Today I rode in to downtown Portland to pick up music for the first couple concerts of the upcoming Oregon Symphony season. Can I first of all say how pleasant it is to visit the OSO library these days? Everyone is pleasant and helpful, and the mood up there is relaxed and professional.
Anyway, with the picking up of music there is not deny it: the season is almost underway.
Herbert von Karajan
I discovered via the blog Intermezzo a great series of youtube videos about Herbert von Karajan, the great conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1954 to 1989. Well worth watching.