One of my favorite stories from music history concerns the audience reaction at the première of Igor Stravinsky‘s ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite …
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Category Archives: concerts
NaBloPoMo Day 22! You know, I have a confession to make: I thought it would be pretty easy to capture my experience of hearing Mahler’s …
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NaBloPoMo Day 21! Yesterday I gave a bit of history and background about Mahler and his 9th (including the rather important role his music has …
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NaBloPoMo Day 20! My first real date with McDoc (which, I told him, was not a date, just as our two previous dates had also …
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NaBloPoMo Day 19! Well, rats! :grr: I wanted to write my review of Mahler’s 9th today, and it occurred to me that it would be …
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NaBloPoMo Day 18! This afternoon I attended the Detroit Symphony‘s performance of Gustav Mahler‘s Symphony no. 9. I’m going to write about it, you can …
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NaBloPoMo Day 11! Another quick post, while the follow-up to yesterday percolates… It’s hard to believe it, but it’s been nearly a year since McDoc …
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I didn’t expect that committing myself to a month of daily blogging would send me off on a nostalgia trip (for one thing, I’m uncomfortable with the notion that I’m old enough to be capable of nostalgia 😥 ). But the discussion of my Bartók String Quartet Watershed Moment brought up the memory of what has to be one of my top ten classical concert-going experiences of all time.
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NaBloPoMo Day 4! A couple of pianos from my San Diego whirlwind Theremin Concerto première tour didn’t make it into my previous KOTW post, because …
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Time to post the latest keyboard pics from my recent travels! It has taken much longer than usual to get these from meatspace to cyberspace, …
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