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Musical Perceptions (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
Yes, the first thing that may come to mind may be churches or other religious houses, cemeteries, museums, or a hidden valley, but sacred space can also be something spiritual rather than physical. A zone of conversation kept free of the troubles in life can be a sacred space, or a series of shared beautiful experiences. In all of the cases above, a sacred space helps build special relationships with...
Leonard Link (Free subscription) | 12/21/2009
This afternoon the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and its music director, James Levine, were at Carnegie Hall for a concert of music by two very different contemporaries: Edward Elgar and Gustav Mahler. We had the rarely-performed Elgar Sea Pictures, Op. 37,...
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
As many of you will have heard on the radio or read in the press our performance tomorrow will feature Edward Elgar’s orginal trombone, played by our Pricipal Trombone, Sue Addison. This will be the first time it has been played in concert since Elgar’s death. Below are some links to various press stories and [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
John Williams' Harry Potter theme has been voted the most popular classical music for children. But don't panic: Prokofiev isn't far behind Lucky old Prokofiev: he seems to be the man with the tunes closest to the bosom of the nation's youth. In a line-up of mostly hyper-romantic pictorialism, melodies that tell a story are the winners in this poll by Classic FM to find the classical music most popular...
Musical Assumptions (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
I was very disappointed a handful of years ago when I overheard a musician I really respect advise a conductor not to bother with "x" kind of music and to program "real" music for an upcoming concert season. Perhaps my friend was trying to impress the conductor. I don't know, but the phrase "real music" has bothered me for years. I come across the phrase from time to time,...
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
For the eighteenth program of its seventy-fifth anniversary season the Grant Park Music Festival under the direction of its principal conductor Carlos Kalmar gave two performances of Sir Edward Elgar’s monumental oratorio for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, The Dream of Gerontius.
Entartete Musik (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
If you want to see one of the more tedious and meretricious projects parading as art, go and visit One & Other, following the live performances filling the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. My ideas for a personality who should be placed there (in sculptural form) are:1. Emily Pankhurst2. Benjamin Britten3. Edward Elgar4. Thomas Hardy, Captain of HMS Victory (perhaps gazing fondly at
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