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A little bombast for the first mystery clip in some time: the final section of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Your mission: identify the conductor. One helpful clue: there’s something, well, a little different about the coda.
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Answer will be published at 1500 EST Friday.
David Rice’s review of LvdE is up at Classical Source, as is Elizabeth Barnette’s review of the final concert.
David Rice’s review is live at Classical Source.
I’ve been saying it for years: do the denizens of Washington, DC realize what a joke they have become outside of their enclave? Go read Michael Winship’s edifying takedown of both press and politicians in the nation’s capitol.
The choir was a mere 120 singers. The boychoir a minuscule 40. And Carnegie Hall’s electric abomination of an “organ” should be put out of its misery (three simple words on this matter for Carnegie Hall’s management and donors: Marshall and Ogletree). But what a Mahler Eighth. Pierre Boulez…
My review of Wednesday evening’s Barenboim/SKB Mahler concert is live at Classical Source. NOTE: Blogging is likely to be on the light side for the next couple of weeks as private life intervenes.
My review of Monday evening’s Barenboim/SKB soloists all-Carter recital is live at Classical Source. I was not officially covering last evening’s performance of…
Elizabeth Barnette’s review of the Staatskapelle Berlin’s third and fourth concert…
Courtesy of the Onion News Network comes this report on hardcore Trekkies’ unanimous disappointment over JJ Abrams’ new film, “Star Trek”.