance needs to be open ended, recognizing that we'll never know what might have been. What a conductor hears in the material is just as informative as what we might assume we know. That's why I found Riccardo Chailly's Mahler 10th with the Leipzig Gewandhaus at this year's Proms so fascinating. Chailly brought out aspects of the Eternal Feminine:...
Intermezzo (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Cherevichki / The Tsarina's Slippers - Royal Opera House, 20 November 2009 The Royal Opera House have chosen to bestow upon their new production of Tchaikovsky's Черевички (Cherevichki or Tcherevichki) an appropriately Royal title - The Tsarina's Slippers - in...
Edward Seckerson (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Just listening to Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror"..... this has to be one of the great pop records. Staggering Quincy Jones arangements/production (aren't they all') and the most uplifting key change in all pop music: "If you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself and make that.... C-H-A-N-G-E...!" And there it is - a sunburst of feel-good close harmony...
I'll think of something later (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
They told me Rupert Goold's new ENO Turandot was going to be set in a Chinese restaurant; I laughed. I saw the trailer; it looked as if it might work. I saw the show last night; I haven't experienced a more brilliant piece of totally reinvented music theatre since Richard Jones's production of Wozzeck . Sets by Miriam Buether, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, video art and design from Lorna Heavey and...
Entartete Musik (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded. The word fruit and the instruction to stir up in the collect for the Sunday next before Advent have inspired generations of house wives and husbands to prepare the Christmas puddings and cakes on this very Sunday. The Entartete Musik...
oboeinsight (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
It’s 12:10 AM and I’m still up. I got home at about 11:20. Most of my colleagues live further away. Some, in fact, probably just arrived home … unless they are still on the road. Cenerentola turns out to be about 3 hours and 5 minutes long. Longer than I expected. And this is with [...]
The Taruskin Challenge (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tinctoris defined the stylus mediocris, or “middle style,” as music that aimed for the heavens in its expressive intent but did so in a way that was more grounded, humble, and human than the lofty, “high” masses discussed last week. In the 15th century, the middle ground went most notably to the motet genre (remember, [...]
Susan Tomes: Pianist & writer (Free subscription) | yesterday
We were rehearsing this week in the home of a friend who keeps a pet canary in a cage in the kitchen. The canary was silent as we arrived and sat round the table, chatting and drinking coffee. But as soon as we went next door, picked up our instruments and started to play, the canary [...] Territorial display is a post from the Susan Tomes: Pianist & writer blog
Violinist.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
By The Weekend Vote: Certainly violin-playing is a physical activity, and in many ways it can be compared to a sport. But do you stretch before you play, as you would before running or other kinds of physical activity? Clayton Haslop's blog inspired this vote. In it, he talks about a mentor who advocated not stretching. Many years ago, I injured my neck -- a combination of stress and overuse rendered...
Yarnplayer's Cello Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
What fun! The youngsters in the audience didn't need much coaxing to come onstage and sit in the orchestra. There were extra chairs left, so some adults could happily join us as well. We did have a very special "guest conductor" for one music piece - someone chosen on the spot who had never, ever conducted before! She seemed a bit reluctant to take the podium - but maestro told her to count,"1,2"...
My Fickle Ears Dig It (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Adam Mickiewicz Institute's culture.pl website has a nice biography of Lutoslawski. The final paragraph is an excellent jumping off point for something I've wanted to write about for the last week or so: Despite all the differences between the works from the various periods of his career, and the fact that he was constantly developing his musical language, Witold Lutoslawski remains in our times...
Eric Edberg (Free subscription) | yesterday
I stopped at the grocery store this evening. Oscar Meyer bacon, which is my favorite supermarket brand (when I can get nitrate-free bacon I do, but it takes a trip to Indianapolis), was on sale for $2.99 a pound, so I bought six pounds (it’s usually $5.89 or so). “Use by Jan. 29,” the packages [...]
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | yesterday
[ABOVE: William Grant Still (Photo is the sole property of William Grant Still Music, and is used with permission.) BELOW: “ The Toledo Clarinets”; Greg Klaas, clarinet; Jocelyn Langworthy, clarinet; Shannon Ford, clarinet; Kevin Schempf, clarinet; Chelsea Tipton II, clarinet; Elliott Ross, clarinet; Greg Kostraba, piano; “Sonatina for Clarinet Choir” (11:38), Jerome Moross;...
mostly opera... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obituary in The Guardian by Alan Blyth (who died himself in 2007)Television portait of Elisabeth Söderström:
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