shostakovich’s fourth symphony
This is a work that I really hope that we get to do someday at the Oregon Symphony. It uses tons of extra musicians, so it’s very expensive to do, but I hope that we can scrape together the 19-odd...
View Articleberlin philharmonic auditions
I just stumbled on to an online virtual panel discussion at Polyphonic.org from several years ago centered on the subject of orchestral auditions. One of the panelists, Fergus McWilliam is a member of...
View Articleshreddin’
There are some clever people in this world. Do you remember the “Yo-Yo Shreds at the Inauguration” vid that popped up on YouTube? Then there was the “Perlman Shreds Winter”: Now, there is the...
View Articlewhat might have been
If you’re still smarting about Joshua Bell’s decision to change his program from Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto to the Brahms, then you can take solace in this amazing performance by Hillary Hahn...
View Articleyoung conductor
This one just made me smile: an 8 year old came up and tried his hand at conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in the witches’ ride section of Humperdinck’s opera “Hansel and Gretel”. Cuteness ensues.
View Articlestrauss, mozart, posthorns, and end of life issues
I’m working on the program notes for the Oregon Symphony’s January 26-28, 2013 concerts, which will be a series you won’t want to miss. The first half is given to Mozart’s magnificent Serenade No. 9 in...
View Articlerecordings for this week’s concert
While I’m not a reviewer of recordings, I do have some recordings that I do especially like. This week’s program of works by Mozart and Richard Strauss is one of my favorite of this season, and so I...
View Articlewonderful strauss
Want to hear something great? Take a listen to the newly appointed 1st Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, Noah Bendix-Balgley, currently concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Newspaper article.
View Articlemay the (viola) force be with you
This snippet of video is from the Berlin Philharmonic’s annual outdoor concert at Berlin’s Waldbühne at the end of June, 2015. They’re playing the always awesome Main Title from Star Wars by John...
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