Annie Fullard, Director of Chamber Music at Peabody Conservatory and founding member of the Cavani String Quartet, along with Dorianne Cotter-Lockard, who is on the faculty at Saybrook University and consults in the areas of team collaboration and music education, have published a book called The Art of Collaboration: Chamber Music Rehearsal Techniques and Team Building, […]
I’m always happy to hear the Strauss Oboe Concerto on WBJC, as it’s a wonderful piece, one of Richard Strauss’ best works, classical in form and free of the operatic dissonance that characterized his later works. It’s also a pleasure to hear the Philadelphia Orchestra recording with Richard Woodhams as soloist. Richard (Dick) Woodhams was […]
The Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes returns to Baltimore for a Shriver Hall Concert Series recital this Sunday. His program features sonatas by two of his compatriots, Edvard Grieg and Geirr Tveitt, along with the cycle of 24 Preludes by Frédéric Chopin. It was my pleasure to talk to him by phone. […]
This year’s Bach Marathon features selections of organ music, the Well-Tempered Clavier Vol. 1, and the cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden. I spoke with Director of Music Ministries and pianist, Douglas Buchanan.
In a one-off program at the Meyerhoff on Saturday, March 15 at 8:00 PM, BSO Music Director Jonathon Heyward celebrates Duke Ellington‘s philosophy of music “beyond category,” intermingling America’s greatest native art form with classical symphonic traditions. It was a pleasure to speak with Jonathon by phone.
Hiram Larew, who generously underwrites BookNotes through his Cynipid Fund, is out with his seventh poetry collection, This Much Very, published by Alien Buddha Press. I spoke with Hiram by phone.
Tenor Ian Bostridge and his longtime collaborator, the pianist Julius Drake, are presenting a Jacobean-era recital for the Shriver Hall Concert Series on Sunday, March 9. It was my pleasure to speak to Ian by phone.
BSO Music Director Jonathon Heyward collaborates with Augustin Hadelich for Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto in a program that also includes Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Bohuslav Martinů’s Memorial to Lidice, which quotes from Beethoven’s great work. It was a pleasure to speak with Jonathon by phone.
One of the things in which I take great pride—and for which I can take no credit—is that I share my birthday with that most refined and enigmatic of French composers, Maurice Ravel. This month, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth on March 7, 1875. Some quick and random facts: Maurice […]
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director Jonathon Heyward conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 featuring soprano Julia Bullock in the finale. Heyward and Bullock also collaborate on Jessie Montgomery’s Five Freedom Songs. It was a pleasure to speak with Jonathon by phone about the program.
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