Archives for the 'Classical Music' Category
Finally a post: some catching up
I have been swamped lately, and thus left little time for blogging. This post will be brief, even though there is much to write. The last two weeks the news went from lighthearted articles such as the Washington Post’s story about Joshua Bell performing in a subway station and earning little more than pocket change, [...]
The more obvious story, and therefore the easier sell
Musical America has a great article about how successful the Metropolitan Opera’s season has been with new general manager Peter Gelb exploring 1,001 media opportunities. For example:
“He also reported that Saturday’s simulcast of “Eugene Onegin,” into 239 movie theaters around the world, had reached an audience of over 50,000 and climbed to No. 8 on [...]
The Miraculous Download
It’s time for another moment of showing pride in the organization I work for. And once again, it is about Beyond the Score. I can’t help but getting back to this wonderful initiative and this time you can find out for yourself whether you should take me seriously or not.
Starting today, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra [...]
Why are there no famous Dutch composers?
Today’s news of Jaap van Zweden’s appointment to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as the next music director made me remember a thought I had the other day.
Last Monday I heard a piece by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen at the CSO’s MusicNOW concert. Andriessen is arguably the Netherlands’ best known contemporary composer, but other than Andriessen [...]
Updates and tidbits from Web 2.0 land
The New York Times reports on a Web site from Saatchi Gallery that allows art students to interact and share their art; a MySpace for artists. When I wrote my museum 2.0 entry, I had not heard of the Saatchi site yet, so it’s amazing how similar the ideas are. Even though the Saatchi site [...]
CSO back on the radio, Beyond the Score on the Internet
Today has been a tremendously exciting day so far. This afternoon I saw a run-through of the upcoming Beyond the Score on The Miraculous Mandarin. As you may know by now, I am probably the greatest fan of the Beyond the Score series and just as the two previous concerts I witnessed (Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben [...]
Holland-America Music Society Competition
If you are not going to the CSO’s Beyond the Score season opener with Pierre Boulez conducting The Miraculous Mandarin on Sunday, December 3, you might want to check out the 2006 HAMS Competition for Viola.
This annual string competition is organized by the Holland-America Music Society, an organization founded by Dutch CSO cellist Katinka Kleijn. [...]
On Keeping Score and titans
I made sure to record Keeping Score on my DVR last Sunday, when Chicago’s local PBS affiliate WTTW aired it. A day later, after I came home from an excellent Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Salome with Deborah Voigt, I settled on the couch to watch it. Its Web site looked promising and the [...]
Looking back on a year at the CSO
Today marks my one-year anniversary at my job. The good news is that in terms of what I have learned, it feels I have been at the job over a year, and in terms of time, it feels I have been there just three months. The best news is that I love what I do.
I [...]
Exploring Second Life (and classical music)
I changed into a black t-shirt, practiced a bit with a beach ball and a table, flew from here to there, and finally exited the practice island to step into the “real” world… I finally decided last week to have a peek at the Internet-based virtual reality world Second Life that has been featured in [...]
