Tourte Cello Bow Sells for Nearly $200,000 at Auction By Matthew Westphal November 29, 2006 A “well-known European cellist” has paid $196,000 for an early 19th-century bow made by François Xavier Tourte, considered the father of the modern-day bow for string instruments. The purchase was made last month via Tarisio, an online auction house specializing
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I’m not sure what to think about this one – it does have Ed Harris, but it also has several cringe-worthy moments in the trailer alone. Can a professional musician really watch a movie about classical music? Quicktime required for this trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/copyingbeethoven/trailer/Â
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Found at Blockbuster Video today – how could I not get it?? Read a little bit about the movie here.
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A great post from a great blog – here’s a taste: It’s dangerous to roam the Classical Internet. Surfing and clicking from the discomfort of my ancient Hoosier sofa, it seems that every time I turn around, I run across yet another article entitled: Who (or What) Killed Classical Music? Or, more optimistically present tense:
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Nancy Ives, the orchestra’s principal cellist, is a HUGE chocolate fan, and we from time to time will present each other with new and exotic varieties that we happen upon. Yesterday, in honor of Thanksgiving, Nancy gave me some aptly named chocolate: Here’s a link to their website – enjoy! Have a Happy Thanksgiving –
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The Vermont Youth Orchestra, under the direction of Troy Peters, has been consistently innovative over this tenure – and here is a prime example. Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain plays his Voodoo Violin Concerto No. 1 in a performance from September of this year. Enjoy! link
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Only from the mind of a bass trombonist… http://www.thepetersonproject.com/Viola.htm I’m just waiting for this one to hit YouTube… Enjoy!
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I was looking through my file of clippings and programs tonight, and happened upon a program for the Super World Orchestra 2000. This was a gig that I got through our then principal cellist Margo Tatgenhorst. Basically, this company in Japan called S.T. Japan (which specializes in organizing tours for visiting foreign orchestras) put out
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A clip notable mostly for the fact that the subject is a local high school violist Griffin Gaffney (a member of the Portland Youth Philharmonic). The general subject is “musically gifted kids” and it’s a nice, warm story about a young person who is into the arts but not undergoing a spiritual or emotional crisis.
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Alex Ross has an article in the week’s New Yorker concerning recent Beethoven and Shostakovich symphony cycles, and it’s a model for what I think music criticism should be: informative, contextual and insightful. Find the review here.
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Well, we in the Arnica Quartet got through our first late Beethoven quartet together Sunday afternoon. With a piece of the size and complexity of the Op. 130, it would stand to reason that there would be places that we’d like to have done better, but on the whole, it was a reading that we
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God, I love Wikipedia! Found this tidbit in the entry for Bill Nye: The Science Guy (after spotting him on a tv show (NUMB3RS) this evening): On Friday, February 3, 2006, Nye was married to Blair Tindall.[4] Tindall and Nye had been engaged for five months. The pair exchanged watches instead of rings “as a
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I was randomly surfing around the Web last night and happened upon a couple great resources: first is the Library on Congress’ Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance. It is a page designed primarily for researchers looking for in-depth information that can be found in the major repositories of musical manuscripts and primary sources.
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We got a nice mention from Oregonian classical music critic David Stabler in his blog today – it was a nice surprise! Also of interest, Norman Lebrecht, the non-enfant terrible of music pseudo-journalism (imagine that Rupert Murdoch decided to start a fine arts spin-off to the Fox News Channel – shudder) decided to weigh in
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Not that it matters all that much, but here’s what’s been keeping me up late at night (I’m an inveterate late-night reader, much to my own chagrin). Blood Brothers is a gripping account of Time journalist Michael Weisskopf losing his hand to a grenade in Iraq and his recuperation and rehabilitation at Ward 57 at
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