[ABOVE: Photo Courtesy of George Walker; BELOW: George Walker: Chamber Music, Son Sonora String Quartet; Angelo Frascarelli, conductor; Naxos 8.559659 (2009) (73:43)] AfriClassical learned of this release from our friend Sergio Mims, a classical music radio host at WHPK-FM, Chicago. On Thursday, Dec. 10, violinist Gregory Walker , Professor of Music at the University of Colorado Denver, is scheduled...
Photo by dboy via Flickr COMEDY Do you enjoy stand-up? How about dogs/cats? If so, Canada's Queen of Comedy , Carla Collins has something special in store for you tonight. Collins hosts Shitzu and Giggles at the Hollywood Improv tonight, starting at 7 PM. The event features Dwayne Perkins and Bil Dwyer and benefits the Bark Avenue Foundation . MUSIC Club Nokia at L.A. Live plays host to R&B/Neo-Soul...
Just announced!Category 95:Best Engineered Album, Classical(An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))Britten: Billy BuddNeil Hutchinson and Jonathan Stokes, engineers (Daniel Harding, Nathan Gunn, Ian Bostridge, Gidon Saks, Neal Davies, Jonathan Lemalu, Matthew Rose, London Symphony Chorus and London Symphony Orchestra)[Virgin Classics]Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From
Many people have been asking me "what's up with the blog? when are you going to post again soon?" I figured it was time for me to actually answer those questions.... I am officially in a blogging funk. I simply am not bothered about blogging anymore. Maybe it's due to circumstances. Venzago getting fired by the ISO's incompetent CEO was a major blow to me. I have yet to see a classical music...
Benjamin Britten was uncommonly precocious as a boy. He kept hundreds of early compositions, meticulously ordered, almost like an old man in a boy's body. Read about the Red House exhibition in Aldeburgh and the new catalogue of his juvenilia HERE. Now there's a new edition of Britten's letters from 1928 to 1938, " Journeying Boy : The Diaries of the young Benjamin Britten" ed John Evans,...
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Ahead of our concerts with her on 5 December, we, together with Southbank Centre, asked Marin a few questions: What do you fear the most? Losing my independence as I get older Which mobile number do you call the most? My family What – or where – is perfection? On the podium when everyone is completely “in the zone” and [...]
Last year, I marked the progress through the various days of December to Christmas with a tonal Advent Calendar. This year we will be taking a bleaker journey with Franz Schubert and Wolfgang Müller. There are twenty four poems in the Winterreise cycle, so each day of December a different part of the journey will appear on the blog. The original text in German will be accompanied by a suitably...
Which means Loddon, just south of Norwich, that great city where we spent a blissful few hours on Friday afternoon looking around the cathedral after dark. And for Londoners seeking purer air and wanting to swap an n for a d, there's one extra enticement to Loddon now that the adorable Katherine Howard, ex-Sony and EMI gal, and her equally good-natured husband Andy Walter, who I'm delighted to say...
paragraph class="noindent"> Until the crisis of modernism blew up the bridge that connected classical music and middle-class taste, a composer was expected to have a modicum of religious music in his catalogue; even the agnostic Brahms had his motets and Serious Songs. In contemporary America, most religious music . . .
Riccardo Muti conducted the second and last outing of a shortish program, consisting of Honegger’s Second Symphony and the “Eroica,” to a large and mostly enthusiastic audience.
Celebrating Mahler in 2010/11 In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Mahler's birth in 2010 and the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in 2011, Entartete Musik will be covering a number of concerts, festivals, new recordings and publications appearing during that time. to read more about Mahler on the blog. Facebook You can become a fan of this blog on Facebook. Come and join the other degenerates...
[Photo of Charles Darden at Bonchoeur.blogspot.com] Charles Darden posted a comment today on “Darryl Taylor Offers Condolences On Passing of Composer Hale Smith”: “I will always remember Hale Smith's encouraging words and advice to me as a young black conductor. He also urged to write and perform 'Great Scott!' the story of the life of Scott Joplin, which I continue to perform. Thank...
[Scott Joplin Piano Rags; Joshua Rifkin, piano; Nonesuch 79159 (1990)] Nichtdiesetone.blogspot.com/ Friday, November 27, 2009 “Someday I'll writeup what I'm sure will be a contentious piece about what makes Great Music, and whether there is such a thing at all. For now, I want share some brief thoughts about Scott Joplin , who was at once an extremely popular composer in his time (around the...
[“Hale Smith in about 1990” (Photo by Joseph Szabo, The New York Times)] NYTimes.com By William Grimes Published: November 27, 2009 “ Hale Smith , a classical composer who also worked as a performer and arranger with jazz greats like Dizzy Gillespie and Chico Hamilton, died Tuesday at his home in Freeport, L.I. He was 84. The cause was complications of a stroke, said his wife, Juanita....
NEW YORK – Patricia Racette had just sung her moving final notes in "Suor Angelica" and fallen to the stage. Around the Metropolitan Opera House, a significant segment of the audience was sniffling and wiping away tears. Racette took on the rare task of singing all three soprano leads in Puccini's "Il Trittico," three one-act operas of melodrama, tragedy and comedy. Her shattering performance as the...
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