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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Long Overdue

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A hearty welcome to Anne Midgette, who finally joined the classical music blogosphere yesterday. What a relief to see her say that whatever...
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Frances Blaisdell

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I checked the Times on line this morning and found an obituary for Frances Blaisdell, termed "Girl Flutist," who died a couple of ...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

Hmmm.

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Friends more looped in than me tell me that 1) Christine Brewer has had knee problems in the past (and the Schenk Ring is staged on an unev...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Sigh. Big Sigh.

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At least I didn't move mountains to get tickets to the last staging of the Schenk Ring at the Met: Christine Brewer, Opera News cover ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Ada Lovelace Day

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Ada Lovelace was Lord Byron's daughter, a mathematician (to the extent that a woman could be one in early 19th c. England), and one of ...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Coming Up

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In the near and distant future: Switchboard Music Festival , San Francisco, is next weekend, on March 29, with performances by many luminari...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Emanuel Ax, Blogger

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Who knew? H/T to Alex Ross , who knew.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Playlist

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Various & sundry: Nazzareno de Angelis Vol. 2, on Preiser. One of the great bass voices on record, an absolutely solid, deep, dark, magn...
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Compare and Contrast 15

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Sarah Cahill brings A Sweeter Music to NYC, providing the rare opportunity for Steve Smith to review a program nearly identical to the one...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Mind the Remix

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Over at Molly Sheridan's excellent blog Mind the Gap , several bloggers, including me, are starting to talk about Lawrence Lessig's ...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Chora Nova: Kodaly and Mendelssohn

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Next weekend, we're performing a program of Kodaly 's Missa Brevis and some of the composer's secular works. Also on the program...

SFRV

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San Francisco Renaissance Voices also has a great program coming up (yes, it's chorus-concert season!): The All Allegri Concert - March...

Mostly Motets

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Between Cal Bach this week (listening) and Chora Nova next week (singing), I'm likely to miss this great-sounding Mostly Motets program,...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Cal Bach: Biber Requiem and Steffani Stabat Mater

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Cal Bach has an amazing program this weekend, of music you get few opportunities to hear: Heinrich Biber's Requiem and Agostino Steffani...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Doing the Impossible

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Murray Perahia demonstrates on his new CD that it's possible to make Beethoven boring. I swear I fell asleep halfway through the first ...
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It's Here!

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The new and improved San Francisco Classical Voice web site launched today - in the last couple of hours, in fact. It looks great, and ther...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The Church of the Schubert C-Major Quintet

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Here's something I'm not going to be disputing any time soon: It is my belief -- a belief undimmed by its obvious foolishness -- tha...
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Thank Goodness for IMSLP...

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....because while I was writing my review of the Takacs Quartet, I could look at the score of the Schubert string quintet . (I'll have t...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

Still One of Those Weeks

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Not to mention, what sounds like an excellent concert, "Music of the Chapel Royal," by the male chamber chorus Clerestory , on Mar...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

One of Those Weeks

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Too many possibilities: Berkeley Opera , the steampunk Tales of Hoffman San Francisco Symphony , Martha and the Ligeti. That would make a go...
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Compare and Contrast 14

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The Rose Art Museum discussions continue, in the press and blogosphere. I have still more self-serving bullshit email from Jehuda Reinharz....

Compare and Contrast 13

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The Met's new production of Bellini's La Sonnambula opened the other day, by Mary Zimmerman and starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Di...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

Youtube Symphony 2

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Apparently the auditions and voting are over and the experts have chosen the orchestra members. Details at the YouTube Symphony web site . (...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Bark Cat Bark

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Out of the blue, I got email from composer/songwriter Josh Todd, who works under the name Bark Cat Bark, suggesting I take a look at his MyS...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Albums from the Past

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I was tagged by Alex Wellsung , and though I'm not going to tag anyone else, I'll go with this one. If you read this and want to pos...
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