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Classical music livestreams are boring

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San Diego had big plans for classical music this summer

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San Diego Symphony on glaciers or Schumann on the Rhein?

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The parallels of Beethoven and Goya

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Classical music livestreams are boring

I wish I could find the wherewithal to be a fan of classical music in the age of streaming. For a while I watched out of obligation. Obligation turned to ...

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San Diego had big plans for classical music this summer

Summer classical music in San Diego has followed a glorious pattern for as long as most of us can remember. The Mainly Mozart Festival welcomes the summer in June. The ...

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San Diego Symphony on glaciers or Schumann on the Rhein?

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.” – Robert Schumann “Art is whatever you can get away with.” – John ...

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The parallels of Beethoven and Goya

During the shelter-in-place era, I’ve been covering a lot of ground, relative to my normal consumption, in the realm of high culture. I’ve read books which I’ve been putting off ...

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What classical groups will be left in San Diego?

There are some real concerns out there regarding the future of many classical music organizations. I don’t want to come off as unsympathetic, but the destruction of these organizations by the COVID-19 situation won’t mean ...

April 29, 2020

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Mahler, Wagner, Elgar, Dvorak – for us stay-at-homes

There’s one thing we all have in common at this time. We are all required to spend a lot of time at home. All this seclusion got me to thinking about music which I associate ...

April 24, 2020

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April 14, 2020

All 32 of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas.

A few weeks ago I outlined some binge listening plans. I’ve completed two of them. The first was all 32 of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas. The second was a survey of Baroque music. The Beethoven took ...

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April 10, 2020

Payare conducts Wagner, Bartok, Mahler, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff next season

“As we all know very well, music has a unique power to heal the human soul. In music, there are no boundaries of language or limits of understanding." Rafael Payare, music director, San Diego Symphony. ...

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April 3, 2020

My April classical music schedule

As Shelter in Place is extended to at least the end of April, I mourn the loss of some potentially fantastic concerts in San Diego. To replace those experiences, I’m considering a few listening projects ...

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March 27, 2020

Can't complain about live streaming from the Met

When, in an opera, the staging, acting, and costumes, are all misguided to bad, what’s left? The singing? What if the singing is just okay? What’s left is The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Wagner’s Das ...

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March 20, 2020

Who will compose music for Covid-19?

There’s Covid-19 and then there’s the Black Death. The height of the Black Death was between the years of 1347-1351. Estimates for the number of deaths in, during the Black Death, range to 200 million. ...

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March 9, 2020

Bramwell Tovey natters on about William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar

On Saturday, March 7, it was English Night at Symphony Hall, and I like that sort of thing. I like it even better when it’s played as nearly to perfection as I can tell, particularly ...

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Conductor Eun Sun Kim kept the orchestra in check during the Sibelius

Ah, the impermanence of all things. After last week’s peak musical experience at the San Diego Symphony, we were bound to come down off the mountaintop. The concert on Friday, February 28, was good but ...

March 3, 2020

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Stefan Jackiw's sound tone rang out to the back of the house

The San Diego Symphony is on a roll! The previous two concerts, which I have attended, have been nothing short of spectacular. The most recent endeavor was Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11: ...

February 28, 2020

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February 20, 2020

Identity politics and classical music need to stay out of bed with each other.

The San Francisco Examiner reports on Feb 18, 2020: A striking aspect of the programming is Salonen’s Collaborative Partners project, announced last year, featuring contributions by: pianist, film producer and composer Nicholas Britell; soprano, curator ...

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February 14, 2020

Mirella Freni was irresistible

Mirella Freni, one of the greatest singers of all time, has died at the age of 84. Freni was a singer I returned to time and time again. By the time I was getting into ...

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Classical music livestreams are boring

San Diego had big plans for classical music this summer

San Diego Symphony on glaciers or Schumann on the Rhein?

The parallels of Beethoven and Goya

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