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Beatbugs and hyperinstruments – A new Toy Symphony
Tod Machover is full of intellectual charm and artistic conviction. He even has authentically Beethovenian (or ’mad professor’) hair and Schubertian spectacles. In the offices of his publisher, Boosey and...
Slatkin and the NSO – On the Road (and in the sky) again
Music is in the air. Or at least 100 musicians are. It’s May 19th and the National Symphony is flying from Madrid to Lisbon to play the last of its...
Yevgeny Svetlanov
A concert conducted by Yevgeny Svetlanov was always keenly anticipated. Sometimes expectations were dashed, but more usually one came away enlightened and exhilarated. His death last Friday, 3 May 2002,...
Slatkin and the NSO on the road
During the month of May, the National Symphony Orchestra will be making a tour of various European cities. Going on the road is always an exciting and arduous adventure. The...
“I try not to have too many dreams”
Valentina Igoshina’s story sounds like a fairy tale, in the telling as well as in the facts. Her international career started when she won the “Artur Rubinstein Memorial Competition” in...
The Saul Seminars – Mitsuko Uchida
Mitsuko Uchida is not only one of the world’s finest pianists; she is also a compelling speaker. It is widely known that her vivacity and enthusiasm infects her lectures; she...
Whatever Happened To Alberich?
Find out this Thursday in the Barbican Hall. In my continuing series on the music of Christopher Rouse, current attention is to Wagner’s music-drama cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. What...
Leonard Slatkin – Bernstein’s three symphonies
This Thursday and Saturday in the Barbican Hall, listeners and concertgoers will have the unique opportunity to hear the three Symphonies of Leonard Bernstein played live. Now, this should not...
Morton Feldman: Composer Profile
Morton Feldman was born in New York in 1926 and died in 1987. He studied composition with two of the most radical musical minds in American music – Wallingford Riegger...
Musicians in Concorde: Mark Levy & William Lawes
How different a world is the one of Early Music? Is it simply the recreation of a past sensibility and soundworld, or does going so far back produce a musical...
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