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and now for something completely different

by Charles Noble on May 14, 2009 · 3 comments

Anton Bruckner
This week’s classical series concert (the final one of this season, alas) features another major Germanic symphony, but a very different sort of work than that written by last week’s composer, Gustav Mahler.  Yes, this week it’s Anton Bruckner’s turn in the spotlight with his massive Symphony No. 7.  I have to say that, [...]

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brahms chamber concert

by Charles Noble on February 3, 2009

Violinist Jonathan Dubay and cellist Gregory Dubay will give a concert of chamber music for strings and piano by Brahms with pianist Janet Guggenheim. It’s a selection of some of Brahms’ best works for strings – the A major Violin Sonata, the E minor Cello Sonata, and the Trio in B major, Op. 8.  Should [...]

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rehearsal technique???

by Charles Noble on January 7, 2009 · 3 comments

Given that string players are most likely to complain about what they perceive as bad rehearsal technique on the part of a conductor, how about seeing what happens when they try to do it themselves?  Not typical of a string quartet rehearsal, but things start to get unwieldy when you’ve got eight players all of [...]

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notes on progress

by Charles Noble on November 24, 2008

I’ve been thinking a lot about the artistic progression of my orchestra over the last couple weeks.  You can point all you want to how the orchestra sounds under its music director, but to me the real test of the artistic growth of an orchestra is how they sound under a guest conductor.
I’ve noticed that, [...]

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instrument or house?

by Charles Noble on December 9, 2007

An excellent article from the Toronto Sun about the choice young string players must make early in their careers: top-flight instrument or house?

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