Has Classical Music Lost Its Sense of Humour? « Marion Harrington’s Clarinet World. Clarinetist friend Marion Harrington suggested we classical musicians need to show our fun sides once in awhile. I agree. On reviewing the vast majority of classical music’s…
Post Concert Analysis and Relief
I am ecstatic with how well the concert went last night. We had a good crowd, relieving the fear that, with a very busy weekend various other entertainment in Columbus, very few would come. But filling my house is fairly…
Zen mode, preparing for a concert
I have a small chamber music concert at my house tomorrow evening, June 5 at 8PM. I’ll be playing the Debussy Rhapsodie, Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat (trio version) and the Poulenc Sextet. I am working with all world class musicians.…
New Music With a Tonal Twist
New Music With a Tonal Twist – WSJ.com. Ahh, the smell of fresh new music, and it actually smells pretty good! Who would have thunk? Melody? Catharsis? In more doctrinaire decades, writing music with such features constituted professional suicide. Today,…
Music born of sleepless nights
Music born of sleepless nights – Arts & Entertainment – Lifestyle | Central. Talk about inspiration from life’s tribulations! Insomnia drove top Australian composer Brett Dean to get his sleep patterns checked out. He was only getting about 20 minutes’…
Classical Crossover: What’s All the Fuss? – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com
Classical Crossover: What’s All the Fuss? – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com. I think this is a great idea, not only because it introduces “classical” artist to some of the “pop” crowd, but because it loosens the culturally rigid boundaries between…