Archive for January 26th, 2023
1-26-2023 A Tale of Schumann and Chou Chou.
Recently I did a podcast for the Candlelight Concert Society on Robert Schumann’s masterpiece Kreisleriana. The piece is inspired by E. T. A. Hoffmann’s writings about his fictional alter ego the Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler. The work is also influenced by Hoffmann’s writings about the tomcat Murr, with whom and by […]
Thursday 1/26/23 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 2 DEBUSSY: The Sunken Cathedral SCRIABIN: The Poem of Ecstasy Markus Stenz, conductor; Behzod Abduraimov, piano
International Shakespeare Theatre Association honors CSC founder
Ian Gallanar, Founding Artistic Director of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, has received the 2023 Sandra and Sidney Berger Award from the international Shakespeare Theatre Association. Ian has philanthropic plans about putting the award to good use, and he came in to talk to me about them.
Playlist: Jan/26/23
10:17 PM Antonin Dvorak — Cello Concerto Key: B minor Opus: 104Conductor: Mariss JansonsEnsemble: Oslo Philharmonic OrchestraTruls Mork, celloVirgin, 59325 10:01 PM Joseph Haydn — Piano Sonata No. 34 Key: D major Emanuel Ax, pianoCBS/Sony, 89363 9:54 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Cosi Fan Tutte: Overture Conductor: Sir Neville MarrinerAngel/EMI, 47014 9:42 PM Fernando Sor […]