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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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Stories have been circulating in the classical music world about the sad decline of one of the world's greatest virtuosos of the horn - the veteran principal horn of the world-famous Chicago symphony, Dale Clevenger, 72 . Clevenger has been prinicpal...
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Charles Rosen was no ordinary concert pianist . The protean pianist, scholar, author, teacher and thinker died on December 9th at the age of 85 . He was a true polymath ; an intelectual's intellectual , brilliant in diverse fields and remarkably versatile...
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Until a few years ago, WQXR was proudly announced as "The radio station of the New York Times . " It had been America's flagship classical music station for decades and had long been owned by te Times . But financial difficulties forced...
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Today is the 70th birthday of one of the world's foremost classical musicians - Daniel Barenboim , a native of Buenos Aires , Argentina ,son of Russian jews , but a citizen of the world . A child prodigy on the piano who grew up to achieve world renown...
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Elliott Carter , generally acknowledged to be the greatest American composer of the present day, has died at the extraordinary age of 103 in his native New York . Even more remarkably , he remained active as a composer until just before his passing ....
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One of the world's foremost composers, Hans Werner Henze (Hen-tse ) has died in Dresden at the age of 86 . Henze may possibly be the last in a long line of great German and Austrian composers beginning with Bach ,Handel, Haydn, Mozart ,Beethoven ...
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There's an old joke about a music critic who opened his unfavorable review of a concert with the line - The X Philhamonic orchestra played Beethoven last night -Beethoven lost . But serioulsy , this post will compare the similarities and differences...
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The other week I was able to borrow a huge set of CDs from a nearby library on interloan - nothing less than the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809 ) . Yep. All 104 of the symphonies by the great 18th century composer known as the "father...
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Yes, too many American orchestras and opera companies are experiencing serious financial difficultes and even some of those in Europe . And to make matters worse , the Atlanta symphony , the Minnesota orchestra in Minneapolis and the Indianapolis symphony...
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Lazy me ! I've been neglecting posts about Opera News magazine for a while . But here's a profile of the August and September issues . In the August issue , Washinton Post critic Philip Kennicott discusses his ideas of how opera may change in...
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My latest story, " Quittin Time " is live today on Every Day Fiction . Give it a read!
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John Cage was born 100 years ago today . He was either one of the most important composers of the 20th century or a complete and utter charlatan depending on what you think of his music . Some consider him to be a visionary genius and bold innovator and...
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Careless me. I forgot to mention that as a prelude to the PBS Ring this month , there will be what looks like a fascinating documentary on the controversial production by Susan Froemke, a noted maker of documentaries , called "Wagner's Dream...
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