http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/?refid=0 Personal perspectives on the world of classical music. Copyright 2009, Minnesota Public Radio Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:35:38 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Alison Young I looked up "Classic" in the dictionary and it says "serving as a standard of excellence; of recognized value." In classical music we might add that it's something that endures. Recently, my colleague Ward Jacobson posted a blog about which... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/hear_the_music.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/hear_the_music.shtml Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:35:38 CST Gillian Martin The Melbourne Symphony recently parted ways with its Music Director, Oleg Caetani, a year before his contract ran out. This fact, and the success of a recent guest conductor, has the orchestra's president wondering if they need a single music... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/melbourne_symph.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/melbourne_symph.shtml Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:14:46 CST Ward Jacobson My colleague Julie Amacher shared this entry from Friday's Arts Journal website. The question? Which 10 living composers will still be played in 50 years' time? The Arts Journal site paired it down to five locks: Birtwistle, Boulez, Rautavaara, Reich... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/time_to_weigh_i.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/time_to_weigh_i.shtml Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:34:45 CST Alison Young Earlier this fall, Michael Kaiser, the President of the Kennedy Center, made his way to Saint Paul to talk with about 250 arts presenters. Many of those anxiously hung on every word of the Turnaround King's advice for staying in... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/can_orchestras.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/can_orchestras.shtml Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:52:35 CST Ward Jacobson Back in Mozart's day, the Divertimento was considered light-hearted, background music. Just don't give it that label today! Tonight's EURO CLASSIC concert on Classical Minnesota Public Radio is a performance of Mozart's Divertimento in E flat, with the Balkan Chamber... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/tonights_euro_c.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/tonights_euro_c.shtml Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:36:23 CST Gillian Martin The Honolulu Symphony had struggled financially for the last couple of years. Its musicians have sometimes gone months without paychecks. Now its board has cancelled the rest of its 2009 concerts and filed for bankruptcy.... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/oldest_orchestr.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/oldest_orchestr.shtml Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:49:44 CST Alison Young Just read an interesting piece about pianists as super-heroes, raising the issue of whether a piano soloist's job is to wow us with pyrotechnics or make beautiful music (hopefully both.) It brought to mind a conversation I had with the... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/virtuoso_or_fin.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/virtuoso_or_fin.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:33:29 CST John Birge The BBC reports that Durham Cathedral, one of the England's oldest and largest, has admitted girls to its traditional choir of men and boys. The girls sang Evensong last Sunday. Going forward, the choir will have 20 boys and 20... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/classical_grrl.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/classical_grrl.shtml Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:43:00 CST Rex Levang The financial and legal ordeal of composer Peter Maxwell Davies, who had been defrauded by his former manager, has reached some kind of closure. Details here, including the revenge that the composer is mulling over.... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/composing_well.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/composing_well.shtml Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:39:05 CST Ward Jacobson Okay all you classical music night owls, there's another Euro Classic coming up late tonight. Just past midnight I'll present an exclusive recording featuring the Aviv Quartet playing the Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F. Shostakovich himself thought this... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/this_weeks_euro.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/this_weeks_euro.shtml Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:15:42 CST Gillian Martin While conductor James Levine's medical leave keeps getting longer, another American conductor has cancelled a couple of weeks worth of concerts. Current Detroit Symphony music director Leonard Slatkin gave new definition to the phrase "the show must go on" Sunday... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/another_america.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/another_america.shtml Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:26:50 CST Ward Jacobson In the previous blog, my colleague Alison Young talked about dressing as an SPCO musician wannabe Halloween night in St. Paul. Down I-94 in Minneapolis that night, Orchestra Hall was handing out fake eye-glasses to patrons (many in costume) attending... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/halloween_with.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/halloween_with.shtml Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:52:57 CST Alison Young Last night at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Halloween concert, a long black formal served as my costume. I went as an SPCO musician-wannabe. When I sit in the host's chair at Classical MPR, I often air-conduct or air-play all... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/air_musician_an.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/11/air_musician_an.shtml Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:38:56 CST Ward Jacobson Word from Michael Barone about the death Wednesday night of Minnesota organist and composer Paul Manz, whose most famous choral work is the Advent motet "E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come." In 2001, Manz was featured in a PIPEDREAMS program... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/10/post.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/10/post.shtml Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:17:53 CDT Rex Levang Add composer John Adams to the list of prominent musical bloggers. Go here to see his jottings on air travel, taking his pointer Eloise to the dog show, preparing a work for its world premiere, and more. We have a... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/10/blogger_adams.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/10/blogger_adams.shtml Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:07:07 CDT