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as ye sow… HINDEMITH Overture to Neues vom Tage HINDEMITH Trauermusik FRIEDMAN Sacred Heart: Explosion INTERMISSION BERLIOZ Harold in Italy ...

Oy Vey! DVORÁK Symphony No. 8 INTERMISSION OLIVER Federal Street (Great God, we sing that mighty hand) HATTON Duke Street (O God, beneath th...

Bicket’s charge VIVALDI Piccolo Concerto in C Major RAMEAU Suite from Les Boréades INTERMISSION VIVALDI The Four Seasons Harry Bicket, condu...

Yesterday’s news couldn’t have been better, as far as I’m concerned. But knowing how things go, the next milestone to look out for is the f...

Aversion to talk is something orchestra musicians have inherited from manual laborers. -Theodor Adorno WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tr...

why is this week different from all other weeks? BERIO Ritirata Notturna di Madrid SALONEN Piano Concerto INTERMISSION BEETHOVEN Symphon...

It was the best of times… BERLIOZ Romeo and Juliet Valery Gergiev, conductor Isabel Leonard, soprano Michael Schade, tenor Laurent Naouri, ...

out with the new! SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony for Strings in C Minor BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 INTERMISSION SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 (...

After a week off, back to the grind MOZART Piano Concerto No. 13 MOZART Divertimento for Strings in D Major INTERMISSION MOZART Piano Concer...

Ars Viva Beethoven Creatures of Prometheus Corigliano Elegy (for Samuel Barber) Barber Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”)...

The comments by Max were important enough to deal with in a separate post. Does anyone besides me read comments? Just curious. Insouk asks i...

all over again Sometime before dawn Sunday morning I woke up in a cold sweat. A quick check of my schedule confirmed my fears; we did play ...

December 12-23 This week at the world’s gratingest orchestra DVORÁK Slavonic Dances MOZART Oboe Concerto INTERMISSION BIZET Suite No. 2 fro...

This week’s CSO program SIBELIUS Violin Concerto INTERMISSION BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major (Romantic) (1880 version) Christoph vo...

In spite of the fascinating things I’ve been blogging about lately – boring tour travel, uneaten breakfasts, bass boxes, and the like – the ...

About an hour into the first rehearsal of the Bruckner 7th under Bernard Haitink I had a disquieting thought. The Bruckner symphonies were ...

The CSO concerts this week have an interesting programming idea from conductor Kent Nagano. Rihm’s Das Lesen der Schrift was apparently comm...

This week’s CSO program Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 Haydn Symphony No. 96 (The Miracle) INTERMISSION Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 Jeffrey K...

Playing Tchaikovsky this week under Andrey Boreyko was generally a positive experience – he’s a nice man with good musical ideas. One thing ...