Exceptional. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, 90, conducts the Sinfonica de Galicia.
Library buy
Picked this up at the local library today for a buck. Looks in good condition. Liner notes say 1960. Anyone heard it?
Happy 90th birthday, Leontyne Price
“Dove sono” from “The Marriage of Figaro.”
Video: John Williams: ‘Soundings’
Happy 85th birthday to John Williams. Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Audio: Berlioz: Overture to ‘Benvenuto Cellini’
Colin Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Happy birthday, Philip Glass
Mr. Glass is 80 today. I had the privilege of interviewing him once, and he was just great, friendly, humorous and engaging. Here’s one of my favorite pieces by him.
Review: San Diego Symphony, James Gaffigan, American music festival
Review: At San Diego SO, An American Fest and Maestro Hunt. Classical Voice North America, Jan. 30, 2017.
Audio: a Paul Bowles field recording, Tangier, 1959
When a perfectly good field recording — early morning calls to prayer, Tangier, 1959 — meets a movable found object. Bowles kept it anyway.
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