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Wednesday night was the first concert in my subscription at the NY Philharmonic. This is my third year already! It was a good show; the first piece was the lovely fifth Brandenburg Concerto and its Baroque harpsichord goodness; then was the real world premiere of Bernard Rands' chains like the sea,...
September 9, 2008 “Music for the Queen” When Pau Casals was a child prodigy, he played the cello for Queen Victoria. When he was an old man, and considered by many to be the finest musical interpreter of the century, he played for Golda Meir. Now, he plays for me. He plays the Bach Cello Suites...
Bach wrote "a snootful of fugues." ("snootful" is, we were informed, a technical musical term) Bach's B Minor Mass was ignored until 75 years or so after it was written. Bach had been dead for some time, and Mendelsohn was "digging around" in the basement of the Leipzig library for "something new to...
have i mentioned before that i love the south island? the conference went well - good talks, well organized, good food. always nice to catch up with others in the field and make some new acquaintances. in this case, some of whom could be imminently useful career connections, but we won't dwell on...
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