See you next year, and best wishes for a happy and prosperous new year!
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December 2007
Some recent items for your consideration: Detroit Confident in Slatkin – from the Detroit Free Press Life and Death – is length of life everything for a composer?, from the New York Times Broader Audience for Classical Radio – classical radio done right – from the Chicago Tribune Changes at Utah Symphony and Opera? –
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Arguably one of the great violists of the 20th/21st century, Kim Kashkashian has made many critically-acclaimed recordings (almost all on ECM New Series) of both the standard repertoire and new works, many written especially for her. Born in Detroit, she was a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Md., but ended up spending much
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James Bash has broken the story that Molly Barth, flute professor at Willamette University (and also a frequent substitute/extra with the OSO as well as with fEARnoMusic) has been nominated for a Grammy award. She was nominated as a member of the contemporary ensemble eighth blackbird, of which I believe she was a founding member.
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I added to the recent post about David Stabler’s list of the best classical events of 2007 to include the joint performance by Third Angle and fEARnoMusic. Check out the expanded post here.
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In the upcoming Sunday edition of the New York Times, several letters are printed in the Arts section – you can read the complete letters (as printed) here. Here are some of the best parts of some of them:
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The Seattle Times’ classical music critic Melinda Bargreen reports on the bizarre classical music news that occurred around the world in 2007. Unfortunately (and am I sensing a pattern here?) she neglected to mention a couple items from her own backyard:
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John Terauds, the classical music critic for the Toronto Star, writes in a recent column that younger audiences are turned off by crossover efforts, and just want the “straight stuff”.
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David Stabler David Stabler, the classical music critic of the Oregonian newspaper, has listed his top classical music happenings of 2007.
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photo credit: David Shankbone Double-bassist Jason Heath gives an exposé on life in the “pit” (the lowered area in front and beneath the stage which holds the orchestra during shows, ballets, and operas. It’s some pretty extreme stuff, including dancing, yelling, boozing, watching television – you get the picture (and if you don’t read the
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Allan Kozinn of the New York Times offers his solutions to the lack of music curriculum in schools. His main one: go back 40 years and do it as they did – as an integral part of the complete curriculum, from K to 12.
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There is a series of emails that have become public due to their inclusion in the mayor of Jacksonville’s public email file. The indefatigable Drew McManus has collected all of them in one place for interested parties to peruse at their leisure. Take a look and draw your own conclusions.
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Bartók in 1929 [courtesy of wikipedia] One of the great works of the 20th century, Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin, gets its first performance in Portland in over 30 years this January 12 – 14, 2008 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. The concert will feature supertitles projected over the orchestra to illustrate the precise stage directions
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I’m happy to announce that this blog has made the list of top-50 blogs (by Google’s count) on classical music (#40 to be exact). Thanks for reading – and linking! See the complete list here.
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