performance

Georgian composer
...r of Georgian music. On the recent question of Sheherazade, besidesthe DGG CELI at 49mins plus, I have found a performance off air, with theSouth German R.S.O that lasts over 50mins John Carter Barsoo...
Please Have A Listen and Comment/Critique
...h blurring. Most of the songs are too long and I would cut the instrumental solos as they are not special. Performance. The backing is well played. The lead vocal is flat in every song, I think if...
Kennicott in Washington Post
...ntion of communicating with an audience). Why would someone who writes something esoteric even expect a public performance? Kennicott is just trashing the overwhelming majority of the already-smal...
Re-recording old songs. Your opinions, please
...ommunication and must be judged on that basis. It's well worth rewriting a good idea or creating a better performance so that it communicates more effectively. That said, I've watched people...
Best and Worst Intonation among 20th Century Violinists
...s D minor Partita, the Chaconne's final octave D is, well, out of tune; and indeed, Heifetz's entire performance of that mighty masterpiece has always seemed oddly scrambled to me. Grumiaux ...
Haenssler
...server? I'm listening to the Gielen Mahler 3rd and so far interested and pleased about this well-recorded performance. I'm disappointed in Gielen's choice to juxtapose sections of Schub...
St Matthew Passion - please recommend recordings.
...taste. I have never recovered from the older Archiv recording with Karl Richter, although even 25 year ago the performance was looked down on by anyone who claimed to know anything about Bach. The bri...
Volodos - Prokofiev Second Concerto
...e Prokofiev concertos, so I wasn't at all sure what to expect. To put it briefly, this was simply a great performance. It was powerful where it needed to be; it was also gracious and charming in ...
Giulini/Mahler 9th
...this more accurately and am hoping my language is clear. Any help would be appreciated. I love the playing and performance and the sound more so than Solti/CSO recording. And in other versions I have,...
( Iannis Xenakis in memoriam ), new work in MP3
...A beautiful thing in our time is the ability to call upon an 'instrument' which can create the 'performance' almost as quickly as it is composed. To me, there is that kind of &...
Gil Shaham
...fancy work with his bow. Complaints about Shahams playing will boil down to the individual listeners tastes in performance. If you agree with Shahams conception of the music he plays, he's quite ...
Lost work by Handel could rival Messiah
... Hospital and Messiah were always closely associated. Handel always closed his oratorio seasons with a benefit performance of Messiah in the Hospital's chapel, and on his death left the performin...
O/T: Read this article about Music Theory from Spring Day Music
...nes nearly every time. When I point out that a different inversion or a subtle change in melody would make the performance stronger, they always agree but they don't know why. We do because it is...
Ken Lanes observations on vocal technique
...hat had no relation to what I posted. I certainly do not offend anyone when I say that the totality of the performance requires a consummate understanding of the composition and one's own phy...
BBC Music Magazine
...nies (on two separate monthly disks, the 2nd coupled with the Sibelius 2nd), a Yehudi Menuhin 1943 BBC archive performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto (with Boult conducting), a disk of renaissance ...
Best subject for an opera? Your suggestion.
The best subject for an opera I have always thought was the origina l'Great Communicator, Shakespeare. 'Awed audience at my presentation of my 'Shakespeare' opera preview title...
Contentious: Genn Gould couldnt make it today
...is Goldberg Variations could still top the charts, riveting both the large and the rarefied audience; both his performance as an artist and as a nerd would still be new and unheard of, almost certainl...
Ken Lane teaching Vocal, Coaching, Acting techniques
I will teach a series of Master Classes on vocal technique, acting, and coaching styles. The best subject for an opera I have always thought was the original great Communicator, Shakespeare. &...
Call ll respond w my singing
...r so I'm crossposting it...the rest is the same as the lemonwood posting regarding this most surrealistic performance which I am sorry that I will be missing, as I am curious how anyone would eve...
Musical Interpretation
I am not a musician myself but just a great lover of classical music. I do have a tendency to 'get hooked' on various pieces of music and find myself listening to certain pieces over and ove...
Another opinion of Jarl Sigurds concerto
...and unjustified interruption by a modern drum-beat. As much as I think this concerto could benefit from a live performance, and as much as I would love ...
Easiest and Most Difficult Piano Pieces to Perform?
This is kind of a familiar thread. I agree with Peter, in that, while 'easiness' and 'difficulty' may well be difficult of definition, it makes sense to at least admit that the Pro...
Opera in Translation Refuses to Give Up the Ghost
...rry conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra, makes 'Tosca' sound so fresh it's startling. The performance begins, as usual, with the full- blast orchestral motif associated with Baron...
Gardiners Bach Cantata Pilgrimage ends in NY.
Hello All, Of the eighty or so concerts of J.E. Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage my wife and I could attend nine; one more is coming Dec. 10 in L'uneburg, North Germany. We were owerwh...
The Performance Rights Tax - Part 1
... and they are embracing the web as the fantastic tool it is to promote themselves. And it's possible that the Performance Rights Tax (if it passes) might even push stations to abandon the corporate m...
Rennee Flemming This Summer
via Intermezzo What more can I say! I am jealous - both of South Africa and of Renee Flemming
Last Minutes Notice
...ouses my curiosity, no end. Nicolas Phan did a great post about stepping in with half a days notice for a performance at Carnegie Hall. I am filled with awe! ...
Robert Henke & Christopher Bauder - Atom
ATOM Performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array ...
The Kings New Clothes
...ning things about this profession can be to see obvious signs of displeasure among audience members during the performance (i.e. yawning, sleeping, the rolling of eyes, head buried in the program or o...
Frogs, Sick Buildings and tenors.
...eturned he explain to the audience that the heat seems to have put a frog in his throat. He got through the performance singing as beautifully as always, but seemingly not as effortlessly. Appar...
  << Back 1 [ 2 ]

The Content on this site is provided for general information purposes only. Your use of the Content, or any part thereof, is made solely at Your own risk and responsibility. By entering this site you declare you read and agreed to its Terms, Rules & Privacy.
Copyright © 2006 - 2010 My Chord Space