Fresh from the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg
I've just been in Bamberg for a few days to listen to the finals of the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition. Top prize went to Lahav Shani, a ...
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Inaugural Season: Before the Tour
By Thomas Cooper: The fourth movement of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony no. 2 is the song Urlicht, or Primeval Light. As I sat in the orchestra on March 10 ...
Just in: Israeli wins Dude-maker competition
The Gustav Mahler conducting competition in Bamberg – which, in 2004, shoved Gustavo Dudamel blinking into the limelight – was won last night by ...
Michael Tilson Thomas Leads The SF Symphony And Chorus, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Gil Shaham, Lisa …
Michael Tilson Thomas leads a star-studded program with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, violinist Gil Shaham, soprano Lisa Vroman, and the San Francisco ...
History and harmony
It is an awesome showcase of musical instruments spanning several centuries at The Imperial Palace, Vienna.
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The Spirit of Mahler Lives On, With Vim
NEW YORK—The ensemble finished the last note of the Scherzo Allegro movement of Brahm’s Piano Quintet in F minor with resounding energy at the very ...
The Jazz Pope
Someone on Twitter sent me this lovely article the other day by the Jesuit, Ryan Duns about Pope Francis as The Jazz Pope.
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Gustav Mahler
Learning to Listen to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
There are pieces of music that changed the course of music as we know it, and then there's Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
Next Progressives: Studio H:T
Studio H:T refuses to be typecast. Its principals, Christopher Herr and Brad Tomecek, have rejected formulaic projects in favor of ones that respond ...
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