Home > 26 March 2015

Archive for March 26th, 2015

Auto-Correct: The Great Leveler

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

By James Conlon   Question: What do Arnold Schoenberg, Edouard Manet, Francois Rene Chateaubriand and Titus Andronicus have in common? Answer: My spell-check doesn’t recognize their names.   About eighteen months ago, bending under a barrage of criticism and pressure to start tweeting, I began.  Entering the world of social media was not my thing. […]

Read the rest of this article »

Posted in A Rich Possession | Comments Off on Auto-Correct: The Great Leveler

A Glimpse at Jost and Aperghis

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

By Rebecca Schmid There has been too much music to keep up with between the Konzerthaus’ Festival Mythos Berlin and the contemporary music festival MärzMusik. At the Konzerthaus, I caught the premiere of Christian Jost’s BerlinSymphonie, an homage to the German capital in all is mercurial energy. The approximately 27-minute work for full orchestra creates […]

Read the rest of this article »

Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on A Glimpse at Jost and Aperghis