… now that C-SPAN has put its entire, massive archive of video online. Here are five must-see clips as picked by Salon.com‘s resident Beltway junkie Steve Kornacki.
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As if the Georg Ratzinger scandal wasn’t enough…
AP reports: “Two former members of the famed Vienna Boys’ Choir say they were sexually abused by their supervisors, a top Austrian newspaper reported Thursday.” Full story here.
The Alleged Sins of Georg Ratzinger
News stories concerning alleged abuse of children by Catholic clergymen have become almost routine, but this one is also sending ripples throughout the world of classical music: the Pope’s brother, Georg Ratzinger — who served for three decades as choral director of “the much-heralded Regensburger Domspatzen, a thousand-year-old male choir and boarding school” — was involved in a conspiracy to cover up allegations of clergy sex abuse. The Independent UK has the full story.
Jurowski / LPO @ Avery Fisher
Two helpings of Shostakovich: ultraconcentrated instant Dmitri and an outsize assault that infuriated Soviet authorities. My full review at Classical Source.
Back to Mono: Petri on the CD Player
It must be nearly a decade since I’ve popped any of pianist Egon Petri’s recordings into the CD player. I’m very pleased to have made his reacquaintance.
Passionato.com Blogs, Tweets, Rocks On
If you like classical music and care about quality, you should check out Passionato.com (full disclosure: I’m helping them with Web presence expansion). Continue reading Passionato.com Blogs, Tweets, Rocks On
Hammer of the Gods: Vänskä / Minnesota Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall
Okay, so it wasn’t a hammer, but a sword — and it was only on loan from one of the gods. I’m referring to the weapon which plays a singing role in the final movement of Sibelius’s “Kullervo.” My review of last night’s concert has just gone live at Classical Source.
Bernard Coutaz, 1922-2010
Bernard Coutaz may not be a household name, but he was the founder of the influential harmonia mundi record label. The New York Times and AP have brief obituaries; Le Temps has more in French.
Wyn Morris, Champion of Mahler’s Music, 1929-2010
It has been a while since I spoke with Wyn Morris, the mercurial and brilliantly gifted conductor who made a number of pioneering recordings of the music of Gustav Mahler. I just learned this afternoon of his death at age 81. Click here to read his obituary from his own favorite Tory-leaning paper, The Telegraph.
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Kronos 25
Go read Steve Smith’s interesting NY Times feature on the Kronos Quartet — an ensemble whose revolutionary programming and concertizing laid much of the groundwork for the “alternative classics” championed by Bang on a Can, Absolut Ensemble and innumerable other adventurous ensembles and series — as they celebrate their 25th anniversary. To be honest, though, the more traditonal but often more daring Arditti Quartet deserves the same amount of ink.