While not officially part of the festival, Big Train will be playing four sets between 3 and 7 p.m. at Scotland Yard in Hoboken. If you find yourself in Hoboken on Sunday, September 24, tear yourself away from the nobodys playing on the big stages for a little while and stop by and say hello.
The Times’ story about Dylan’s borrowing of lines from a Civil War-era poet may find its way into your paper this morning. Don’t fall for the premise: The history of the creative arts is the story of one artist building on the works of another. Allusions, quotations, and borrowings are what makes literature, and especially, music so rewarding.
Well whose fault is that? A fine review of Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971 (see also the petulant rebuttal by Robert Craft) closes with the thought, “The composer George Perle observed when Stravinsky died that the world was without a great composer for the first time in six hundred years. It still [...]
If you’re an XM subscriber, check out the ’60s channel the next few days as they roll through every charted song of the decade in chron order. As of now, they’re in May 1968…
He of the amazing high register succumbed to kidney failure earlier today. There will be plenty of ink from people who knew him, but I can share one indirect anecdote. When I was in college, I studied trumpet with a member of the Cleveland Orchestra. I’d gone to Severance Hall one weekend to hear them [...]
Picking up a nice bottle of red to go with my steak tonight, the wine merchant here in Maplewood got my attention. Usually they’ve got a Brahms symphony on, but this time it was Stravinsky’s Orpheus. Now there’s something you don’t hear in a retail establishment every day. It got me too looking for I.S. blog resources, where I found a nice piece about his Variations. Here’s to sophisticated taste.
A free concert, August 20 at 3pm, Template B’Nai Jeshurun, 1025 South Orange Ave., Short Hills, NJ, with music of Chabrier, Richard Strauss and Robert Schumann.
Someone at the Indiana University Music School Library has been busy. They’ve been scanning in public-domain scores and publishing them as pdfs for all on their site. Despite being in the “early developmental” phase, they have 73 different operas, some 40 symphonies, many other orchestral works as well as lieder, chamber music and piano music. [...]
Three candidates for worst music video ever. If you can watch any of these through to the end, you’re tougher than I am.
The Musica Bella orchestra is doing a free concert Saturday July 8 at 6pm, at the Riverside Clay Tennis Courts, Riverside Park at 96th Street, New York. On the program are the overtures to Idomeneo and The Marriage of Figaro, along with the 36th and 39th symphonies. Did I mention it’s free? Donations are still [...]
The logistics of a concert-in-the-park can be daunting. What are you going to do with forty musicians and all their gear when the weather changes suddenly?
One of M/SO’s leading musicians has posted video, and lots of it, from a number of recent performances. Don’t miss the exciting 2006 show, with Emotional Rex’s, well, emotional return.
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