Bill Stensrud, who writes the blog “Business of Classical Music”, has written a very cogent and convincing argument for the abandonment of the way that classical music has been recorded and marketed since the beginning of the recording age. I would highly recommend it to any and all of my musician colleagues who still regard
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There are instances where a topic sweeps across the blogosphere, sometimes it’s referred to as a “meme”. I hadn’t heard of this before, so I checked dictionary.com and found that a meme is described thusly: a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of gene In this
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ghostBikeBurnside-1.jpg, originally uploaded by BikePortland.org. In the bicycling community, there is a special way to remember cyclists who are killed while riding, and to remind motorists and cyclists alike to ride/drive defensively. It’s called a “ghost bike”. Painted white, often installed late at night, it is an eloquent reminder of the high cost of not
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This got buried amidst all of the intervening news of last week, and I thought that those of you who are coming to the concerts this weekend might be interested in doing some advance listening in preparation for the concert experience. So pardon the duplication of posts. This year I’ve decided to add a new
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Leonard Slatkin Conductor Leonard Slatkin, one of the most prominent figures in American music during the last three decades, will be named today as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Slatkin’s appointment, all but a certainty since midsummer, ends an unusually long search that began when Neeme Järvi announced his intention to step down
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I was reading this article in today’s Sunday New York Times, about the New York Philharmonic’s music director designate Alan Gilbert, when I was struck by the first paragraph, which describes how an orchestra he was guest conducting responded to the death of a colleague: ALAN GILBERT stood before the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic last month
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Courtesy of Niel Deponte, OSO principal percussionist Martha Herby, 1951 – 2007 by Niel dePonte, Principal Percussion, Oregon Symphony Martha Herby, 55, became the Second Flutist of the Oregon Symphony in 1981 and also served as the Acting Principal Flute of the symphony on many occasions. She was a graduate of the Eastman School of
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Today we lost a beloved colleague, wonderful musician, and cherished friend in Martha Herby. There are many from within the orchestra (and from without) who were closer to her than I, and who knew her longer than I, and who spent more time with her than I did. At times like this, it’s hard not
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From today’s NY Times: With the encouragement of the State Department, officials of the New York Philharmonic were en route to North Korea yesterday to discuss a possible concert in Pyongyang in February. The idea of a visit to North Korea, where the totalitarian government keeps a tight rein on the people and sharply restricts
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This arrived in the mailbox today, and it was a welcome bit of comic relief after the grim news of these past few days.
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Night Night. O you whose countenance, dissolved in deepness, hovers above my face. You who are the heaviest counterweight to my astounding contemplation. Night, that trembles as reflected in my eyes, but in itself strong; inexhaustible creation, dominant, enduring beyond the earth’s endurance; Night, full of newly created stars that leave trails of fire streaming
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This will be a great concert, and for $10 – c’mon, it’s a steal! $10 Friends and Family offer Spanish Splendor with the Oregon Symphony October 13-15 Carlos Kalmar, conductor Patricia Risley, mezzo-soprano Join us for an evening filled with mystery and surprise… love, passion and seduction. Featuring the cheerful, warm and lively music of
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This year I’ve decided to add a new feature to the blog for Oregon Symphony concertgoers: the iMix. An iMix is a published playlist of songs from iTunes gathered into a central location. For each Classical series concert, I’ll be publishing a iMix of the works on the program, all of which are recordings recommended
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Well, the first of our subscription concert weekends is done, and I’m left curiously unaffected. Maybe it’s always been this way – it’s just the range of emotions that I go through during the process of rehearsing and performing that has changed as the job has changed.
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His name is Greg Patillo – he’s a classically trained flutist from Seattle who studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and who developed some, shall we say, novel playing techniques while busking in the subways of New York City. He’s now better known as The Beatboxing Flutist. After the jump, some YouTube videos for
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