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Schoenberg's Moses and Aron and "Regietheater"
John Gibbons in Holde Kunst refers to an excellent article by Heather MacDonald which criticizes the current European practice of updating operatic stagings with material not traditionally associated… more →
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Joseph Schwantner - From Afar... A Fantasy For Guitar and Orchestra (1988)
feistymuse wrote 2 months ago: Sharon Isbin with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra under Hugh Wolf, 2002 Joseph Schwantner’s Fanta … more →
Ernest Bloch - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1938)
feistymuse wrote 2 months ago: Elmar Oliveira with Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra under John McLaughlin Williams, 2008 Ernest … more →
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" (1939)
feistymuse wrote 2 months ago: Utah Symphony Orchestra under Maurice Abravanel, 1966 Since this is my first assignment, I’m g … more →
Boulez on "New" Music
ohactually wrote 2 months ago: Tom Service quotes Pierre Boulez in a recent Guardian article: “Audiences follow the orchestra … more →
Love it
ohactually wrote 3 months ago: Stuff like this lengthy blog entry by Kyle Gann makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Not necessarily … more →
Being thankful to not live for several hundred years in the Middle Ages
Justin Capps wrote 5 months ago: The other day, for a refresher, I decided I was going to listen to music sequentially, from some of … more →
Classic Blues 1 - Bessie Smith
adamsmith1922 wrote 8 months ago: Adam has a great love of music. He is especially fond of jazz and blues. When he was much younger o … more →
La Heavana Musica,by Yuya Joe
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yuyajoe wrote 11 months ago: La Heavana Musica by Yuya Elijah Lifeguard La Heavana Musica … more →
Stockhausen
Calmseas (Mike) wrote 11 months ago: In my younger life, the name Karlheinz Stockhausen represented the vanguard of “new music … more →
Pandemonium in G Major
Deborah Barlow wrote 1 year ago: I love this guy. Alex Ross writes about music for The New Yorker. He is so reliably brilliant, and … more →
Schoenberg's Moses and Aron and "Regietheater"
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ken d wrote 1 year ago: John Gibbons in Holde Kunst refers to an excellent article by Heather MacDonald which criticizes th … more →
Arnold Schoenberg and Mozart
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ken d wrote 1 year ago: The difficulty in relating Schoenberg and Sibelius is small in comparison with the interesting task … more →
Sibelius's Fifth: Romantic musical language condensed into new forms
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ken d wrote 1 year ago: Here is a fine performance of the finale of Sibelius’s 5th. Esa-Pekka Salomen conducts the Swe … more →
Gould, Menuhin, and Schoenberg
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ken d wrote 1 year ago: Here is a great 2 part youtube video. The second part is a performance of Schoenberg’s Fantasi … more →
More Ligeti: BORIS FEINER plays Etude #6 "Autumn in Warsaw"
ken d wrote 1 year ago: This is a live performance. Autumns in Warsaw must be pretty creepy, at least this isn’t wha … more →
Greg Anderson plays Ligeti Etude 13: "The Devil's Staircase"
ken d wrote 1 year ago: György Sándor Ligeti died last summer (2006). Here’ s a wonderful performance of one of hi … more →
Violin Concerto (Sibelius)
ken d wrote 1 year ago: The Sibelius Violin Concerto, like much of Sibelius’s best music, obliterates time’s f … more →
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