What’s in a number (Dvořák)?
Some music has distinctive titles, like Romeo and Juliette or The Tree-Cornered Hat. More than one composer might use the …Read the Rest
Monthly Archives: February 2010
The Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi
Ottorino Respighi became what seemed unthinkable a hundred years ago: an Italian composer of orchestral music. He composed no successful …Read the Rest
Budget cutting: follow-up to Joshua Bell post
I have just learned from another blog that the Monroe County school district (Bloomington, Indiana) has decided to eliminate the …Read the Rest
Joshua Bell in the subway: what does it mean?
On January 12, 2007, Joshua Bell took his Stradivarius violin to the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station in Washington, D.C. and …Read the Rest
Jeux by Claude Debussy
Debussy wrote his last ballet and last orchestral work, Jeux, (or Games for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe, with Vaslav Nijinsky …Read the Rest
Beethoven plays a new concerto
Nowadays, soloists in a concerto play from memory, especially pianists. Occasionally, players of other instruments will use written music, but …Read the Rest
The Fantasticks: book and lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt
Musicals, or at least so it seemed according to the example set by Irving Berlin or Rogers and Hammerstein, ought …Read the Rest
An experimental brass band in 1832
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the only possible all-brass ensemble was the cavalry band, which could only play …Read the Rest
Trois gymnopédies by Erik Satie
Erik Satie, an eccentric composer of minor talent but great imagination, exercised enormous influence on twentieth-century musical thought. Above all …Read the Rest
A historical perspective on orchestra concerts: programing and ritual
Today, American orchestra concerts usually have three or four pieces. In one very typical formula, they have some kind of …Read the Rest
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