Iron Tongue of Midnight is 20 today!
- Read my first three posts, in which I introduce myself and blame Alex Ross (sorry, Alex!).
- Read my first professional review, which was published in SFCV and then lost in an unfortunate data loss there. (Sorry, everyone! I think I'm doing better now.)
- Read Joshua Kosman's take on the same concert.
And take a moment to rejoice in the continued presence, at age 97, of Herbert Blomstedt, Conductor Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, on podiums the world over. He'll be with SFS on January 30, 31, and February 1, 2025, leading Schubert 5 and Brahms 1.
Congratulations! Iron Tongue has been an indispensable part of the landscape for so long I'd forgotten there was a time without it. Here's to 20 more.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Joshua!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! And I see Blomstedt is leading a very similar program to the one he did 20 years ago, which from Blomstedt is no surprise.
ReplyDeleteOf course you mentioned in the review how Mozartean Schubert's Fifth is, despite its date, which is so: though Taruskin thinks it's some kind of palimpsest on Beethoven's Fourth in the same key, which is one of the more absurd things Taruskin ever said.
Yes, Blomstedt being Blomstedt! I wish he were conducting Nielsen.
ReplyDeleteHuh, interesting about Taruskin. Which of his books is that in?
Oxford History.
DeleteAnd of course, thank you!
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ReplyDeleteCongrats!
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DeleteMany happy returns (for us)!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Patrick!
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