New York City Live Music Calendar for November and December 2014
Updates continuing pretty much daily throughout the month: you might want to bookmark this page and check back to see what’s new. There’s a comprehensive list of places where these shows are happening...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Michalis Kontaxakis
Hello dear Zavodovskians! The Monks have been sailing the musical seas for quite a while now. Album reviews have been our main focus, but to reach those who really live music is something we ought to...
View ArticleA musical trip from Bach to Mendelssohn
On these last twelve days I traveled musically from Johann Sebastian Bach to his great discoverer, Felix Mendelssohn. I started with Bach´s "St.John Passion", shorter (two hours) and more dramatic...
View ArticleMusic review: Capricho Arabe
A guitar concert in a 16th century church, announced months in advance, – yet an audience seemed not welcome. After crossing a busy road, tape cordoned off practically the complete pavement. Only a...
View ArticleLatin Accents at Shalin Liu
With patrons in yellow slickers, a sky occulted by fog, the surf pounding in a strong wind, and the air chilled, the atmospherics for the Rockport Chamber Music Festival on Sunday bespoke Sea Drift or...
View ArticleA choral giant. A sitar star. A Grammy winner. Musicians’ picks for Music and...
At the sixth annual Music and Beyond festival, you can step inside the novel that won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize last November. At Southminster United Church July 14, Ottawa writer Sean...
View ArticleWelcome, Bienvenue, Benvenuto, Willkommen, Välkommen, Witam, ようこそ!
Hello and thanks for stopping by to read. About me – i have been playing the classical guitar for about 30 years on and off and i often have ideas and thoughts about the music or the equipment and...
View Article#ClassicalMusic Today - October 4, 2015
In 1738 John Walsh the younger publishes Handel’s Organ Concertos, Op. 4 (Gregorian date: Oct. 15). In 1739 Handel completes his Concerto Grosso in F, Op. 6, no. 2 (Gregorian date: Oct. 15). In 1803...
View ArticleClassical music: Three upcoming UW events –- two focusing on racial diversity...
ALERT: This week’s FREE Friday Noon Musicale, from 12:15 to 1 p.m. at the First Unitarian Society of Madison 900 University Bay Drive, features classical guitarist Christopher Allen performing music by...
View ArticlePoetry with Sound and Fury
Lang Lang plays Symphony Hall (Robert Torres photo) A packed Symphony Hall heard the Celebrity Series of Boston’s presentation of Lang Lang in solo recital on Sunday. The Manchurian rock star of the...
View ArticleIntermezzo by Ponce
I take regular strolls at a nearby park and I become captivated by the peaceful scenery of birds gliding through the sky. They have no inhibition about flying (or falling). This particular picture...
View ArticleCrítica de Talento Jalisciense I de la OFJ
Los sonidos de las cuerdas y las pláticas de los asistentes llenan la sala. Las pinturas del techo cuentan mitos griegos de una sociedad que ya no aplica. El decorado del recinto, las lámparas y las...
View ArticleClassical guitarist to make debut solo performance
Zachary Seifert-Ponce started playing classical guitar when he lived in Orange County, in what he called a dangerous neighborhood. A quiet friend who surprised him with his soulful playing first...
View ArticleRenée Fleming returns: the autumnal charm of a great artist
August 18, 1991. First performance at the Colón of the revival of Mozart´s "The Marriage of Figaro" in a new production by Sergio Renán. An Argentine-Spanish cast except for the Countess: a beautiful...
View ArticleDallas Museum Of Art Chooses New Director
“Before assuming the directorship of the Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Arte, Agustín Arteaga served as director of Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte de Ponce. He was founding director of the Museo de Arte...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Echo & Return by Callum Henshaw - accomplished, polished and...
Echo & Return is the first recording from young Australian guitarist Callum Henshaw. And what a cracker it is! Who is Callum Henshaw? Callum began plain guitar aged just six, learning from a number...
View ArticleRecent updates to previously posted music
8/5/16 Summer Nights #7 +1CD Mendelssohn's String Quintets at the Marlboro Festival 1990 (a rip by Corrado D.) 8/5/16 In the Name of Music +1CD set Mendelssohn's Elias by Wolfgang Sawallisch (a rip by...
View ArticleFree classical music concerts at Hilton Arts Festival
Jonathan Crossley IF you love the magic of classical music, then don’t miss two free concerts at the Hilton Arts Festival in the Hilton College chapel on September 17 and September 18. Maritzburg...
View ArticleBSO Opens with Lang Lang and Russians
A glass of wine and assorted small-bite-eats prepped the capacity crowd Saturday for the opening concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 136th season (its 117th in Symphony Hall, and their third...
View ArticleRecent updates to previously posted music
10/8/16 Spanish School #2 +1CD set Albeniz's Iberia by Olivier Chauzu (2008) 10/4/16 Strauss #3 +1CD Oboe Concerto by Douglas Boyd & Paavo Berglund (1986) (+ Mozart's K. 314) 10/4/16 Strauss #3...
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