If you were with us at Orchestra Hall on Wednesday evening, here’s your chance to tell us what you thought of the concert. We covered an awful lot of ground in the first half of the program, and also created … Continue reading →
For those of you coming to our final Inside the Classics concerts of the season this week, here’s the usual trove of links, tidbits, and general info that we won’t have time to get into on stage. To begin with, … Continue reading →
For reasons that remain unclear to me (but which almost certainly have to do with Blogger being ridiculously sucky at generating blogs,) we do not have a blogroll here at ItC Central. So when we discover a fabulous new music-related … Continue reading →
Sorry for the extremely light blogging this past week, but Sarah and I are scrambling to get this week’s (exceedingly complicated) Inside the Classics concerts ready for prime time, and on top of that, I’ve spent the last seven days … Continue reading →
…watch this, and I challenge you not to smile. I particularly love the über-flat Db at the first key change. And the little walk. Trololololo! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM]
One of the great things about being a musician in the internet age is the constant two-way connection you can make with your audience. Where professional critics once stood alone in assessing the quality or relevance of a performance, now … Continue reading →
A telephone conversation with Jascha Heifetz. No, really. “If you don’t have a date, bring your boy, bring somebody, I don’t care.” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4jbU9n6mQ]
Or better yet, Happy Birthday! The new 20 zloty note featuring bicentennial birthday boy and Poland’s favorite son, Fryderyk Chopin. Unfortunately for conductors, the only orchestra music Chopin wrote lies in the piano concertos, which, while containing little actual music … Continue reading →
