An early song about Chicago
Probably everyone knows, or at least knows about, “Chicago, That Toddlin’ Town” and “My Kind of Town.” Frank Sinatra sang …Read the Rest
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Children and classical music
My parents–my father especially–love classical music. When I was growing up, Dad always had a record on whenever he had …Read the Rest
Menuhin on Toscanini
As a teenager, violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto under the baton of the volatile Arturo Toscanini. While …Read the Rest
But cell phones hadn’t been invented yet! (A Beethoven eccentricity)
As recently as ten years ago, it seemed strange to see someone walking down the street talking to no one …Read the Rest
Concerto for Orchestra by Béla Bartók
Bartók and his wife fled their native Hungary and moved to New York in 1940, shortly after he composed his …Read the Rest
How old is that trombone joke? Really?
When I was in fifth grade, just learning trombone, one of my friends, who was learning clarinet, asked me how …Read the Rest
Klemperer on Mahler
Otto Klemperer met Gustav Mahler when he had the opportunity to conduct the off-stage brass at a performance of the …Read the Rest
A cruel abuse of classical music
Life has begun to imitate life in the worst way. In Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange (written in 1962), …Read the Rest
The birth of an ancient tradition: the gorsedd at the eisteddfod
The eisteddfod, a traditional Welsh competition in literature and music, has served for a little over two centuries as a …Read the Rest
Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 73
In December 1874 Tchaikovsky completed his first piano concerto, having worked on it for a month and dedicated it to …Read the Rest
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