You’ve no doubt heard by now about the cellphone stare-down at the New York Philharmonic’s recent performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony between music director Alan Gilbert and a stubborn cellphone user in the front rows of Avery Fisher Hall. I was reading some of the comments to both the original blog posting about the incident
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I just received my copy of the Martingale Ensemble’s live recording from last January of the chamber versions of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun under the direction of the PSU Orchestra director Ken Selden. It was a great pleasure to rehearse, perform, and record these two master works
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Wow – how did the last concert weekend of the season get here so quickly? I guess it is a sign of my growing age that the years are starting to go by much faster than they used to. Perhaps it’s also an indication of how rich and full my life is as well. If
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Holly Mulcahy has a wonderful article up at The Partial Observer about the rash of program/artist substitutions prompted by the funding crisis at US orchestras. Here at the Oregon Symphony, there haven’t been any mid-course corrections, as such, but guest artists have had their contracts renegotiated at lower rates, and some pieces were not programmed
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The OSO’s music director Carlos Kalmar has demonstrated an affinity for the music of Gustav Mahler throughout his tenure with the orchestra, usually opening or closing a season with a major work of the Austrian composer. This year, at his other gig, Kalmar began the home stretch of the season of the Grant Park Music
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This week’s soprano soloist, Karina Gauvin. Photo credit: Michael Slobodian Two of the three works that we’re performing on this weekend’s classical subscription concerts feature the juxtaposition of words and music. And they couldn’t be more different. The first work is Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. It’s one of my favorite pieces of all
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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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Thanks for generous support from Symphony sponsor Wells Fargo, now through February 8th, the Oregon Symphony will be offering all seats for the remainder of the season at either $20 or $50 each (except for the Eartha Kitt concert). There’s lots of great stuff to grab tickets for, here are some of my picks:
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Oregon Public Broadcasting will present Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in their performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony (from a performance at Carnegie Hall this past fall) along with bits of performances by Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. Check out the OPB website for broadcast times (it will also be presented in
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I was up late last night, listening to the new recording on EMI of Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic performing Gustav Mahler’s great, heart-rending Ninth Symphony. I have to say that it just might be the best modern recording of any work by any orchestra.
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