Back in January, something disastrous happened at the New York Philharmonic. During a performance of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, at one of the most silent parts in the piece, a cell phone began to ring. The owner … Continue reading
I never correlated classical music with the modern dance of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. This American choreographer of the 20th century never evoked the image of one who appreciates sonatas, rondos or symphonies. The only classical dance that comes … Continue reading
On Monday, April 23rd I went to go see “The Alexander String Quartet.” All of us have seen them atleast once and know that they are great musicians. They are made up of Zakarias Grafilo (Violin 1), Frederick Lifsitz … Continue reading
On the Afternoon of March 18th, 2012 New York City Opera performed their rendition of Mozart’s opera entitled, ‘Cosi Fan Tutte.’ This production took place at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater, which is located within John Jay College. Tommasini begins his … Continue reading
Lang Lang, a superstar pianist, has received enormous compliments as well as critics on his performance. “Still, no fair-minded person can deny that Mr. Lang has stupendous technique and keen musical instincts.” commented Anthony Tommasini on Lang Lang performance of Bartok’s … Continue reading
Anthony Tommasini from the New York Times has written an article in “Artsbeat” recently entitled “Adapting, Revising, Provoking”. He says that there are mixed feelings among the public about creative teams revamping productions of operas and musicals. He talks about … Continue reading
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/music/quartet-variations-at-the-chamber-music-society-of-lincoln-center.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=allankozinn&adxnnlx=1332293992-5ELTUXp3TnDS6aFiIyXGlw In the article “Composers Are Familiar, but Not the Compositions,” Allan Kozinn writes about Mozart’s String Quartet in C Minor (K. 406) as being a”dark, tumultuous score” after hearing it being performed live by the Chamber Music Society of … Continue reading
Article: http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/a-real-mess/ Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQJlXAwROc With the growing preponderance of social media and critics’ eagle eyes in almost every creative and communications discipline, it has become extremely difficult to plagiarize anything… and not get caught. This poses a big problem today only because, … Continue reading
Charles Neidich in the clarinet and Joshua Grunmann in the piano became an interesting combination of classical music I’ve ever head before. The interesting introduction Charles Neidich gave in the beginning got my attention. He started by saying that, when … Continue reading
For my final blog post, I spent a Sunday afternoon at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts watching solo pianist Charles Jones perform pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and Ravel. Being a pianist myself, I was looking … Continue reading