Archive for October 3rd, 2025
BookNotes considers Best Small Fictions
Best Small Fictions is the first-ever contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year. The Series Editor is Nathan Leslie, who is my guest on BookNotes this month.
Guest Post: The Bayreuth Experience by Douglas Blackstone
This past June an old friend of mine had got to the point in his bucket list where he wanted to see Wagner’s Ring at Bayreuth in Northern Bavaria, home of Wagner’s famous Festspielhaus. He was taking his son and his nephew to accompany him. I had actually been to Bayreuth many years ago as […]
Gil and Orli Shaham open Shriver Concerts’ 60th season
Violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Orli Shaham join forces for a rare sibling duo-recital to open the 60th anniversary season of the Shriver Hall Concert Series on Sunday. They perform works by Clara and Robert Schumann and their friends Johannes Brahms and Amanda Maier. It was a great pleasure to speak with Gil by […]
Toccata listings for 10/5/25
On tonight’s program, a harpsichord sonata by C.P.E. Bach, Brahms pays homage to his friend Robert Schumann, and Respighi for organ and strings. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:01 PM 25977 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Sonata No.6 in G WQ 55 CPO 999100 SOLO Gabor Antalffy,harpsichord 15:12 C 1 16-18 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:19 PM 21217 […]
Playlist: Oct/03/25
11:44 PM Sir Edward Elgar — “Falstaff” – Symphonic Study Key: C minor Opus: 68Conductor: Sir Simon RattleAngel/EMI, 55001 11:30 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Violin Sonata No. 1 Key: G major Gil Shaham, violinOrli Shaham,pianocanary, 1 10:55 PM Richard Strauss — Elektra Suite arr by M Honeck Conductor: Manfred HoneckReference, 722 10:13 PM Adolph […]
