America in the 21st Century: everyday is headed toward being a memorial day.
Mostly tonal, mostly formal
America in the 21st Century: everyday is headed toward being a memorial day.
Let me begin with a disclaimer: I can’t take any more of the live streaming music. I wrote about this in the May issue of the Brooklyn Rail and the Red Hook Star-Revue. In short, it’s like watching practice, there’s no connection between player and listener nor across the group of listeners. It may be …
The Metropolitan Opera is not coming back.
Live-streaming music was only supposed to be a stopgap—it seems musicians were eager to jump into it, thinking it was only temporary. Well, now it’s the new normal, and its unsustainable. There are so many factors that make live streaming jejune, at best, and aggravation is the normal effect. The poor sound quality of most …
Opera Philadelphia will be streaming five productions, starting Friday, May 1, and running through May 29, on their YouTube page and at operaphila.org. Like other streaming opera presenters, there’s a schedule for when each of the performances will be available: Denis & Katya (Philip Venables) , premiering May 1, 8pm, available through May 8, 7pm …
Tonight, April 29. 7:30—Timo Andres will live stream a recital he was schedule to give at Carnegie Hall, same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel. I was planning on reviewing this, so was feeling the loss, and now some gain. Tune in at his YouTube channel above or via this link. Here’s the program, it’s the good stuff: …
I’ve been trying to work myself back into listen to music in my personal library. Even though I’ve managed to recover from the bulk of my major depression, the process of choosing and sticking with something is still weighted and thwarted by substantial anxiety. But I got through Mahler 4 this morning, and now I’m …
Ólafsson is a wonderful musician. His recordings are excellent, he has the kind of clarity and naturalness that presents classical music as just music, something that is beautiful and there for any kind of listener. He’s on the edge of being like Gould or Richter, someone you just listen to regardless.
