[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9p0Acf-SbU] A Japanese ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BAND at a band competition. Enormously impressive, more so because they are playing with the music memorized (note that the teacher/conductor is the only one with a score!). I’m constantly reminded of the undeniable fact … Continue reading →
Your turn, Thursday audience! Chime in down in the comments to tell us what you thought of tonight’s performance, and what you’d like to hear more or less of at future concerts. As always, your feedback helps us shape future … Continue reading →
If you were with us at Orchestra Hall tonight for the first of our Inside the Classics concerts featuring music of Debussy, here’s the place for you to let us know what you thought of the show! We covered an … Continue reading →
In past seasons, Sarah and I have written a series of Cutting Room Floor blog posts in the weeks leading up to each of our Inside the Classics shows, highlighting extra material that we didn’t have time to include in … Continue reading →
…a man with two noses. (It’s been a Monty Python kind of afternoon.) The phrase came to mind as I was flying back to Minneapolis last night (and in a decidedly non-Pythonian context) – I was putting Post-Its on my … Continue reading →
I’m sitting on my couch in a semi-comatose state right now, which is a position that has become all too familiar to me this season. I think, prior to this past fall, I had missed a grand total of four … Continue reading →
So, to keep up with the levity here lately, have all of you been following the whole “Pants on the ground” phenomenon? If not, in a nutshell; last week on American Idol, contestant Larry Platt busted out with this incongruously … Continue reading →
And speaking of viola jokes, here’s a little something I’ve been meaning to get on tape for quite a while now. Our viola section is notorious for always being up to something, and we frequently reduce each other to hysterics … Continue reading →
Things have been getting pretty heavy around here lately (it’s the winter doldrums – I swear I’ll stop going off on rants once the sun comes out,) so it’s definitely time for a mental health break. This oughta be just … Continue reading →
If you follow the classical music business closely, you’ve likely read already that the vaunted Cleveland Orchestra, which many consider to be America’s best symphony, is on the verge of going on strike. The musicians have been working without a … Continue reading →
