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2023-04-01 02:40:31
Whenever people start talking about the wonderful and terrifying possibilities of AI, I think of the above comment from the composer Ben Phelps, in 2017. To paraphrase for the current moment: if AI is capable of writing journalism, then surely...
2022-09-16 22:33:00
Violinist and pedagogue Jorja Fleezanis died last weekend at only 70. She was associate concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony, then went on to be concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra for some 20 years. John Adams wrote his first violin concerto for her. She retired in 2009 after the death of her husband, the musicologist and program annotator Michael Steinberg, and began teaching at Indiana University.David Allen's NY Times obituary has this choice bit in it:Ms. Fleezanis at first looked likely to break barriers at the San Francisco Symphony, which she joined as a second violinist in 1980, becoming its associate concertmaster in 1981. Sharing the first stand with Raymond Kobler, she played so “splendidly,” the critic Robert Commanday wrote in The San Francisco Examiner in 1988, that she struck observers “as the stronger of the two, and often the real leader of the section.”In a decision that Mr. Commanday […]
2022-04-28 00:37:45
Acclaimed Cellist and Pianist Sibling Duo Perform Recital of Sonatas by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Britten, and Frank Bridge In-Person Season Offers Livestream Option to all Ticket Holders “Call it sibling harmony...Sheku’s lyricism was both foil and peer to Isata’s muscularity and fire.” –The Guardian www.shriverconcerts.org Baltimore, MD (March 21, 2022) — Shriver Hall Concert Series presents sibling duo Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason on Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 5:30pm. Sheku and Isata are featured in a recital of timeless sonatas including Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1; Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40; Britten’s Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65; and Frank Bridge’s Cello Sonata in D minor. 22-year old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason was named the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016, and gained further recognition performing at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at Windsor Castle in […]
2020-11-13 20:03:00
92Y Online Concert - Anthony McGill, clarinet and Members of the New York Philharmonic. Novemeber 12, 2020.
Live Broadcast from 92Y ($10). Program Mendelssohn, String Quartet in D Major, Op. 44, No. 1 (1838) Coleridge-Taylor, Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 10 (1895) New York Philharmonic members Yulia Ziskel, violin; Na Sun, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Nathan Vickery, cello. How much the concert can be enjoyed depends very much on how well the internet is working at the moment of broadcast. Today the network was somewhat unstable. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the Mendelssohn piece and learned something about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The clarinet quintet probably would sound better if one gets more familiar with it, although the last movement was quite easy to like. The movements of the compositions are as follows. For Mendelssohn: (1) Molto allegro vivace; (2) Menuetto: Un poco Allegretto; (3) Andante espressivo ma con moto; and (4) Presto con brio. For Coleridge-Taylor: (1) Allegro energico; (2) Larghetto affecttuoso - Molto espressivo; […]
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