Archive for September, 2019
Taking a stand against that phone in your hand, or, thank you, Ms. Mutter!
It’s very difficult to keep an arts organization afloat these days. From the largest concert halls and opera houses to “small theater” companies and chamber music ensembles that perform in schools or churches, everyone worries about how to attract and retain audiences. Then there’s the fact that ticket prices cover only a portion of operating […]
Monday 09/30/19 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Bernstein conducts Haydn’s Mass in B-flat STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Guiseppe Sinopoli, conductor HAYDN: Mass in B‐flat, Hob. XXII:14 Harmoniemesse Judith Blegen, soprano Frederica Von Stade, mezzo Kenneth Riegel, tenor Simon Estes, bass Westminster Choir Joseph Flummerfelt, director Leonard Bernstein, conductor STRAUSS: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 […]
Playlist: Sep/30/19
10:51 PM Joaquin Rodrigo — Tres pequenas piezas Pepe Romero, guitarPhilips, 4758248 10:25 PM Etienne-Nicolas Mehul — Symphony No. 2 Key: DConductor: Marc MinkowskiEnsemble: Musicians of the LouvreErato, 45026 10:07 PM Edward German — Welsh Rhapsody Conductor: Sir Alexander GibsonEnsemble: Scottish National OrchestraAngel/EMI, 64805 10:00 PM Frederic Chopin — Waltz No. 1 Key: E-Flat Opus: […]
Music From Movies 09-29-19
7:00 PM 7:00 PM Dmitri Tiomkin The Guns of Navarone: Prelude RCA/BMG 2792 COND Charles Gerhardt ORCH National Philharmonic Orch. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:03 PM Sergei Prokofiev Lt. Kije: Suite Op 60 RCA/BMG 61957 COND Fritz Reiner ORCH Chicago Symphony Orchestra ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:25 PM James Horner Music from Iris:complete score CBS/Sony 89806 COND James Horner ORCH Studio […]
Choral Hour 09-29-19
8:00 AM 8:00 AM John Taverner Western Wind Mass Gimell 27 COND Peter Philips ORCH The Tallis Scholars ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:34 AM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Hymnes Sacres Ch du Mond 278749 COND Youri Oukhov ORCH Moscow Chamber Choir ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:52 AM Franz Schubert Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern D DG/Archiv 457648 COND John Eliot Gardiner […]
Playlist: Sep/29/19
8:54 PM Heitor Villa-Lobos — Prelude No. 3 Key: aAlvaro Pierri, GuitarAnalekta, 3051 8:52 PM Heitor Villa-Lobos — Etude No. 5 Key: CAlvaro Pierri, GuitarAnalekta, 3051 8:11 PM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Piano Concerto No. 2 Key: GOpus: 44Conductor: Vladimir FedoseyevEnsemble: Philharmonia OrchestraMikhail Pletnev, pianoVirgin, 61463 7:25 PM James Horner — Music from Iris:complete score […]
Vocalise 9/28/19
8:00 PM 8:00 PM Leo Delibes Lakme: Flower Duet London 19033 COND Sebastian Lang-Lessing ORCH Philharmonia Orchestra SOLO Renee Fleming, soprano SOLO Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:03 PM John Dowland Weep You No More Dorian 90136 SOLO Frederick Urrey, tenor SOLO Ronn McFarlane, lute ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:08 PM Giacomo Puccini Messa di Gloria Erato 55026 COND […]
A huge honor to be published by The Rumpus!
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Playlist: Sep/28/19
8:08 PM Giacomo Puccini — Messa di Gloria Conductor: Michel CorbozEnsemble: Gulbenkian Foundation Orch.and ChorusWilliam Johns, tenorPhillippe Huttenlocher, bassErato, 55026 8:03 PM John Dowland — Weep You No More Frederick Urrey, tenorRonn McFarlane, luteDorian, 90136 8:00 PM Leo Delibes — Lakme: Flower Duet Conductor: Sebastian Lang-LessingEnsemble: Philharmonia OrchestraRenee Fleming, sopranoSusan Graham, mezzo-sopranoLondon, 19033 6:44 PM […]
The BSO opens its new season!
Joining the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for its opening concert of the season is cross-over violinist/composer, Daniel Bernard Roumain, making his BSO debut with his own composition: Voodoo Violin Concerto.
