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httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM9ZRLXZBR8&hd=1 Discovered via @Oregon_Symphony on Twitter.
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Now that the symphony’s season is over, there’s no reason to despair! No, in fact, there are many reasons to be happy, for there are myriad opportunities to hear live classical music nearly all summer long here in Portland and surrounding areas. Starting in just a couple of weeks is the Astoria Music Festival (June
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Alex Ross has an excellent article in the current issue of The New Yorker, where he talks about the fine arts as a more reasonable alternative to other forms of entertainment in difficult economic times: The image of the classical concert hall as a playground for the rich is planted deep in the cultural psyche.
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(this came to my attention care of Sam’s excellent blog) Nico Muhly has an interesting game that he played with the New York Philharmonic’s season opener – which was: Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture Ibert Flute Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 They initially decided to try to make the program worse, which it seems they weren’t
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Style vs. substance the duality that’s on my mind as I write this. I’m at a loss. Why do individuals or organizations who do impeccably prepared, virtuosic performances passed over in favor of those who cloak mediocrity in the guise of a fancy mission statement? Does it really all come down to marketing? Are we
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I’m here in La Grande, Oregon with the Oregon Symphony, in case you’re wondering. And it’s been a busy first day. Yesterday my wife (a freelance cellist who plays often with the orchestra) and I arrived here at around 9:00 p.m., enjoying the great change of scenery and ecosystems that we continually marvel at when we
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I stumbled upon a post over at Classical Convert which has published lists of the Top 50 Classical Music Blogs using four different metrics – most of which don’t mean that much to me. However, I was please to see that this blog has cracked the top 50 in 3 out of the 4 lists!
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Anne Midgette, writing for the Washington Post, talks about her non-response to the music of Johannes Brahms, which she describes thusly:
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See the video after the jump (click on title above or link at left to view entire post and see video).
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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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This is the review that did it for me – New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini fairly wetting himself over the Philharmonic debut of conductor it-boy of this decade, Gustavo Dudamel.
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There are instances where a topic sweeps across the blogosphere, sometimes it’s referred to as a “meme”. I hadn’t heard of this before, so I checked dictionary.com and found that a meme is described thusly: a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of gene In this
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