Garrick Ohlsson: How to Make a Piano Sing

Try as we might...

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has a little featurette on NPR's Performance Today web site called How to Make a Piano Sing, which offers some downloadable music by Ohlsson and even a video clip. The item plugs Ohlsson's appearance on Live From Lincoln Center on August 2 at the opening of the Mostly Mozart Festival.

Mr. Ohlsson will perform an all-Beethoven recital for the Celebrity Series on February 10, 2007 at NEC's Jordan Hall.

Pass Go, Get Cash Back

In yet another development cleverly designed to divide the generations, the UK edition of Monopoly has replaced play money with play credit cards and a reader - read about it (and weep) here.

On the other hand, a few years ago, Hasbro began offering free, printable online pdfs of Monopoly money for download. Does the Federal Reserve Bank know about these guys...?

Thanks, as always, to boingboing.net.

"In the Beginning was Sound" Barenboim Lecture #1

Here is a terrific item I bookmarked months ago and just rediscovered. All five of conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim's Reith Lectures from April of this year are available online in audio, video or transcript form from BBC Radio 4. The first Barenboim lecture is entitled In the Beginning was Sound. Recent (back to 1999) and historic (Bertrand Russell from 1948, John Kenneth Galbraith from 1966) Reith Lectures are also available on the site as audio files. Great stuff.

Can't remember which blog I saw this on. Let me know if it was you so you can get proper credit...

WGBH Forum Network's Tribute to New Orleans

WGBH has a large and varied collection of fascinating lectures available as podcasts on their WGBH Forum Network. While I recommend dedicated podcasters explore all the offerings, one group of lectures has particular resonance for this blog in light of our season opening benefit with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on October 15. The Tribute to New Orleans Series features 10 lectures covering topics such as bio-diversity, epidemiology, climate change, global philanthropy and the history of jazz.

Baker's Dozen!

 
This blog reached 13,000 page views this weekend. What began as an unassuming little link post covering Celebrity Series performing artists has now blossomed into a slightly older unassuming little link post covering Celebrity Series performing artists...

Image by Adrian Gottlieb from The Painter's Keys Community for Artists.

"Music to Sooth the Savage Searcher"

This article by David Mattison is a tremendous online resource for classical music lovers: Music to Soothe the Savage Searcher, Classical Music Databases and Web Resources

Whew! I don't know when I'll get to all of this, but maybe some of you will....good stuff!

Thanks to Bart Collins at The Well-Tempered Blog for the tip!

Bill Marx writes his last WBUR column, first blog column

Bill Marx

Here is Bill Marx's final column for WBUR Arts. In the interest of keeping this link live, I'm linking to the version on Bill's new blog, not the one on WBUR.org.