I’m revisiting my previous post, in which I somewhat lazily dissected the season announcements of three orchestras (Chicago, Seattle, and Nashville) for 2012-2013, to a look at the soloists that they’ve engaged for the season (plus those slated for the LA Philharmonic as well, to add some more (?) into the mix). Will there be
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If you missed Wednesday night’s broadcast of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Gala concert on PBS Great Performances series, you’ll have another chance to catch it. It will be rebroadcast in HD in the Portland area on Comcast channel 710 at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. There are some great close-ups of David, and he gets
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I became aware of a recent LA Times article about the LA Philharmonic’s principal violist Carrie Dennis through Marjorie Talvi’s blog. Here’s the headline: Carrie Dennis is easy to notice in the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The sub-headline is: Yes, she’s the principal violist and deeply respected by her peers. But what makes her stand out
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Well, it’s been quiet here at the blog for some time, so I thought it might be a good thing to tell you what I’ve been up to. I went down to Los Angeles this past Sunday to take the audition for the 3rd chair viola position (Assistant principal) of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on
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Gustavo Dudamel’s opening night concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be broadcast on PBS’ Great Performances series Wednesday evening, October 21st, at 9:00 p.m. Here in Portland, that will be KOPB.
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Some very sad news from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, whose Principal trombonist, Steven Witser, died of a heart attack at the age of 48 on Monday night. The Ying Quartet is losing its first violinist, resulting in a quartet that will not be all siblings. The Baltimore Symphony musicians have given $1 million in voluntary
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photo: © Charles Noble This year Heather and I will be ringing in the new year with Pink Martini at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, presented by the LA Philharmonic. We’ll be part of the Harvey Rosencranz Orchestra, the extra complement of strings that Pink sometimes hauls out of Portland for big shows.
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Columnist Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times has written a great column on how to become an annoying, insufferable, classical music snob. It’s quite a funny read, and oh so true. My favorite bit is his concert experience with Mahler’s Sixth Symphony: I downloaded Leonard Bernstein’s version of Mahler’s Sixth and read the Wikipedia
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Bramwell Tovey – photo courtesy IMG Artists (click image for full sized view) Bramwell Tovey, music director of the Vancouver (B.C.) Symphony, has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. He will conduct the LA Philharmonic for six subscription concerts and one opera during their summer season at
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Carrie Dennis, the phenomenal violist who has (by the anything but grizzled age of 30!) already been Assistant principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic, and was just named as Principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic has a couple videos up on youtube. See and hear her for yourself
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Carrie Dennis, currently one of the principal violists of the Berlin Philharmonic (you might have seen her on the front desk for Monday’s broadcast of the BPO’s Mahler 9 with Simon Rattle), has been hired as the new principal viola of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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