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SurprisedByBeauty

#2242
March 11, 2018, 06:06:09 PM
Here's a parlor game of sorts: Pick your Bruckner First Eleven. How does that work? Easy enough -


My Bruckner First Eleven: A Dream-Team Fantasy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2018/03/11/my-bruckner-first-eleven-a-dream-team-fantasy/#4301d0dd6e0e

Every click helps to convince Forbes.com to continue bothering with classical music coverage. Even silly articles like these.

SurprisedByBeauty

#2244
March 15, 2018, 09:37:21 AM
My interview with Christa Ludwig (in German, alas) for Crescendo Magazine:


https://www.youtube.com/v/C8St0mt6V6E

SurprisedByBeauty

#2246
March 21, 2018, 11:25:21 AM
On Bach's 333rd Birthday:

Classical CD Of The Week: Anton Batagov's Bach Is For Tripping



Every click helps keeping classical music coverage (of which I am sadly the only exponent) alive on Forbes.com. Which, even if you don't like it much or think me an ass, is better than it not being there, right?

Karl Henning

#2247
March 22, 2018, 02:43:16 AM
Quote from: SurprisedByBeauty on March 21, 2018, 11:25:21 AM
On Bach's 333rd Birthday:

Classical CD Of The Week: Anton Batagov's Bach Is For Tripping



Every click helps keeping classical music coverage (of which I am sadly the only exponent) alive on Forbes.com. Which, even if you don't like it much or think me an ass, is better than it not being there, right?



Nicely done.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

SurprisedByBeauty

#2248
March 22, 2018, 04:24:58 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 22, 2018, 02:43:16 AM
Nicely done.

Thanks! (I hope you refer to the article itself, not the shameless plugging.) It's an astounding recording. A writer/conductor friend drove me home late last year or so and wouldn't let me leave the car until we had heard this recording.  ;D It's something special. Also great for playing at night; lights out (alas, my better half isn't into night-music, so opportunity is limited) and being adrift in this music. Works like Einstein on the Beach.

Karl Henning

#2249
March 22, 2018, 05:30:23 AM
The article, of course.

0:)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Brian

#2250
March 22, 2018, 07:55:42 AM
For those keeping score: BIS just released a single CD with total timing 86:48, might be the new record. (Vanska Mahler 6)

mc ukrneal

#2251
March 23, 2018, 07:05:31 AM
Apparently, physical cd and vinyl sales are ahead of downloads, because of streaming:
https://www.techspot.com/news/73849-physical-music-sales-surpassed-digital-download-revenue-2017.html
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Cato

#2252
March 23, 2018, 02:08:14 PM
Why is it always Classical Music that drives teenagers and 20-somethings away?

In Miami Beach, in an effort to tame stoonts high on marijuana, booze, pills, and possibly banana peels, a local politician offered an old idea as "something radical" :

Quote (Kristen) Rosen Gonzalez, a Congressional candidate, made another suggestion: Blasting music that spring breakers would hate to break up the party on the sand. Perhaps marches by John Philip Sousa or some Mozart.

"I think we should do something radical," she said.
::) ::) ::)

See:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article206321904.html
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

SurprisedByBeauty

#2253
March 23, 2018, 03:20:20 PM
Quote from: Cato on March 23, 2018, 02:08:14 PM
Why is it always Classical Music that drives teenagers and 20-somethings away?


I'd like to think that, faced with perfection, they feel guilty before their maker.

Mahlerian

#2254
March 23, 2018, 03:27:56 PM
Quote from: Cato on March 23, 2018, 02:08:14 PMWhy is it always Classical Music that drives teenagers and 20-somethings away?

It doesn't have a beat, that's why!
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

Cato

#2255
March 23, 2018, 06:33:18 PM
Quote from: SurprisedByBeauty on March 23, 2018, 03:20:20 PM
I'd like to think that, faced with perfection, they feel guilty before their maker.

Amen!   0:)

Quote from: Mahlerian on March 23, 2018, 03:27:56 PM
It doesn't have a beat, that's why!

1/1 time (THUD, THUD, THUD, THUD, THUD etc.) or 128/128 (I am talking about you, Techno!  :D   ) is a rarity in Beethoven and friends!  ;)
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

SurprisedByBeauty

#2256
March 24, 2018, 01:56:08 AM
Quote from: Cato on March 23, 2018, 06:33:18 PM
128/128 (I am talking about you, Techno!  :D   ) is a rarity in Beethoven and friends!  ;)

We nearly get that in BWV 8.


http://www.youtube.com/v/Hfkq-S7Vis8

SurprisedByBeauty

#2257
March 25, 2018, 03:38:32 AM

SurprisedByBeauty

#2258
March 29, 2018, 04:13:57 AM

The Vienna Symphony Names Its New Chief Conductor

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2018/03/29/the-vienna-symphony-names-its-new-chief-conductor/#2c76f8bf2cdf

QuoteThe Vienna Symphony Orchestra has announced today that the successor to Philippe Jordan will be Columbian-born Andrés Orozco-Estrada. He will officially start his tenure with the 2021/22 season while working closely with the orchestra in the 2020/21 season as the 'Chief Conductor Designate'. Philippe Jordan had recently been appointed the next music director of the Vienna State Opera (which had been struggling to fill that position) and just crosses the street to continue his steep career-path.

Andrés Orozco-Estrada has been living in Vienna for the last 20 years, making the connections necessary to work your way up in that unique city. In 2009 he had become the principal conductor of the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra, ...

(Every click helps -- and every comment, correction, or criticisism is welcome)


Classical CD Of The Week: Szymanowski's Works For Violin And Piano

Karol Szymanowski is one of the great, usually underrated, often overlooked composers of the 20th Century; case in point his works for violin and piano.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2018/03/28/classical-cd-of-the-week-szymanowskis-works-for-violin-and-piano/
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