Classical music: Oakwood Chamber Players concludes its season with...
By Jacob Stockinger The Ear has received the following announcement from the outstanding Oakwood Chamber Players, known for giving fine performances of programs that feature both unusual repertoire and...
View ArticleClassical music: Longtime musical partners singer Kathleen Otterson and...
By Jacob Stockinger The Ear received the following note from Edgewood College faculty singer Kathleen Otterson and thought it worth passing along because if its timeliness and local interest: I’d like...
View ArticleCurious Flights concludes its 2015-2016 season with a massive undertaking
Last night in the Concert Hall of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Curious Flights presented the final program of its 2015-2016 season . The first half of the program was devoted to three songs...
View ArticleAmerican Opera - 2
Jack Beeson (1921-2010)THE SWEET BYE AND BYE (1956; rev. 1958) Kansas City Lyric Theater, dir : Russell PattersonRogers, Anthony, James, Seibel, Hook Citadel CT-DOS-2000 Recorded 1974FLAC, cuesheets,...
View ArticleClassical music: What music would you play to honor and mourn the dead,...
By Jacob Stockinger It has been a week now. A very long, hard and emotional week. The Ear has heard some classical music dedicated to the victims — 49 killed, some 50 wounded and countless traumatized...
View ArticleSanta Fe Opera Celebrates 60th Season: Five operas, apprentice series offered...
Editor’s Note: Watch for Terry Mathews’ travelogue of Northern New Mexico in September’s issues. She will review the operas, restaurants, art scene and, of course, all things O’Keeffe. Santa Fe’s...
View ArticleWhat Happened To America’s Mid-20th Century Composers?
“I’ve never understood why the music of America’s midcentury modern composers disappeared from our concert halls. Not only is it “entertaining,” but it speaks to ordinary listeners in a direct,...
View ArticleNarcissus Had No Selfie Stick
They are banned in many galleries, concert venues and amusement parks. But when I visited the Vatican Museums last week, they appeared in front of every painting and every sculpture: selfie sticks ....
View ArticleSamuel Barber's Wintry Tale
It nearly didn't happen. As the general director explained, SFO's 60th season planned to feature the world premiere of a work by Mason Bates, The evolution of Steve Jobs. via Topix - Classical Music...
View ArticleEmily Pailthorpe: Better Angels CD review – intriguing set of luscious...
Pailthorpe/BBCSO/Brabbins (Champs Hill)Oboist Emily Pailthorpe has put together an intriguing programme from the limited repertoire available. She begins with a lusciously long-breathed account of...
View ArticleClassical music: Why aren’t America’s modernist composers as well as known as...
By Jacob Stockinger Recently, the culture critic Terry Teachout posed an interesting question in a column he wrote for The Wall Street Journal . Why, he asked, aren’t America ’s 20th-century modernist...
View ArticleVanessa, Santa Fe Opera — review
An engrossing production of Samuel Barber’s opera draws parallels to film noir(c) FT.com Music All the news about classical music and opera in press and media
View Article2016/2017 Concert Series
We are delighted to be heading into our third season! This season, we are offering three MainStage programmes (October, March and May), and a new stream of concerts called PMC Lite. The MainStage...
View ArticleOctober Programme
The opening concert programme of the 2016/2017 series of the PMC’s third season explores the works of American composers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Dominick Argento and Terry Riley. Tickets to this...
View ArticleWere there no sound, how could there be silence?
Conceptually, we think that sound is sound and silence is silence. The two seem neatly separated and distinct - in fact opposite of each other. But this is only how we think, how we conceptualize. This...
View ArticleMasterclass with Simone Porter, October 27
Simone Porter The celebrated young violinist Simone Porter will be joining the Nashville Symphony this fall for two performances of Samuel Barber’s spectacular Violin Concerto under the direction of...
View ArticleCindy McTee 'Adagio for String Orchestra': An Engaging Experience
Evening readers! Welcome to Day 12 of my Female Fortnight Challenge, apologies for this blog being posted so late – it has been a hectic day indeed! Today’s blog is on modern-day composer Cindy McTee’s...
View ArticleOctober Programme
The opening concert programme of the 2016/2017 series of the PMC’s third season explores the works of American composers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Dominick Argento and Terry Riley. Tickets to this...
View ArticlePlano Debut Lifts Gloom
Roberto Plano (file photo) A luscious rendering of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 from the Italian virtuoso Roberto Plano and the Boston Civic Symphony lifted us out of Sunday’s gloom. Plano’s...
View ArticleMSM Inaugural Benefit Concert MUSIC FOR A BETTER WORLD on Thursday Oct 13, 2016
Concert organized by MSM Student Adam Goldstein supports Suicide Prevention and the Jed Foundation “The idea came to me at the end of first semester last year, when I couldn’t get to sleep,” recalls...
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