Portland’s 24 hour classical music station, allclassical.org 89.9 FM, will be broadcasting our Carnegie Hall debut live tonight. If you live in the the station’s broadcast area (much of the state of Oregon), just tune to the frequency for your area (you can find a list of stations and translators here) at 5:00 p.m. PDT.
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If you can’t make it to the Oregon Symphony’s upcoming Carnegie Hall debut as part of the Spring for Music series, you can sit in the comfort of your own home and still be part of this historic event! Our own Allclassical.org (KQAC 98.9 FM) will be broadcasting/streaming the concert at 5:00 p.m. PDT
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The senza conductor chamber orchestra A Far Cry, based out of Boston, has released their first recording, entitled A Far Cry: Debut. You can preview tracks and purchase downloads (320kbs mp3 files) from their page at InstantEncore.com. Here’s the program of the album: Osvaldo Golijov – Last Round for string orchestra G.F. Handel – Concerto
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For those of you who come early to quartet concerts (why an hour early, people?) and end up watching the ensemble doing some last minute touch ups but not really knowing what’s going on, I posted a 4 minute recording of our pre-concert soundcheck/rehearsal for the opening of Mendelssohn’s A minor Quartet at the Salem
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This is the final post on the Bartók String Quartet No. 4. Enjoy! Bookends are sually two fairly massive objects which hold a row of lesser books upright. This would be an apt description of the two outer movements of Bartók’s Fourth Quartet. They are large in scope (at least in comparison to the rest
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This is the second of a series of brief posts about Bartók’s great String Quartet No. 4. Today, we look at the two quicker movements that surround the “night music” of the central third movement [you can read about that movement here]. The second movement, marked Prestissimo, con sordino, is for the most part a
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If you were not able to make it to the American String Quartet‘s Friends of Chamber Music performance this past Monday night, you’re in luck, as the concert is available for streaming online at InstantEncore.com. It’s a cool program: Haydn’s Op 76/2, Irving Fine’s String Quartet, and the great C-sharp minor Op. 131 of Beethoven.
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Friends of Chamber Music has begun streaming its concerts online at InstantEncore.com. [thanks to David Stabler for the alert] If you, like me, are kicking yourself for not making it to last week’s concerts by the fabulous French Quatour Ebène, then now you can hear complete performances by clicking here (Monday’s performance of Haydn, Fauré
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After a bit of blow back from my response to David Stabler’s blog post about some restrictions on use of audio/video clips of union musicians for a feature article of Tomas Svoboda’s world premiere this week, I decided to follow some well-intended advice from one of my colleagues and get my facts straight. So, as
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I added an audio example to the Mendelssohn A minor Quartet op. 13 post of a few days ago, as well as a sheet music page of the op. 9 song upon which the op. 13 introduction is based. Good stuff! Mendelssohn and Schumann: String Quartets
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I got back a couple hours ago from working on the great op. 13 quartet of the young Felix Mendelssohn, and it never fails to amaze me how great a composer he is without often falling into the Germanic need for angst and suffering in his art. One of my favorite parts of the quartet
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I happy to announce that I’ve begun to utilize a great online resource for classical music fans, artists, and presenters: InstantEncore.com. You’ll notice that there’s now an online “radio station” in the right sidebar. It features some of my performances in recital over the last few years, and I hope to add to what’s available
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If you’re interested in hearing the late show from Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, here’s the link from NPR, who broadcast the concert live on its Toast of the Nation show. Enjoy!
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So the inevitable has happened, Don Rosenberg, the classical music critic who was moved off his beat covering the Cleveland Orchestra, has filed suit against both the paper (the Cleveland Plain Dealer) and the orchestra. Hear the story from Cleveland’s NPR affiliate here. From 90.3FM’s website: Don Rosenberg was moved off his beat covering the
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We had our first rehearsals on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony yesterday, and it was one of those days where I was tired from the very beginning, but I thought I could at least dredge up nine observations about this well-loved work from an insider’s perspective. In the spirit of full disclosure, I cannot vouch for the
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