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The Bach Partitas and Sonatas are must plays for every violinist, whether they are ancient, grumpy old soloists or young musicians who have achieved the technical proficiency to handle the works. These work’s musical depth is profound, and the famous Ciaccona might be the greatest work written for a solo violin. Fortunately since it is […] I first listened to the third movement of this work after having played it for the first time in a chamber group. Initially I thought of it as just a pretty melody, something one could easily fall asleep too. But, I feel now that as I’ve grown, and gained more “pathos” (if you will), it’s […] I went to my good friend, Alana Bennett’s, Senior Recital yesterday. She ended her program with the entire Dvorák Dumky Trio. For one, the players who included Patti Kilroy (her blog link is on the upper left hand side of the page), played great. Here and there they had some ensemble issues, but over all […] Regardless of your standing on the effects and benefits of the No Child Left Behind Act (Public Law 107-110), the most recent large scale education reform, the NCLB has had a profound negative effect on music and the arts in general in public schools. Robert Lynch provided statistics in The Hill when the act was […] Yesterday’s arts section in the New York Times had a nice reflection on Lincoln Center by Anthony Tommasini. In it he talks about criticism leveled at the performing arts center and then spends time reflecting on -and largely rejecting- these criticisms. I’ll take a look at some of his conclusions and add some of my […] This is one of the very first serious viola concertos after a long drought between the writing of this work and the Stamitz and Hoffmeister concertos. The problem with this work is that the Solo Viola doesn’t play for most the end of the piece, making it a terrible work to play on a recital […] It’s recital season and I have been going to a few in between stints of practicing for my own. At the end of last month, I played in a chamber concert hosted by Noam Faingold, where I played the Prokofiev Quintet. On the end of that concert was a group playing Messiaen’s Quartet for the […] Electronic music was first used by avant-garde composers in the early part of the 20th century, most notably Varese. These guys would record and transplant the sounds they choose to create their “organized sound” such as in Poême Électronique: As time went on and the abilities to create different sounds and explore timbre grew, […] I’ve been switching back and forth on the precept that we (as a classical music establishment) should be more relaxed about our concert setting. On one hand it is justified that we should be respectful to our fellow listeners who may have different tastes from us, or that some hooligan may just be making noise […] Aside from their totally awesome rendition of purple haze or the incredible recording of Golijov’s Tenebrae on Oceana this has to be my favorite recording the Kronos Quartet has put out: |
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