About Sam Bergman
Musician, writer, monkey with a microphone...
We’re now six hours away from a weekend of concerts that has sometimes seemed like it might never get here, the culminating performances of our 18 month long MicroCommission Project. The rehearsals of Acadia are over, the outline for the … Continue reading →
We’re in the home stretch of the run-up to the premiere of Acadia this weekend (do you have your tickets yet?), and that means two things. The first is that countless hours of preparatory work, technical drudgery, narrative craft, and … Continue reading →
I’m spending most of my offstage time these days either writing/editing the script for next week’s big premiere with Judd, prepping various peripherals for that same show, or thinking about all the elements that I’m either not happy with yet … Continue reading →
That old canard about why people climb Mount Everest never seemed so applicable to the music world as it did today when I read in The Guardian that someone has decided to actually stage Karlheinz Stockhausen’s insanely unstageable opera, Mittwoch … Continue reading →
The orchestra’s off to Florida for the week, and before you get too envious, know that we’ll be spending the vast bulk of our non-performing time on buses, traveling between cities full of Minnesota snowbirds. (Okay, there might be a … Continue reading →
It’s been quite a while since we in the Minnesota Orchestra have had ourselves a good, old-fashioned train wreck. Like, years, I think, unless I’ve subconsciously blocked a particularly traumatic concert from my memory. Which is all to the good, … Continue reading →
So, you guys? Just in case my endless blather about this week’s rehearsal schedule hasn’t been enough to induce you to buy a ticket to Thursday’s or Sunday’s concerts – this? This here is our piano soloist, Ingrid Fliter, fresh … Continue reading →
So, as previously mentioned, Courtney is making his subscription concert debut with us this week, and we’ve spent the last two days rehearsing his program, which consists of a lovely piano concerto we’ve all played many times, and two absolutely … Continue reading →
A tip of the hat to the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Maiya Papach for bringing this amazing compilation to my attention: I mean, that is actually kind of amazing, right? Just two repetitions of a single chord, played about 30 … Continue reading →
Wow, have I really gone a week between posts? I knew I was getting behind, but honestly, it feels like I haven’t had time to take a breath in about a month, and there’s no letup in sight. In addition … Continue reading →
