Lenny, the Vienna Philharmonic and a portion of the last movement of Mahler’s 6th Symphony.
Archive for June, 2008
Lenny’s tragedy
Posted in Seattle, WA, tagged Gustav Mahler, Leonard Benrstein, Vienna Philharmonic on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Cascade Festival of Music closes
Posted in Portland, OR on June 28, 2008 | No Comments »
After 27 years of successfully offering classical music in Bend, Oregon, the Cascade Festival of Music has decided to fold and file for bankruptcy. According to the Bend Bulletin newspaper, the festival ended last fall with $190,000 in debt and successfully reduced that to $93,000. You would think that with all of the new money [...]
Talking with David Hattner, the new conductor of the Portland Youth Philharmonic
Posted in Portland, OR on June 28, 2008 | No Comments »
David Hattner is the new music director and conductor of the Portland Youth Philharmonic, making him only the 5th person to hold this position with the nation’s oldest youth orchestra (established in 1924 as the Portland Junior Symphony Association). Hattner beat 111 other applicants for the job in an evaluation process that took eight months [...]
Upcoming
Posted in Seattle, WA, tagged Chamber Music, Olympic Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Society, Gravitas Quartet, Seattle Bach Choir on June 28, 2008 | No Comments »
The Gravitas Quartet will be in town tonight playing at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford. On Sunday, the Seattle Bach Choir performs at Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Seattle. In keeping with the summer festival theme, the Olympic Music Festival kicks off its summer series this weekend. Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak and other usuals fill [...]
Down on McClatchy
Posted in Seattle, WA, tagged Henry Fogel, Classical Music, Critics, McClatchy on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Henry Fogel has sharp words for McClatchy which in recent weeks has been axing its classical music and arts critics around the country.
In the news
Posted in Seattle, WA, tagged Tokyo String Quartet, Port Townsend, Lawrence Johnson, South Florida, Miami on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
R.M. Campbell has a nice story on the Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival which will showcase the renowned Tokyo String Quartet. Having the Tokyo should really help to elevate the Port Townsend festival.
On the critic front, another one was let go. This time, Lawrence Johnson was on the block. Can you hear the hammer blows [...]
Update: a tragedy in four movements
Posted in Seattle, WA, tagged Gustav Mahler, Seattle Symphony, Summer Fest on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The composer Alban Berg told his friends and colleagues Mahler’s Sixth “Tragic” Symphony is “the only sixth symphony, despite Beethoven’s Pastorle;” high praise for a symphony that didn’t catch on with audiences until fairly recently. Like much of Mahler’s output, the Sixth is saddled with the composer’s personal nihilism. From start to finish, the symphony [...]
Joel Stein and Mahler’s Sixth
Posted in Seattle, WA, tagged Gustav Mahler, Joel Stein, LA Philharmonic on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »
One month ago Joel Stein had a column in the LA Times on classical music generally and Mahler’s Sixth Symphony in particular. It’s an amusing read and it begs the question would Christoph Eschenbach try to “carry on” his over sized wooden hammer?
City Arts hits the stands
Posted in Seattle, WA, tagged Seattle, Music, City Arts on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Seattle and the East Side are home to a new arts magazine. Published by Encore, the same company that prepared the vast majority of event programs up and down Puget Sound, City Arts Magazine purports to be a magazine that will:
“[E]xplore, both broadly and in depth, the idea of creativity in our community. Who’s making [...]
Schelomo and Duo: assessing Joshua Roman’s Seattle legacy
Posted in Seattle, WA, tagged Ernst Bloch, Joshua Roman, Schulhoff, Seattle Symphony on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After a textured performance of Paul Hindemith’s Concert Music for Strings and Brass the Seattle Symphony’s principal cellist, Joshua Roman glided into the center of the stage, cello in hand. The orchestra that gave him his professional start, was the orchestra with which Roman was about to launch in earnest, his new career as [...]
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