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Blog Post Klaus Huber to Receive the 2009 Salzburg International Composition Award by Kimberly
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 The Performance Rights Tax - Part 1 by Zippybackflash
Musicians and music fans across the country are all witnessing a historic event: the slow, agonizing death spiral of the traditional recording industry. To understand where we are today, we need t...
Blog Post Peter Greenaway- Do You Follow His Work? by Kimberly
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 To Memorize or Not to Memorize - That Is The Question by Kimberly
What do you think of the need to memorize music? Is it essential, or is playing it well while reading it good enough? Personally, I think memorizing music shouldn't be a goal in itself, though it wo...
Blog Post New York City Opera in Dire Straits by Kimberly
From the NY Times : Due to the new financial situation we find ourselves in, The New York City Opera has had to exchange all it wonderful new plans of renewal and makeover for a more Conservati...
Blog Post The Artist's Region by Kimberly
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 Same Lady - Different Dress.. by Kimberly
Tosca's Historical setting is very specific - June 1800, in the aftermath of Napoleon's victory ant the battle of Marngo. Puccini took great care in researching and reproducing this period on stage. ...
Blog Post More Music and Money Misshaps by Kimberly
I thought this was a bit sad Hedge Fund Executive Guilty of Securities Fraud .  Joshua from On A Pacific Aisle says that an unmentioned little detail was that besides being all of the abov...
Blog Post From Trash to Music And Back. by Kimberly
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 by Kimberly
via Intermezzo What more can I say! I am jealous - both of South Africa and of Renee Flemming
Blog Post Ode To Joy by Kimberly
I have a lurking feeling that I have posted this previously, but that may be a year ago for all I remember, or maybe I just saw it and never really posted it. Via Opera Chic. ...
Blog Post Fiscal Responsibility by Kimberly
Everybody is concerned about the financial situation of course, and musical organizations no less than anyone else. Yet different organizations seem to be dealing with the situation in different w...
Blog Post Frogs, Sick Buildings and tenors. by Kimberly
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...
Blog Post Is Best Possible by Kimberly
I read an interesting post  in Listen which made me thing about the word BEST, in connection to art or a body of work by a specific artist or composer, and whether it is at all possible to de...
Blog Post The Potato Chip connection by Kimberly
Why a certain poet is totally unlike a potato chip. Isn't that the best sentence ever? actually its the title for a post on Cafe Aman . Go and find out why, if you haven't already.
Blog Post Tradition, Repetition and Messiah by Kimberly
I am not a christian and have never really celebrated Christmas, although, for anyone, living in the Western world, christian or not, Christmas is not something that goes unnoticed. As I child I was ...
Blog Post Attacca Definition Quiz. How Do You Measure Up? by Kimberly
I read a very amusing post by Kenneth Woods the conductor, about the different approaches possible and available to attacca. I chuckled out loud several times and am quoting in full for you ...
Blog Post Nazzareno de Angelis YouTubes by Kimberly
Nazzareno de Angelis sings Wotan's farewell in Italian, Recorded in 1907 (I love that you can here the rotations) What a great way to start the week. Boito's M...
Blog Post Go Busk For Charity by Kimberly
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 The Heritage of Bel Canto by Kimberly
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 The Performance Rights Tax - Part 2 by Zippybackflash
The RIAA made a huge mistake when Napster became a major distribution channel: instead of embracing the technology and working with Shawn Fanning to create the world's first major digital sales and d...
Blog Post Common Sense Verses Prestige by Kimberly
I have read in several places on the web that Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music has just closed a deal with Steinway , the largest in Steinway history for the purchase of 165 pianos, thu...
Blog Post Richard Haynes - Listen, My Secret Fetish by Kimberly
I found this video after reading The Ramblers review of Richard Haynes - Listen, My Secret Fetish . I found his description of this piece so interesting that I had to find somethin...
Blog Post Last Minutes Notice by Kimberly
My connection to music is not through creating it but through listening to it. Although I am a creative person, and understand the creative process, I can still not help being in awe by the fact that...
Blog Post The Kings New Clothes by Kimberly
Not being a musician, but a music lover, there is always the voyeuristic pleasure listening to musicians points of view that could only be formed from being an active, performing musician. Michae...
Blog Post Way Back When by Kimberly
Tony Hogan has the most delightful blog. It is imposible to read without being completly swept away by his descriptions. In his latest post he recomends listening to Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks...
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