I’m playing as a member of the Harvey Rosencrantz Orchestra with Pink Martini this weekend. Tonight was a private event for Standard Insurance, and tomorrow we’ve got two New Year’s Eve shows (7:00 and 10:30 p.m.) I’ll take my camera tomorrow, but for now you get to see my access badge.
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I got to know Naoko Shimizu at Tanglewood in 1994. We were both fellows at the Tanglewood Music Center. I did not know her well, but there were only 12 violas there that summer, and so everyone knew each other at least a little. One of the 8 weeks we were there, Samuel Rhodes (violist
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The Oregonian received some letters (judging by the fact that they printed three of them, there must have been a lot of letters received) in response to David Stabler’s interview of Elaine Calder, the consultant hired by the symphony to evaluate and fix what ails it. Here is a link to the letters. I’ve selected
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happy holidays, all!, originally uploaded by nobleviola. Happy Holidays to all of our friends and family around the country and the world – here’s to a more peaceful and loving 2007.
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OSO violinist Inés Voglar is from Venezuela and was educated through the huge “system” of music education that encompasses the entire nation. She went down during our Christmas break to play the Bruch Violin Concerto with her old youth orchestra. You can see a clip here.
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Just caught the first salvos of blogosphere responses to the Oregonian interview with Elaine Calder, the consultant hired by the Oregon Symphony. The responses so far are not good, and how could they be, given the headline presented in the Playbill Arts story on the interview: Consultant Suggests Oregon Symphony May Play Too Much Classical
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Alexander Markov-Paganini Caprice nr 5 This is just amazing – check out the up-bow and down-bow staccato mid-way through the piece. Cheesy production, but phenomenal playing!
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Hagen Quartet plays Ravel One of my favorite quartets playing one of my favorite quartets (1st mvt).
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Gilles Apap plays Mozart The cadenza to the third movement of the G major concerto. Must be seen/heard to be believed. Wonderful, someone we should get to the OSO one of these days.
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First, take a look at this excellent blog entry by composer Matthew Guerrieri concerning the recent news that Bank of America is pulling its funding for Boston’s Bank of America Celebrity Series which includes the venerable classical series at Jordan Hall. Then come back and let’s talk. This is the paragraph I find most telling,
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We had the great fortune that two of our newest musicians, violists Jen Arnold and Leah Ilem, had the inspiration to put together a huge holiday extravaganza for us this year (please note that there were violists responsible the merriment). It’s been a long time since the symphony musicians have had a party like this,
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Soho the Dog dug up some tidbits from the venerable larousse gastronomique, namely dishes named after composers, and has made up some new variants of his own – good stuff on a super dreary day like today!
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To a dear friend and fabulous musician and person – congratulations! It makes me have faith in the system once again. OSO cellist Una O’Riordan has won a job with the Detroit Symphony!
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I’ll beat the bandwagon and start off my list of the best things I’ve heard in 2006: Krisztina Szabó – mezzo-soprano, singing opera arias from Handel’s Ariodante and Alcina. It really is the golden age of the mezzo these day, Ms. Szabó is a fine example. Her rendition of Scherza infida from Ariodante was a
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I found this link via The Oregonian‘s classical music critic David Stabler’s blog. Very interesting reading. Basically, Time Out New York put together a panel of critics to evaluate the major critics in New York City in all major areas, including classical music. Our own colleague in the blogosphere, Alex Ross, rated #1 in this
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