34 days ago by mojosmom

I went to the opening gala of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last night. I don't usually, but Renée Fleming was singing, and she doesn't get out here all that much anymore. The CSO sent out an email a while back suggesting "formal dress", so I broke out the black Mme. X dress and wore long dangly ea ...

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42 days ago by Phillip Nones

Wilma Cozart Fine, audio Hi-Fi pioneer, operating the controls at Mercury's classical record division in the 1950s. This past week, the world lost a legend in the audio recording field with the death of Wilma Cozart Fine, age 82. The name may not be familiar to many. But if you grew up in the 1960s ...

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75 days ago by Kert

scifiradioguy asked: As performed by the Chicago Symphony. I remember seeing them perform this on “Entertainment Tonight” the Friday before their victory in Super Bowl XX. DOMINIC

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76 days ago by BuddhaBoy

Music did a number on me — latimes.com. Opinion Music did a number on me Experts say that musical training can have a profound effect on young minds. But 50 years after violin lessons and a disaster with the Chicago Symphony, the writer is singing a different tune. By Mark Steinberg In a recent inte ...

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96 days ago by Charles Noble

With Christian Thielmann leaving Munich, and Mario Venzago fired from Indianapolis, it’s interesting to note that both departures (though one was the conductor quitting and the other was the conductor being dismissed) are closely related to the overlapping of two roles in the symphony orchestra hier ...

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96 days ago by Charles Noble

I came across an article from today’s Chicago Sun-Times which asserts the success of the jumbotron-style video screens at the Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony. As usual, this has engendered the tired arguments between the crusty old salts and the fresh-faced ingenues as to what ...

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120 days ago by Ron Spigelman

In a “review” by Lawrence Johnson, he ranted about the use of the Jumbotrons at the Ravinia festival. OK I can see that there might be some who want the “traditional” experience, but the setting is far from traditional in the concert going sense, accessibility is something that needs to be taken int ...

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120 days ago by Ron Spigelman

In a “review” by Lawrence Johnson, he ranted about the use of the Jumbotrons at the Ravinia festival. OK I can see that there might be some who want the “traditional” experience, but the setting is far from traditional in the concert going sense, accessibility is something that needs to be taken int ...

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135 days ago by Alessandro Romanelli

Sarà il celebre pianista serbo insieme all’Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, diretta da John Axelrod ad aprire stasera sull’ incantevole squarcio mozzafiato della costiera amalfitana, il Ravello Festival (26 giugno – 26 settembre). In programma il notissimo Secondo Concerto per pianoforte e ...

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169 days ago by Bill Harrison

Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Symphony Center, Chicago Third Stream music, that quasi-experimental blend of orchestral textures with modern jazz, has had a rocky history, at best. To my ears, when composers or arrangers try to bring so-called classical music together with a swinging rhythm section disast ...

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