Where do you go to study conducting? Not to the USA…
Caleb Young, a conducting student at IU, has sent us a short reflection on a loss of leadership in conducting faculties in the USA. He has a point. Baton students these days head to Helsinki, St...
View ArticleA magnificent production of 'Faust' staged by West Bay Opera
Otak Jump / West Bay Opera The sun comes up on Kevin Thompson as Mephistopheles, Elizabeth Zharoff as Marguerite and James Callon as Faust, from left, in "Faust," produced at Lucie Stern Theatre...
View ArticleKissin Concert on Tuesday.
Evgeny Kissin Concert. Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium) This concert commemorates some sad events in Armenia . Perhaps to ease the pain, the renowned Russian pianist leads a memorial concert at...
View ArticleThe maestro revealed: Kent Nagano marches to his own beat
The position is reputed to be among the most intense of them all. Add to that the incessant travel that has him repeatedly flying all over the planet. So how is it that Kent Nagano seems so utterly...
View ArticleGreed in the age of biotech
With its champagne appetite on a beer budget, Palo Alto's ever-surprising West Bay Opera now takes a mid-19th century war-horse and launches it deep into the 21st century. Last weekend, the company...
View ArticleCan you Handel this? Classical Music Festivals in Colorado
Did you know that Colorado’s actually home to more than a dozen classical music festivals? Totally true! Colorado Public Radio wrote an awesome article detailing all of the festivals, and even put...
View ArticleGreed in the age of biotech
With its champagne appetite on a beer budget, Palo Alto's ever-surprising West Bay Opera now takes a mid-19th century war-horse and launches it deep into the 21st century. Last weekend, the company...
View ArticleCrown jewel
I’m a long-time fan of the Opera in English series funded by The Peter Moores Foundation that started, fittingly enough, with conductor Reginald Goodall’s performances of Wagner’s Ring cycle recorded...
View ArticleYes, We Have No Trios
Trio Cleonice (file photo) By the time Trio Cleonice and Friends’ second season of informal, down-home concerts at Brookline’s United Parish Church closed on Thursday, word seemed to have gotten out...
View ArticleStudent contest winners share their 'creative reactions' to classical music -...
Since 1894, PUC has presented many of the classical music world's most important established as well as emerging musicians, including violinist Isaac Stern, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Budapest String...
View ArticleStudent contest winners share their 'creative reactions' to classical music -...
Since 1894, PUC has presented many of the classical music world's most important established as well as emerging musicians, including violinist Isaac Stern, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Budapest String...
View ArticleStudent contest winners share their 'creative reactions' to classical music -...
Since 1894, PUC has presented many of the classical music world's most important established as well as emerging musicians, including violinist Isaac Stern, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Budapest String...
View ArticleStudent contest winners share their 'creative reactions' to classical music -...
Since 1894, PUC has presented many of the classical music world's most important established as well as emerging musicians, including violinist Isaac Stern, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Budapest String...
View ArticleWalter de la Mare in song, Ludlow English Song Weekend (3)
Every child over a certain age who learned penmanship (remember that ?) would know Walter de la Mare, whose poems we had to copy out endlessly in longhand (remember that!) It's hard to believe that he...
View ArticlePainting of Johann Sebastian Bach returns home to Leipzig
Best known portrait of the German composer unveiled with grand ceremony at emotional homecomingAs the white shroud was whipped away, it was as if the great composer himself had made an entrance on...
View ArticleFrench Evening in Rockport
Sooyun Kim (file photo) During its second week of its summer season, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, presented “An Evening of French Music” at the Shalin Liu Performance Center. Drawing mostly...
View ArticleVerdi´s misguided girl still moves audiences
"Traviata": misguided girl, led astray, leading a dissipated life. Verdi´s "La Traviata": one of a handful of super-hit operas. Almost no season goes by without a staging with orchestra in Buenos Aires...
View ArticleMy First Reviews: CD REVIEW Magazine
STRAUSS The Virtuoso Johann Strauss: Paraphrases and Arrangements of Favourite Strauss Melodies by Rosenthal, Tausky, Godowsky and Schulz-Evler LABE (piano) (Dorian Discovery DIS 80102) TT: 73.31...
View ArticleJC Bach: Zanaida
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) Zanaida, Opera in The Acts (1763) Zanaida - Sara Hershkowitz (soprano) Tamasse - Marina De Liso (mezzo-soprano) Mustafa - Pierrick Boisseau (baryton) Roselane -...
View ArticlePerspectives: Why Miriam Hyde?
Perspectives: Why Miriam Hyde? Easy: because her music appeals to every aspect of my teaching and performing practice. Over the years, especially as a ‘student’ pianist, I always wondered if I was...
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