David Stabler has an extensive (by newspaper standards) article in this Sunday’s Oregonian (available today on newstands or online) on OSO music director Carlos Kalmar and his effect on the Oregon Symphony. I’m quoted extensively in the article, and I’m sure I’ll take a lot of grief for my “we’re the dog” bit of frippery.
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Justin “Badbeard” Kagan, the Portland cellist neé coffee roaster and foodie extraordinaire, has been featured in today’s Oregonian courtesy of the O’s classical music critic David Stabler. It’s a nice write up, and you can find it here. Justin does a great job of explaining his coffee ethos, and that is worth sharing once more:
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Much has been written in the canon of music history about the virtuoso performer. Starting with the likes of Paganini and Liszt, there has been an unbroken line of artists who continue to stun us with their seemingly effortless performances of the most finger-twisting repertoire. David Stabler put it well in his recent review of
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In case you’ve missed it in your day’s rounds of the internet, Jon Kimura Parker, soloist with the orchestra last week in the Brahms d minor piano concerto, responded to David Stabler’s review (a markedly negative one) of the performance: We live in a fascinating time where reviewers cannot hide behind their newspapers as in
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Last night was a bit of a strange concert, at least speaking for myself from my vantage point on the stage. First of all, there was the sobering sight of empty seats in the hall – lots of them. It’s not as though this is a strange program – Brahms d minor piano concerto is
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David Stabler has a wish list for what he hopes will transpire with the Oregon Symphony in the next few years. I must say, I couldn’t agree more with his selections! (My only alteration would be a different Mahler symphony: either 3 or 6 are on my wish list for repertoire). Here are my own
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Let’s all send out some serious “Allez, allez!” vibes to the Oregonian’s classical music critic David Stabler, as he rides the Seattle to Portland Classic today – and he’s doing it on a team that is doing the entire ride in one day! Â That’s some serious average speed and a lot of mileage for
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Classical music critic from the Oregonian, David Stabler, gives a short, not-so-sweet synopsis of the state of the Oregon Symphony at the end of the 2008-2009 season: The symphony in crisis
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David Stabler has put together a video feature about this weekend’s upcoming Oregon Symphony/Pink Martini live concert recording sessions for an album due out in 2010. David Stabler: Pink Martini’s live recordings
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Robert Taylor, trombone; Photo: Torsten Kjellstrand/The Oregonian David Stabler has added more coverage of the planned trip of the Oregon Symphony to Carnegie Hall in May of 2011. There’s also a great collection of new photos of various orchestra members by Oregonian staff photographer Torsten Kjellstrand (I must say that the opening shot of cellist
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Here’s a post that was put up by David Stabler on his blog today: I understand why the musicians’ union exists, and I respect it. I really do. Over the years, I’ve had many dealings with it and while the general public has no idea what it does or why certain rules and restrictions apply,
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David Stabler wrote a review [not posted on the Oregonian's website at the time of posting] of this Saturday’s classical series concert featuring the Latvian violinist Baiba Skride as soloist in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto along with Sibelius’ Scene with Cranes and the Walton First Symphony. He was not enamored of Skride’s approach to the
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David Stabler David Stabler, the classical music critic for the Oregonian newspaper, has stated on his blog that he’s not taking a buyout from the paper, and is staying on indefinitely. It’s good news. Full-time classical music critics are getting to be as rare as hens’ teeth, and David is the only one left in
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Melinda Bargreen, classical music critic in Seattle for the past 30 years, has accepted a buy-out from the Seattle Times as part of a restructuring of the paper’s staff. You can read her last column here. Now read this blog entry by our lone full-time classical music critic here in Portland, David Stabler of the
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David Stabler offers an excellent compendium of links and photos that relate to the upcoming weekend’s Carter/Messiaen Project concerts by Chamber Music Northwest. Don’t forget, if you are or know of a full-time college student who might like the Carter/Messiaen concerts, they can get free student passes online. Stabler also highlights this Thursday’s (01/24) lieder
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