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Once in a Lifetime
Posted in Chicago, IL on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Although there are countless orchestras all over the world performing an innumerable amount of compositions, I would imagine it a rare thing to be in attendance at a performance where the music, performers and audience click in a way that makes everything gel so perfectly that time stops. I remember reading with envy as reports [...]
Lyric’s Onegin reveals the real Tchaikovsky
Posted in Chicago, IL on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The Lyric Opera of Chicago concluded its 2007/08 season with Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece Eugene Onegin, an opera that is not so much about any particular action, but more about feelings and motivations. Because of that, the opera is rather static. As Tchaikovksy said in a letter to his pen pal Mme von Meck:
“Those [...]
There’s Always a ‘But’…
Posted in Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A little vacation to Seattle afforded me the opportunity to 1) visit my dear friend; 2) check out the Seattle landscape and its associated environs; and 3) hear the always-in-the-news Gerard Schwarz do his thing. To be honest, I was excited to do those things in that order. After having read so many things [...]
When Youth Is Not Enough
Posted in Chicago, IL on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Vladimir Jurowski, Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, 35 years old, has been making the rounds in America with the Russian National Orchestra, of which he is the Principal Guest Conductor. In the orchestra’s jaunts across the country, including both Seattle and Chicago, Jurowski is conducting the two Brahms piano concerti, the Pathetique Symphony [...]
Approaching New Music One Piece at a Time
Posted in Chicago, IL on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
If you are anything like me, new music, whether using the moniker of modern or contemporary, isn’t your cup of tea. Given the centuries of music to choose from, it becomes all too easy to just rely on the tried and true and leave music being created today for others to sort through. The test [...]
Chicago’s Wild Ride Continues…
Posted in Chicago, IL on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I have just received the subscriber guide for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2008/09 year, and just like in previous years, diversity of repertoire and faces, is the name of the game. Under the dual leadership of Bernard Haitink and Pierre Boulez, with the help of a long list of star studded guest conductors, Chicago has [...]
Posted in Chicago, IL on February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In response to my most recent account of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance, Marty Ronish, had this to say:
“I’m so glad you stopped in to hear the Chicago Symphony. As the producer of the national broadcasts for the CSO, I want my fellow Seattleites to know they can hear live Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts on-demand [...]
