Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ll be hearing I heard Cecile Licad this afternoon perform Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto.
She and the orchestra have gotten mixed reviews from the Seattle Times and the Post Intelligencer.
Neither paper took to Bright Sheng’s Tibetan Love Songs. Both seemed taken by the orchestra’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. Seems like a given to me.
UPDATE:
The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I am sure if you have ever been to a classical music concert, the question of what to wear naturally arises. For the last concert I attended, my mother was quite worried as to how she should dress. I had taken her and my older sister to the opera previously for which they dressed [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As I was driving to the dentist the other day, I got to wondering about Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. This isn’t unusual, as days, sometimes weeks before a concert, I obsess about what I am going to hear. In the present case, the upcoming Seattle Symphony concert provided me with the subject matter for my recent [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
The final installment in Marin Alsop’s Brahms cycle hit the shelves this week. I just got my copy. My tardiness wasn’t for lack of trying. Apparently, my neighborhood cd store hasn’t received their Naxos shipment. Deciding my mind would pester me until I got this cd, I broke down and bought it from Borders.
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday, for the first time ever, I took my eleven-year-old nephew and my mother to a classical music concert. Performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s training orchestra, the Civic Symphony Orchestra, and sporting $1 tickets, Orchestra Hall was filled to the brim. We three sat in the lower balcony and admired the large Romantic orchestra. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
A fuller analysis by the Seattle Times of the new concertmaster quartet. Recap: rather than hiring one concertmaster, Gerard Schwarz has hired four.
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
The Philadelphia Inquirer has an interesting article about the efficacy of classicl music downloads. The article mainly says what has been said before - downloads are good for emerging artists, more profitable, allow for a deeper catalog and are of middling quality (for some).
As I may have pointed out, I came to downloads and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
One of the more exotic pieces of music being performed this season by the Seattle Symphony is a collaborative work called the Genesis Suite. The story of the work’s creation, demise, and restoration is involved. In the shortened version, Nathaniel Shilkret floated the idea of doing a piece inspired by the Bible to Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Castelunovo-Tedsco confessed his interest in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2007 | No Comments »
I am quite impressed with the vast array of performing arts organizations in the greater Seattle area. It sounds like a veritable smorgasbord of options for evenings. Here in Chicago we also have a lot of options to go to. What is even cooler is that there is this new organization, in its fourth year, [...]
