UPDATE: Stabler has an expanded print interview here. From today’s online edition of the Oregonian, courtesy of David Stabler:
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In case you’re on the fence about this week’s concerts (and why should you be – isn’t the Mozart Jupiter symphony and Strauss’ Don Juan enough of a reason to make it?), here are YouTube videos of the Britten Piano Concerto that is also on the program. The British pianist Stephen Osborne will be the soloist
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At least that’s what Bill Eddins says in his post from Thursday where he talks about how important it is for smaller ensembles to maintain that all-important personal connection with their audience. The larger the orchestra the more one can be removed from society in general, mainly because your life is wrapped up in The
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I hate snarkyness. But sometimes, it is just too fun not to wade into the cesspool and get your hip waders fully immersed. Observe, gentle reader, the following video: It’s a video from the 1998 Jerusalem Music Center’s quartet masterclass with violinist Isaac Stern and friends. The quartet that is performing is the very young
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Was trolling YouTube for cool classical performances (no, that’s NOT an oxymoron!), and found a hidden jewel: a 2004 Philadelphia Orchestra performance of Strauss’ Don Quixote with Yo-Yo Ma as the famous man from La Mancha, and my former teacher Roberto Diaz as his faithful sidekick, Sancho Panza. Not surprisingly, they both kick major ass.
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Part of our upcoming program this weekend, all centered around music concerned with the effects of war, is Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 4 in f minor. The symphony was premiered in April of 1935, and was given its US premiere by the Cleveland Orchestra in December of that same year. Vaughan Williams insisted
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You can surf over to the DSO’s website and watch their PBS televised return to the stage at the Max on-demand. Watch the video here.
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My new toy, a little mini HD handheld digital video recorder, arrived in the mail today. This means that I can finally do some video posts on the blog! This is where your help comes in. Send me (either via the ‘contact me’ tab above, or in the comments section below) your suggestions of
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Didn’t get enough of Hilary Hahn’s outrageously good Bach encores this past weekend? You’re in luck! She’s going to appear on the PBS Newshour tonight (October 8th) – check the local listings for your area for broadcast times. Here’s a video from the broadcast of her playing the Sarabande from the Bach d minor Partita
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For those of you who have been lucky enough to hear the wonderful Dutch cellist Quirine Viersen play the Dvorák concerto this weekend (and one more performance tonight), you’ll also get to hear her play the Beethoven Triple Concerto with OSO concertmaster Jun Iwasaki and pianist Arnaldo Cohen. Here’s a clip from the Netherlands Philharmonic
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Here’s a video that’s been going around the blogosphere lately – it’s piano rockstar Lang Lang playing Flight of the Bumblebee as an encore after an appearance with the San Francisco Symphony. The catch? He’s doing it on an iPad app, AND with the Steinway (at least towards the end). Pretty cool, but I think
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Here’s a movement of Beethoven’s not-so-well-known String Quintet in C major, op. 29 -
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I was thrilled to discover this vintage documentary of the four DePasquale brothers, all of whom played in the Philadelphia Orchestra – at the same time! I studied with Joseph, the violist, who was principal violist of the Boston Symphony under Koussevitsky, and then was hired by Eugene Ormandy, later being joined by his brothers
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This is quite possibly the best Rube Goldberg machine I’ve ever seen (including the famous Honda commercial from a few years back). Enjoy!
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