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2024-03-21 10:56:00
For young classical audiences the sound is the message
[…] The second step is to create a solution. For several decades in its search for a new younger audience classical music has been trying to solve the wrong problem. Putting the music through a programmatic blender to produce the aural equivalent of baby food is not the solution. New audiences are bass literate; for the younger audience the sound is the message. Sonically chewable music is already in the repertoire - Pléïades, The Rite of Spring, Arcana, and so on. Sometime DJ Mason Bates is mining this mother lode very successfully with his works for orchestra and electronics. An example of how to set the gamma rhyths bouncing is the bass reproduced in the Grammy-nominated San Francisco Symphony's SACD of Bates' Liquid Interface. Classical music must also look beyond existing repertoire to give new younger audiences the sound fix they crave. Digital technologies now make sound-shaping experiments possible. Yet the classical music world throws a hissy fit anytime anyone […]
2024-03-06 17:37:39
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2024-02-19 18:39:13
EnsembleIsata Kanneh-Mason (piano); Dinis Sousa (cond.); Royal Northern SinfoniaProgrammeSymphony No
2024-02-11 19:52:00
Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. Ching-Chun Lai, conductor; Diana Kim, violin. February 10, 2024.
Nicholas Music Center, Mason Gross PAC, New Brunswick, NJ. Open seating ($12.50).There is supposedly "no video recording or photography" inside the music center, at all times. I have no idea how strictly the policy is enforced. I managed to snap this shot of Kim and Lai leaving the stage.Programsubito con forza (2020 by Unsuk Chin (b. 1961).Symphony No. 2, H. 295 (1943) by Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959).Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806) by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).After attending one of their events, I get bombarded with Rutgers advertisements. Not that there is anything wrong with it (except the tremendous waste of paper and other resources), and that's how I found out about tonight's performance by the RSO, with Beethoven's violin concerto on the program. At a cost of $10 (for seniors, plus handling fee), nothing can possibly go wrong.And nothing did. Indeed I loved the Beethoven violin concerto. Kim did […]
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