Archive for March 14th, 2013

Happy Birthday, Pierre Boulez

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

by Sedgwick Clark FINAL NOTICE: MY BLOG IS NOW POSTED ON THURSDAYS RATHER THAN ON WEDNESDAYS. All scribes like to receive mail, even negative, because it shows that someone is reading us. A welcome note about last week’s blog, which concerned my love of youth orchestras, arrived from my good friend John Canarina, conductor, educator, […]

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Then is now

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

With one of my favorite opera productions returning to the Met tonight, I’ve been considering lately what makes Willy Decker’s Traviata so fine, so satisfying, and so worth a return visit.

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Lessons Learned From Crowdfunding

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

By: Edna Landau Dear Edna: I am Associate Professor of Piano at a university music school in the U.S. and enjoy reading your blog very much. I also encourage my students to read it. For a number of years, I have been researching piano compositions written by female composers and I have now collected enough […]

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