Image Credit The clarinet tone saga continues, but one chapter is over. Most of the comments indicated that #3, the Selmer Privilege, won the match from last week’s test. The instrument order was: #1- Buffet R13, #2- Buffet Tosca and…
Baltimore Symphony’s Marin Alsop leads the way with her words
Classical Resolutions: Marin Alsop Targets a Tech Savvy Future, NPR blog Deceptive Cadence. See highlighted text below for another reason why I wrote what I wrote in This Post. From Baltimore Symphony Music Director Marin Alsop: One of my greatest…
Symphony Orchestras must Adapt or Wither – Warning: Growing pains ahead
Image Credit – May The following three articles appeared as a series in the Denver Post on the subject of the plight of live classical music performance in the last century. The series was very popular, which is not surprising…
Searching for tomorrow’s classical music still requires trial and error. That’s the fun of it.
Insightful article on the importance of performing new music, like it or not! Searching for tomorrow’s classical music. Where new works are concerned, musicians are beta testers. But they still need listener feedback to know whether a piece speaks to…
The Super Bowl of Clarinet Tone Tests. Tosca VS R13 VS Selmer!
All the following clarinet tone tests were recorded in a large church sanctuary, the site where I will record the upcoming CD in May. (Last week’s instruments were 1- R13 and 2- Tosca) The acoustic you hear is all natural.…
El Sistema taps the power of classical music to help US children flourish
An excellent trend. In the battle over classical music’s value in a global economy, the gift it really offers is beyond artistic entertainment of society. The real gift of classical music is it’s endlessly engaging complexity and emotion, which, not…