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2024-02-09 13:52:00
Seiji Ozawa, former music director of the Toronto Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died of heart failure at 88. He had been in poor health for about 14 years.He led the BSO for 29 years. I lived in the Boston area for five of those years and saw him conduct only once of twice. (It was a major schlep to get from Waltham to Symphony Hall; I spent a lot of time in evening rehearsals, and there were many, many free concerts at Brandeis. In retrospect, if I'd had any sense, I would have coordinated my flute lessons, in Brookline, with the Friday matinees.)As I understand it, the length of his tenure in Boston eventually became a problem; conflicts with the orchestra, etc. I wasn't there and wasn't paying a lot of attention, but I do remember the relief when he finally resigned and James Levine became […]
2023-11-30 12:42:00
Recent Releases No. 67 (CD Reviews)
[…] your typical collection of popular carols. Moreover, the musical settings vary; some with orchestra, some with choir, some with children’s choir. Even if, like me, you already have a number of Christmas albums in your collection, you really ought to give this one serious consideration.Miracle of Miracles: Music for Hanukkah. Trad., arr. Robert Applebaum: Oh Chanukah/Y'Mei Hachanukah; Trad., arr. Steve Barnett: S’vivon; Trad., arr. Mark Zuckerman: O, ir kleyne likhtelekh; Gerald Cohen: Chanukah Lights: Applebaum: Haneirot Halalu; Trad., arr. Elliott Z. Levine): Al HaNisim; Trad., arr. Applebaum): Al Hanisim; Joshua Fishbein: Al Hanisim (For the Miracles); Daniel Tunkel: from Hallel Cantata - I. Hal’luyah! (Psalm 113); II. B’tzeit Yisrael (Psalm 114); III. Adonai Z’charanu (Psalm 115, vv. 12-18); VI. Hodu (Psalm 118, vv. 1-4); Trad., arr. Applebaum): Maoz Tzur; Levine: Lo V’Chayil; Vladimir Heyfetz (Arr. Zuckerman): Fayer, fayer; Samuel E. Goldfarb (arr. Applebaum): Funky Dreidl (I Had a Little Dreidl); Mikhl Gelbart (Arr. Zuckerman): I am a Little Dreydl (Ikh bin a kleyner Dreydl); Jonathan M. Miller: Biy’mey Mattityahu; […]
2023-10-26 06:37:00
Stories in music in Oxford: visual inspirations from the Mendelssohn siblings, William Blake in song & image, vivid story-telling from Wolf & Mörike
[…] more serious. This led to Auf der Wanderschaft (Fisher), also setting Lenau and written after Fanny's death. Almost Schubertian, the piano part featured a sombre, steady tread as Fisher wove a passionate line over. Finally, Nachtlied, an Eichendorff setting sung as a duet and featuring a rather significant tolling bell.This fascinating survey ended with Felix's final song, the touching Old German Spring Song, shared between the two performers. The early evening concert took place in the Levine Building at Trinity College. This was more auditorium that concert hall, and enabled Robin Tritschler (tenor) and Christopher Glynn (piano) to present a sequence of largely 20th-century settings of William Blake's texts alongside images from Blake. These included, of course, the wonderfully illuminated versions of some of the poems that Blake produced alongside his more mystical pieces. The selection of texts did include some of the strange, more mystical elements but there was a […]
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