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Blog Post Bax's 'In Memoriam' Played In Concert For The First Time.
Arnold Bax A Few nights ago the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra performed among other pieces Arnold Bax's In Memoriam , that was written in memory of an Irish patriot who died in the Easter upri...
Blog Post From Trash to Music And Back.
Concert Organist, Roman Krasnovsky spends his time between concerts and recitals and picking up the Trash in the Northern Israeli town of Karmiel. He performs both in Israel and abroad, but still nee...
Blog Post Rennee Flemming This Summer
via Intermezzo What more can I say! I am jealous - both of South Africa and of Renee Flemming
Blog Post Listen to Concerts Online
If you like piano concerts you'll enjoy this site of the pianist LURA JOHNSON as it offers links to piano concerts that you can listen to.
Blog Post Singing Is Good For The Soul!
I found this very thought evoking quote about singing at Oboeinsight A few years ago my friend and I realised that we both loved singing but didn't do enough of it. So we started a weekly...
Blog Post Bebe Baron 1927 - April 21 2008
Bebe Baron was, along with her Husband Louis Baron, one of the first and most important pioneers of electronic music. In his Obituary Peter Kirn says There are pioneers and artists — and then...
Blog Post Crossovers - Composing Musicians.
So we know that most composers don't play (maybe in private they do) and most musicians don't compose (maybe for the draw), Which is a puzzle in my mind. In order to compose you have g...
Blog Post Eye Candy and Cellos
I was reading Eric Edberg's blog and went over on his recommendation to the site of The Portland Cello Project . Its first impression is great and very visually pleasing. The front page has a sl...
Blog Post Dusty Ciggaar - Remember The Name
I first heard about Dusty on guitar flame , who like me discovered him on somebody Else's blog ( strat-o-blogster guitar blog )... Dusty is a Dutch wonder boy who can play the gu...
Blog Post The Mikado in Arizona
This is a Behind The Scenes Video made by the Arizona Opera Company  about the upcoming production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera - The Mikado  that will show in Tusco...
Blog Post Is Creativity Your Holy Cow?
We all have our Holy Cows. creative common license elrentapats Mostly, when you stop to think about them, and why They of all things, are holy - the answers you get are hardly logical or rea...
Blog Post The Heritage of Bel Canto
Anthony Tommasini, classical music critic of The New York Times, discusses the heritage of bel canto opera using the piano to demonstrate his points. I found this to be riveting, and I was ...
Blog Post Playing Piano By Ear - Step By Step Tutorial
If you have a good ear and like playing with chords you might enjoy this site . It is a The Jermaine Griggs Blog on Piano Playing By Ear. Well the site is not active but the lessons are there step by...
Blog Post Peter Greenaway- Do You Follow His Work?
This post is going to be short and sweet, and ever so slightly of topic. I want to send you over to Felsenmusick to read Daniels latest post on the wonders of Peter Greenaway I Just want to ...
Blog Post Klaus Huber to Receive the 2009 Salzburg International Composition Award
Klaus Huber was announced yesterday as the recipient of the 2009 Salzburg Music Prize/International Composition Award. It is one of the Largest prizes in the music world and is worth about 80,000 Eur...
Blog Post 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 ...
Blog Post The Artist's Region
Us Humans like naming things. We name streets and neighbourhoods and cities and states, countries continents planets... need I go on? Usually named after humans of influence (or Mythologica...
Blog Post Congratulations, Alex Ross!
I have been wanting to congratulate Alex Ross From the Rest Is Noise , of Whom I am a faithful reader, for being included in this truly amazing group of people by the MacArthur Foundation, and winni...
Blog Post Pedja Muzijevic - Sontatas & Other Interludes
For those of you who have not had the good fortune to hear him in concert or in fact know nothing about him - Pedja Muzijevic is a Bosnian born pianist, Who is known for his versatility and ima...
Blog Post Dmitri Hvorostovsky at the Edinburgh Festival
Dmitri Hvorostovsky the Russian baritone who is considered by many to be one of the finest baritones of the 21st century, performed at the Edinburgh Festival with a program and wardrobe in which ...
Blog Post The Deep Connection Between Art And Money
poto credit bourgeoisbee The notion of making art not influenced by money is unfortunately a romantic and misguided notion. A lot of the decisions as to what and Orchestra or choir perform a...
Blog Post Opera in The Park
Anything that brings art and culture to the masses is a really good thing, I think. Happily, I am not alone in this thought S.F. Opera simulcast sets ballpark record . Apparently, the SF Orchestr...
Blog Post Lakatos and Co
Lucky Jessica Duchen went to see Lakatos and co play with the London Symphony a couple of nights ago. If I said I wasn't quite jealous  I would be lying through my teeth, or in this case, t...
Blog Post Van den Budenmayer? Who's He?
I found an interesting interview with Zbigniew Preisner about Van Den Budenmayer. "Many people ask me about him. When Kieslowski shot the movie, he originally wanted to use some of Mahler's mus...
Blog Post Go Busk For Charity
As an artist and generaly creative person, I connect immediatly to projects that are unsual in there presentation, means and goals. Charity is not new or unusual, but Musequality is. From their ...
Blog Post How to Play Live With Other People in a Handful of Easy Steps
I found a really interesting blog by James Lee Stanley . In one of the posts he expands about playing live with other people or as I call it - the art of listening. When you are playing with ...
Blog Post Look and Listen
Electronic music in different variations has been with us for a while now, and some musicians click with it and some don't. Another thing that is happening more and more on the...
Blog Post Leonard Bernsteins Speech - Given In Harvard 22 Years Ago.
You owe it to yourself. Go, make a cup of coffee, take of your shoes, sit comfortable and plan for at least 20 minutes of reading. Click here on The American Scholar who have published Leon...
Blog Post Dancing Cameron Carpenter
I am not much of an organ fan.... but you have got to admit that this is a pleasure to watch. Cameron Carpenter certainly shows good showmanship and literally sparkles as he plays...
Blog Post Frogs, Sick Buildings and tenors.
Juan Diego Florez 'Ah, mes amis' in the Laurent Pelly production of La fille du regiment last year in Vienna. Juan Diego Florez recently performed in the Barbican, which is in c...
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