Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic are on a European tour for a couple of weeks, and for a change I didn’t roll my eyes in despair when I saw the list of repertoire. His predecessors as music director, Kurt Masur and Lorin Maazel, for all their superb work at building […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Beethoven, Berg, Boulez, carnegie hall, Clark, copland, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Juilliard, Kurt Masur, leonard bernstein, Lindberg, Magnus Lindberg, Mahler, Mendelssohn, New York, New York Philharmonic, philadelphia orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
By Alan Gilbert I’ve recently tried my hand at acrylic painting, and just bought a how-to book that stresses the overriding importance of composition — i.e. form and the use of spatial elements — in a successful work of art. By that measure, I can tell you right now that this blog entry will not […]
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Tags: A Concert for New York, Alan Gilbert, Andrea Bocelli, avery fisher hall, Bach, Berg, Christopher Plummer, Deborah Voigt, Frank Peter Zimmermann, John Corigliano, Lyons
Posted in Curiously Random | Comments Off on Ruminations and reflections, Lyonnais