Posts Tagged ‘Baltimore Symphony’
9-13-12 BSO Gala 2012!
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking with Baltimore Symphony Music Director Marin Alsop about the upcoming gala which takes place on Saturday 9/15. We talked about their amazing guest soloist Rene Flemming and the Orchids. This year’s gala looks like a really interesting event. Check out the interview by clicking below. […]
B(l)iss
I would love to be a fly on the wall when Jonathan Biss is practicing in the privacy of his apartment to see if he is as physical then as he is on the concert platform. He is what you might call and mover and shaker in front of the keyboard–bending low, arcing back, fidgeting […]
The Passion of Joan of Arc
When Renée, sometime known as “Maria”, Falconetti’s long hair was cut off, she wept. That was the beginning of her journey in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc. Composer, Richard Einhorn was so captivated by the film he wrote music to accompany it called, Voices of Light. I hope you […]
McGegan’s joie de vivre
I’ve blogged once before about how some conductors convey the architecture of the music through their gestures and body language. With Nicholas McGegan, who conducted Bach, Rameau, Haydn and Mozart with the BSO this weekend, he conveys the sheer joy of music. He is like a little fireball on the podium, and if he needs […]
Halleluja!
The last thing Music Director Edward Polochick did after his performance of Messiah was hold up Handel’s great score. What a composer! What a score! What a performance by Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra lead by Ed Polochick! Concert Artists of Baltimore have performed Messiah every year now for […]
Alexander Nevsky
It’s hard to believe it was 8 years ago that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Yuri Temirkanov, performed Alexander Nevsky accompanying the 1938 film. As I recall it was a cold November night as I made my way to the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. I remember it being cold as there was a […]
BSO Timeline
Did you know that Siegfried Wagner was the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s first guest conductor in 1924? He conducted music by his father, Richard Wagner, and his grandfather, Franz Liszt. Did you know that the March King, John Philip Sousa, appeared at a BSO children’s concert in 1930? And did you know that in February, 1965 […]
Sculpting the music
You know how sometimes you can look at a conductor and wonder what their actual function is during the concert? It looks as if their beat is difficult to follow or it seems as if the orchestra is playing along with very little input from him or her, and you have to assume that it’s […]
Tortelier and the BSO
What an interesting program Yan Pascal Tortelier conducted with the BSO this weekend! For one thing, I was struck by the fact that he didn’t have any French music in the line-up. Then, it was so unusual for him to start with the symphony, and have the concerto and overture (in that order!) after the […]
