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Violinist Jennifer Koh (last heard with the Oregon Symphony in performances of the Brahms Violin Concerto, and before that the Szymanowski 1st Violin Concerto) has a new solo recording out on Cedille Records, entitled Rhapsodic Musings. It features works by Elliot Carter, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Augusta Read Thomas, and John Zorn for solo violin. Based upon [...]
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Robert Levine has an excellent post today that goes along very well with my post of a couple days ago. It’s a response to a recent posting by Greg Sandow, which you can find here.
Here’s the first two paragraphs of Robert’s excellent response:
Greg Sandow recently wrote a typically insightful and provocative post on “ways that [...]
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This week’s Willy Week features a rare article (from its rarely heard and seen classical music writer – at least at OSO concerts) about the Oregon Symphony. And what does this august journal choose to highlight? The fact that the OSO does not play enough new music (I’m assuming that they’re talking about commissions or [...]
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I’ve been pondering Ron Blessinger’s thoughts on the 2008-2009 season programming at the OSO, and the more I think about it, the more I wish there were not only works by living composers, but that there were works which have received their first performances at least since 1995. Why 1995? Because this is [...]
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