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2022-12-23 10:16:00
Eat the meal not the menu
[…] meal. And that error is not confined to an Amazon reviewer: it is perpetuated by the whole of the classical industry. New listeners are told to eat the same set menu of Shostakovich and Mahler punctuated by amuse bouches of virtue signalling trifles. (Does BBC Radio 3 really have nothing else to programme than increasingly lacklustre performances of Mahler 1, followed the next day by, yes you guessed it, another Mahler symphony?)Missing are what the Japanese calligrapher Sabro Hasegawa called 'controlled accidents' This is the shock of chance entanglement I felt many years ago when digging deep into the classical a la carte menu and discovering, for instance, the visceral power of Bernstein's recording of the orchestral version of Beethoven's op. 131 Quartet. This absence of fortuitous controlled accidents probably explains why classical music is struggling to retain its current audience, yet alone win new converts..
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2020-07-19 11:30:18
This Exhibition Invited Visitors To Steal The Art. How Long Did It Take For The Place To Be Stripped Bare?
Roughly nine minutes. In famously low-crime Japan, no less. Organizer Tota Hasegawa, owner of the Same Gallery in Tokyo, had expected the “Stealable Art Exhibition” to run for ten days, but so many aspiring thieves showed up for the midnight start time last weekend that he had to open the doors half an hour early. […]
2020-01-27 00:55:00
Tom Quick: Black History Month Broadcast and Streaming No. 375 for thegrand@101 on February 9/2020
But Not Forgotten: Music by African-American Composers for Clarinet & Piano Marcus Eley, clarinet Lucerne DeSa, piano Sono Luminus Tom Quick is again broadcasting and streaming Black History Month programs of classical music from Wellington, Ontario, Canada on www.thegrand.com101: BLACK HISTORY MONTH. The Women’s Philharmonic: The Oak. Florence Price. 12.40 Conductor. Apo Hsu. Er-Gene Kahng: Violin Violin Concerto No.2 Florence Price. 14.20 Janacek Philharmonic, Conductor. Ryan Cockerham. Thomas Hanson: Baritone. Song to the Dark Virgin Price. 1.55 Kuang-Hao Huang: Piano. My Dream. Price. 2.02 Northern Arizona Uni: Wind Sym: Three Negro Dances. Price. 4.00 Conductor. Patricia J. Hoy BREAK. Waka Hasegawa: Piano Forest Scenes “Characteristic Pieces” Coleridge-Taylor. 17.40 Malcolm J. Merriweather: Baritone. To a Brown Girl. Margaret Bonds. 2.06 Ashley Jackson: Harp. Winter Moon. “ “ 1.15 Three Dream Portraits “ “ 7.00 BREAK Eliesha Nelson; […]
2017-06-15 02:05:21
Organisers hope that More Than Musical's 90-minute version of La Traviata and the Bel Canto Singers' 22 Mozart songs in an original Cantonese story will whet the appetite for opera newcomers to see original full-scale versions Do you love the arias and choruses but can't imagine sitting through a 3A1 2-hour opera? New, dramatic, interpretations of Verdi and Mozart opera classics with hectic Hongkongers in mind may be just the ticket.
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