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Monday, November 30, 2009
Charles Ives gets a green light
"Never you mind what the Ladies' Committee says, my opinion is that God gets awfully tired of hearing the same thing over and over again."
-John C. Griggs, Choirmaster at New Haven (CT)'s Centre Church to organist Charles Ives
Charles Ives' first string quartet leads off the Emerson String Quartet's program this Friday at Jordan Hall.
-John C. Griggs, Choirmaster at New Haven (CT)'s Centre Church to organist Charles Ives
Charles Ives' first string quartet leads off the Emerson String Quartet's program this Friday at Jordan Hall.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Samuel Barber: composing in, football out
"Dear Mother: I have written to tell you my worrying secret. Now don’t
cry when you read it because it is neither yours nor my fault. I
suppose I will have to tell it now, without any nonsense. To begin with
I was not meant to be an athlete. I was meant to be a composer, and
will be I’m sure. I’ll ask you one more thing .—Don’t ask me to try to
forget this unpleasant thing and go play football.—Please—Sometimes
I’ve been worrying about this so much that it makes me mad (not very)."
-Samuel Barber, at age 9
The Emerson String Quartet will perform Samuel Barber's Adagio for String Quartet, Opus 11, and selections by Ives, Janacek and Shostakovich on Friday, December 4 at Jordan Hall. The performance will not be followed by a game of touch football (as far as we know), but you are welcome to organize one.
cry when you read it because it is neither yours nor my fault. I
suppose I will have to tell it now, without any nonsense. To begin with
I was not meant to be an athlete. I was meant to be a composer, and
will be I’m sure. I’ll ask you one more thing .—Don’t ask me to try to
forget this unpleasant thing and go play football.—Please—Sometimes
I’ve been worrying about this so much that it makes me mad (not very)."
-Samuel Barber, at age 9
The Emerson String Quartet will perform Samuel Barber's Adagio for String Quartet, Opus 11, and selections by Ives, Janacek and Shostakovich on Friday, December 4 at Jordan Hall. The performance will not be followed by a game of touch football (as far as we know), but you are welcome to organize one.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Recent previews & reviews: Vega, Sondheim and the Berlin Phil
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic at Symphony Hall on Sunday (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Suzanne Vega (November 6, Sanders Theatre)
An Evening With Stephen Sondheim (November 14, Sanders Theatre)
The Hub Review (Thomas Garvey)
Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle, conducting (November 15, Symphony Hall)
The Boston Globe (Jeremy Eichler)The Hub Review (Thomas Garvey)
The Boston Phoenix (Lloyd Schwartz)Real pain for my SPAM friends #326
SPAM, while annoying, does have its pleasures. I love the ambiguity of today's spam comment:
"your blog too enjoyful."
Is it so enjoyful that they just can't stand it?
Is it "just too much, man?"
I don't really want to know the answer any more than I want to try the ant-herpes product they're hawking...
"your blog too enjoyful."
Is it so enjoyful that they just can't stand it?
Is it "just too much, man?"
I don't really want to know the answer any more than I want to try the ant-herpes product they're hawking...
Friday, November 13, 2009
Boston Globe talks with Sir Simon Rattle
Sir Simon Rattle
David Weininger of the Globe had a chat with Berlin Philharmonic conductor Sir Simon Rattle in advance of the orchestra's appearance at Symphony Hall this Sunday:
"Rattle is especially glad to be reconnecting with Boston. He nourishes
fond memories of the orchestra - 'I had the best time there, I tell
you' - and especially of Symphony Hall. He found the 2007 concert [by the Celebrity Series with Ben Heppner and Thomas Quasthoff] so
satisfying that 'all of us in Berlin felt, we have to play there again.'"
Read all of For Rattle, things look up as he looks ahead.
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