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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-01-16 14:34:45
An Israeli conductor is exposed as a boy molester
Then journalist Asaf Harel in Haaretz has exposed one of the most respected teachers and conductors in Israel as a persistent predator on teenaged boys. Harel, himself a former student of the conductor, says Menahem Nebenhaus was a revered figure at the elite Telma Yellin School and across Israeli musical life. He has collected testimonies […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-03-19 21:30:36
Netflix Wants To Dominate The World
One of its five public strategies to meet that goal: "Netflix is now dividing up its subscriber base into 1,300 taste communities, which are solely based on past viewing behavior. Each and every user can belong to multiple such communities, and all of these communities spread across the globe. Sure, Yellin admitted, German comedians may be more popular in Germany, but there’s also plenty of users in the U.S. who turn into their shows."
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-11-14 11:15:37
The pianist, the ballet star and the daughter who jumped
All week long, there has been a campaign on social media about the pianist that time forgot. Esther Yellin has led a turbulent life in the Soviet Union, Israel and Switzerland. Her recordings have just been reissued. She is, beyond doubt, an outstanding artist. The tragic family story is recounted in this Haaretz feature from January 2010 – a compelling painful read, here.
2015-10-30 08:00:30
Supernatural. Super music.
[…] The Turn of the Screw (8.660109-10 ) among then. But we’ll round off today with a mention of some lesser-known spooky sounds that show how the devil and his associates occasionally had a softer side to them. From his four Symphonic Sketches, the American composer George Whitefield Chadwick’s Hobgoblin (8.559213 ) dating from 1904 is a colourful and rhythmically energetic Halloween piece, more impish than insidious, but a jolly good romp nonetheless. Chadwick’s biographer Victor Yellin thought the piece sounded like an “English Puck domesticated to Massachusetts in October”, which seems just about right. Edward MacDowell’s Witches’ Dance (8.559049 ) became one of his most popular works, to the extent that MacDowell became embarrassed by what he saw as the piece’s flashiness and shallow outlook, although he was still playing it himself in 1891! Here’s the closing passage. Contemporary composers continue to explore spooky themes, and […]
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