Traveling Music
November 25th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
Going somewhere for the holiday? Here’s some travel music. Hop on board.
Cry Me A River
November 20th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
They don’t make songs like this very much these days.
Socialist Realism
November 11th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
There are no “undiscovered masterpieces.” That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.
Mozart 34th
November 7th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
Those usually counted among Mozart’s “big-time” symphonies are the ones from after he left Salzburg for Vienna, Nos. 35-41. He knocked every single one of these out of the park. But the last of the Salzburg symphonies, No. 34, is at least a stand-up triple. Here are a couple of movements as recorded at the [...]
Simone Dinnerstein at SOPAC
November 1st, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
Simone Dinnerstein brings two things to the table: One, a deeply felt interpretive style; and two, finely detailed and transparent playing. Oh, and three, good programming sense.
Broadway Bach Concert
October 24th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
The Broadway Bach Ensemble presents its first concert of the season this Sunday, October 26. Michael Adelson conducts, Christopher Oldfather is the piano soloist in Bartok’s Third Concerto, plus Mozart’s Symphony No. 34 and the premiere of Adelson’s new work “Terminus.”
We rehearsed Terminus for the first time last night, and it’s kind of interesting. [...]
Symphonic Arts Concert
October 18th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
It’s fall, and that means it’s time for orchestra season. First up, the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble. Our first concert is tomorrow, October 19 at 3:00. The program is the Brahms “Academic Festival Overture,” Saint-Saens little-known but not-bad-at-all First Symphony, and the Horn Concerto by Gliere, featuring Karl Kramer as soloist. He really nails [...]
Giants of Jazz
October 12th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
Last night in South Orange a friend and I headed over to listen to this annual concert. It’s in its eleventh year and she’s been to most of them, but it was a first for me. It was a thoroughly amazing show.
The theme of the evening was a tribute to Slide Hampton, and along [...]
Souvenir
August 16th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
The composer Donald Erb died the other day, at age 81. A prof at the Cleveland Institute, he was big on the scene in the ’70s when I was first paying attention to “serious” music. “Serious” is in quotation marks, because Erb was sort of an exemplar of how unserious and fun that music could [...]
Masked and Anonymous
August 13th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Movies, Music, Politics |
This is a great and underappreciated circus/carnival of a political film. If you’re the kind of person (like me) who enjoys the occasional movie that’s less about plot than about imagery and symbolism, this is for you.
Whistle Down The Wind
August 1st, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
I was listening to this beautiful and melancholy Tom Waits ballad in the car last night…
I’ve grown up here now
All of my life
But I dreamed
Someday I’d go
Where blue eyed girls
And red guitars and
Naked rivers flowI’m not all I thought I’d be
I always stayed around
I’ve been as far as Mercy and Grand
Frozen to the ground
Listening to Stravinsky
July 31st, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
A rundown of what makes some of his music tick, with some nice (and short) excerpts for your listening pleasure.
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