59 days ago by Pliable

Despite the economic turmoil classical music remains financially dependant on the banking and financial services sector. Exclusive Overgrown Path research shows that 45% of corporate sponsorship for ten leading orchestras in Europe and North America comes from the banking and financial services sect ...

On An Overgrown Path - overgrownpath.com

61 days ago by tommackey

By all appearances and by all sounds, Jeremy Denk had a lot of fun playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto # 3 this past Saturday. His outfit was formal for a party at a friend’s house but informal for Symphony Hall and that was fun too. I’d been looking forward to Denk’s performance once his name appear ...

Off the blocks - tmmackey.com

68 days ago by mikey

Kids! Have you ever asked your parents for something again and again? Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) contains a piece entitled Pleading Child, where the melody repeats itself just like a pleading child. And you won’t know if the wish was granted until the next movement. This ...

Dogfoose.com (Michael Kline) - dogfoose.com

80 days ago by Jonathan Harnum

I have the confidence I’ll eventually get it. It might not be a quick fix, as much as you want to play the call in Also Sprach [Zarathustra], the first time you pick it up. It’s something I really had to work on, and still do. ~from the interview. Interview: Colin Oldberg, Principal Trumpet, Hong Ko ...

The Practice of Practice - intentionalpractice.wordpress.com

144 days ago by Fine Violins

By Stefan Aune Alisa Weilerstein is an internationally renowned cellist and a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship award winner. This award, given each year to between 20 and 40 U.S. residents, is known colloquially as the "genius award," and is presented to individuals of any age or field that "show exception ...

The Violin Shop - blog.feinviolins.com

158 days ago by Klari

Salle Pleyel • vendredi 2 septembre 2011 Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (direction) *** Bernard Rands : Danza Petrificada (création) Richard Strauss : Mort et Transfiguration Dmitri Chostakovitch : Symphonie n° 5 *** En général, je n'aime guère les orchestres américains que je considère t ...

Le klariscope - klariscope.com