Another in my occasional series on classical music for beginners …
How to enjoy classical music. Orange County Register, Aug. 7, 2014.
Review: ‘Fantasia’
Review: ‘Fantasia’ is a visual spectacle. Orange County Register, Aug. 10. 2014.
Stravinsky’s film music
Here’s a short promo for the new documentary “Stravinsky in Hollywood.” The filmmakers cue in some of Stravinsky’s music to movies he wrote it for (though it was not used). See what you think.
Review: National Youth Orchestra of the U.S.A.
Review: National Youth Orchestra bows at Disney Hall. Los Angeles Register, Aug. 5, 2014.
photo: Chris Lee
Dudamel’s music for ‘Libertador’ debuts
Review: Gustavo Dudamel premieres film score. Los Angeles Register, August 1, 2014.
Operalia jury
Placido Domingo’s singing competition, Operalia, is in L.A. this year. They’ve posted the names of the jurors of the Los Angeles Opera’s website. Here they are:
Operalia 2014 Jury
Marta Domingo (Stage Director)
F. Paul Driscoll (Editor-in-Chief: Opera News)
Thierry Fouquet (General Director: Opéra National de Bordeaux, France)
Anthony Freud (General Director: Lyric Opera of Chicago)
Jonathan Friend (Artistic Administrator: Metropolitan Opera, New York)
Jean-Louis Grinda (General Director: Opéra de Monte Carlo, Monaco)
Ioan Holender (Artistic Advisor: Metropolitan Opera and Tokyo Spring Festival; Artistic Director: George
Enescu Festival, Bucharest, Romania)
Peter Katona (Director of Casting: Royal Opera House, London, UK)
Christopher Koelsch (President and CEO: Los Angeles Opera)
Grégoire Legendre (General Director: Opéra de Québéc, Canada)
Joan Matabosch (Artistic Director: Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain)
Pål Moe (Casting Consultant: Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Germany; Glyndebourne Festival Opera, UK; Opéra de Lille, France; Norwegian Opera House, Oslo)
Andrés Rodriguez (General Director: Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile)
Helga Schmidt (Intendente: Palau de les Arts, Valencia, Spain)
I just have one question: Why no music critics?
First record
originally written for kusc’s blog in 2009
My memory is a little foggy on some of the details. I was in high school, already a burgeoning trombonist, and already getting in amongst my mother’s collection of classical LPs. At some point, though, I decided to buy one of my own and that ended up being a recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. To the best of my recollection, chairman, that was my first classical record. At any rate, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Why Bruckner’s Fourth? I had never even heard of the composer, let alone his music, until about a week before. I was taking private lessons with a trombone teacher at Cal State Long Beach and he had gotten me started on what would come to be my daily bread for the next decade or so: orchestral excerpts…
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Dudamel’s Bowl double bill
Review: Opera to the hilt at the Bowl. Los Angeles Register, July 28, 2014.
Giulini rehearses L.A. Philharmonic in Beethoven 9
Ran across this the other day and just wanted to share. This is Giulini through and through.
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