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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Making the Rounds

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Tim Rutherford-Johnson tossed this week's meme to anyone who wanted to respond. That'll be me, for one. Total volume of music on my...
Tuesday, May 31, 2005

A Concert You Might Take a Friend To

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The International Orange Chorale of San Francisco is giving what sounds like a fantastic concert this coming Sunday, June 5, 2005, at 8 p.m....
Thursday, May 26, 2005

I Took My Mother to the Orchestra....

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...for an all-R. Strauss concert at San Francisco Symphony. Read her thoughts on the concert and mine . Updated May 26 :You can hear this c...
Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Really Bad News for the Classical Recording Business

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The London Appeals Court decision against Hyperion Records, in a lawsuit bought by musicologist Lionel Sawkins, will seriously affect Hyperi...
Monday, May 23, 2005

Sex and the Young Violinist

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A few weeks ago, I asked a newish friend what kind of music he likes. "Classical, especially Bach; rock; some jazz," he replied. T...
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Mystery Music

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Can you identity this charming excerpt, which is part of the "Hansel and Gretel" ballet that Ronn Guidi created for the Oakland B...

Take a Friend to the Orchestra, Part II

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My TAFTO contribution is up now! Many thanks to Drew for the kind words; thanks also to Zaka Ashraf for giving me a couple of ideas for th...
Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Civics Lesson

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A few weeks back, A.C. Douglas zeroed in on one paragraph of a posting by Greg Sandow, and used it as the springboard for 1) a lament about ...
Sunday, May 15, 2005

How KDFC Could Make a Difference

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KDFC could play a real variety of music, instead of sticking to the 18th to 20th c. tonal straight-and-narrow. There's a serious proble...

A Real Difference for School Music?

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If you're on KDFC's mailing list, or if you listen to the station, you know that during this past week, KDFC made a big deal of the ...
Thursday, May 12, 2005

Take a Friend to the Orchestra Month

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It's Take a Friend to the Orchestra Month at Adaptistration, where short essays related to how we can all contribute to audience develo...
Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Charles Rosen Lecture & Concert, San Franciso, April 23, 2005

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I read Charles Rosen's The Classical Style in the late 1970s, not so long after it was first published. I loved it then and still recom...
Saturday, April 23, 2005

Charles Rosen in San Francisco

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I'll be at Charles Rosen's lecture (11:30 a.m.) and concert (2 p.m.) at the Palace of the Legion of Honor today. He is discussing, a...
Sunday, April 17, 2005

Warhol & Music

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A couple of weeks ago, Greg Sandow had an interesting blog posting about Andy Warhol and his place in art history. I think Greg is on to s...
Friday, April 01, 2005

I'm back.

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Documentum 5.3 shipped yesterday, and after working for 18 consecutive days, I am now blessedly out of system release hell and can think ab...
Saturday, February 26, 2005

New to the Blogroll: Bill Fregosi's DesignerBlog

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Thanks to The Standing Room's rouleau des blagues, I find that Bill Fregosi, a shining light and voice of intelligent analysis on opera...

As Promised

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The long Robert Shaw posting, as promised a couple of weeks ago before the applause discussion got started.  I need to fill in a few details...
Monday, February 21, 2005

Classical Music Blogging In the Mercury News

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Thanks to Rich Scheinin for his excellent article on classical music blogging in the San Jose Mercury News. A number of us are discussed th...
Friday, February 18, 2005

More on Applause and Booing

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The discussion continues! At Adaptistration, an orchestral violist offers up an irreplaceable body part in favor of booing (and has commen...
Thursday, February 17, 2005

Broadcast of the Beethoven/Webern/Hartmann Concert

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Our local excuse for a classical radio state, KDFC, 102.1, will broadcast last week's SFS concert in full on Tuesday, February, 22 at 8...

Wild Applause!

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The ongoing discussion of applause and booing has spread through the bløgösphère like wildfire this past week - Alex Ross has some more rema...
Sunday, February 13, 2005

From Greg Sandow

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Email from Greg about this subject, used with permission. Let me say that I had no idea that anyone living on the east coast would have ever...

Dear Alex and Greg,

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You've both been writing over the last couple of months about how different audience expectations might make classical music concerts mo...

Beethoven, Webern, and Hartmann at the SF Symphony

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To the San Francisco Symphony last night, with my friend Mike, for a concert of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor"), ...
Saturday, February 12, 2005

Interlochen Encounter

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At Adaptistration, Drew McManus has been chronicling management and staff issues at the music department of the Interlochen Academy of the...