Over at Slate, Jan Swafford has put together an excellent article on the history of tuning musical instruments. WAIT! Don’t go back to Facebook yet – I promise this will not be anywhere near as boring as that first sentence … Continue reading →
Our fancy new WordPress blog interface also comes with a new and improved RSS feed, so if you’re in the habit of keeping track of our posts with an RSS reader, here’s the new address for you to bookmark. Or … Continue reading →
There won’t be anything new going up on the blog this week, as we work to migrate the whole enterprise from Blogger to WordPress. There are a lot of reasons for the change, which we’ve been wanting to make for … 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 →
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 →
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 →
The Superbowl was great (the last quarter made it a truly exciting game, and I’m so happy for the city of New Orleans!), but what really made my weekend was a pair of concerts, both in Orchestra Hall, both of … Continue reading →
[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 →
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 →
…to all you composers (or friends of composers) out there: Applications for the 2010 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute are available; the deadline is March 1.
