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After a long and difficult search , the world-famous Boston symphony orchestra has chosen a new music director , 34 year old Latvian Andris Nelsons, who is currently music director of the City Of Birmingham symphony orchestra in England . Nelsons will...
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A recent production of Wagner's opera Tannhauser (Tann - hoy-zer ) at the Dusseldorf opera in Germany has opened up a hornet's nest of controversy in the opera world . Outrageous productions of operas are the norm in German opera houses ,and have...
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I hate to harp on Greg Sandow and his constant complaints about how there is supposedly something very wrong about the world of classical music and that unless our orchestras and other classical institution change radically , they are doomed to irrelevance...
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The world of classical music has just lost one of its greatest conductors . The eminent British maestro Sir Colin Davis, 85 , has passed away after a brief illness not long after leading his final concerts in London . Sir Colin never fit the stereotype...
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It was only until fairly recently that the profession of orchestral and operatic conducting was an exclusively male one, as well as almost exclusively white . Was it sexism alone , or a lack of women aiming to make a mark in this difficult, demanding...
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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest composers of all time , Richard Wagner , who is also without a doubt the most controversial figure in all of classical music . He died in 1883 , already extremely controversial...
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Van Cliburn , who died last week at the age of 78 , was a penomenon of classical music ; the only classical musician who has ever had a New York ticker tape parade in his honor . He was the most famous concert pianist ever produced by America . Not the...
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The folks over at Every Day Fiction have done up my story "There are Those Who Have the Stars" audiobook style in their weekly podcast. A big thanks to Folly Blaine for digging this one up and giving it an absolutely amazing reading. Truly,...
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It's been nearly two years since the great American conductor James Levine was forced to resign from the Boston symphony because of serious back trouble , sciatica, arm tremors and other ailments . He has not conducted at the Metropolitan opera, his...
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Dear Mr. Gates : You have achieved great fame for your extraordinary generosity with your enormous wealth toward charitable projects everywhere . I would like to bring your attention to a cause which is very close to my heart and that of many other Americans...
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The Metropolitan opera has premiered its eagerly awaited new production of Verdi's grim but beloved masterpiece Rigoletto , and the reviews are mixed, as usual . The controversy lies in the production , which has been much ballyhooed since it was...
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Commentators on classical music are always telling us that classical music has to "change" , and change drastically , in order to "survive" and to be "relevant ". As I've pointed out here on a number of occaisions, composer...
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Recently, someone on a classical music forum I'm on put an old recording of one of the orchestral suites of J.S. Bach by the great German conductor Wilhlem Furtwangler (1886-1954) on a post citing it as a example of impossibly slow tempos and a hopelessly...
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I just scanned through my last real post to this blog and can't belief that so much time has past. The girls were six weeks old and I was trying to keep the book going by writing during my planning period. It was a good idea, worth a try at least...
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No one could say that 2012 was an uneventful year for classical music , or any year in recent times . So much happened, both good and bad , hence the paraphrase of the famous opening line of Dicken's "Tale of Two Cities ". The existential...
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