Continuing with the top ten list of my favorite concerts of the year, we’ve made it to summer… 6. All-Nordic Program, Macy’s Day of Music – July 13, Orchestra HallIf you’ve never been to the Day of Music, you’re missing … Continue reading →
A majority of the musicians I know are involved with music education in one form or another. From a musician’s point of view, it’s only logical, as part of being an artist is ensuring the continuation of that art by … Continue reading →
Somewhere, deep in the second appendix of the Great Global Rule Book, it is written that everyone must make lists at the end of the calendar year. Best of… lists, worst of… lists, top ten lists, lists of resolutions, lists … Continue reading →
There are endless theories on what music education should be, and how the task of introducing kids to high culture should be divided between schools, parents, and arts organizations. In recent years, as school budgets in the US have gotten … Continue reading →
Sitting here in my post-holiday overindulgence coma, I thought back on the many happy Christmas Days I had as a child. They were not, in my mind, notable for the warm family memories or the gift-giving or the caroling or … Continue reading →
I grew up in the Quaker church (not nearly as exotic in my home state of Pennsylvania as it is in the Midwest,) so the kind of extravagant Christmas celebrations that so many religious traditions observe were foreign to me. … Continue reading →
OK, if you’re tired of Handel’s Messiah this holiday season and are up for a giggle (and don’t mind some NC-17 humor), check out this video, Bill O’Reilly’s sexual harassment suit sung “like Handel’s Messiah”. Yes, composer Igor Keller actually … Continue reading →
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Having been excused from Friday night’s holiday pops show because (get this) there wasn’t enough room on the stage for five stands of violas, I took advantage of the evening off to go to a movie I’ve been waiting to … Continue reading →
Well, ’tis the season, and musicians all over the world are buried in ballet pits for the billionth production of the “Nutcracker”. But trust me, you’ve never seen a production of the holiday favorite like this one, a production of … Continue reading →
Seattle Weekly has an article in its latest issue which dares to suggest that there actually might not be anything wrong with the way classical music is presented in concert halls. Author Gavin Borchert acknowledges that there seems to be … Continue reading →
