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December 09, 2009
Miscellany: Lorraine’s Dido, Etc.
At the Web site of the conductor Nicholas McGegan, you can obtain a free download of one of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s most haunting recordings—her rendition of Dido’s Lament, from Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.”
According to Chicago Classical Review, the Rembrandt Chamber Players sent out a survey asking subscribers what work they most wanted to hear, and the winner was … Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time.”
At Composition Today, Graham Lynch puzzles over the classic distinction between “tonal” and “atonal,” writing in praise of the neither-here-nor-there.
On the Times’s Opinionator blog, Annie Gosfield gives advice to young composers.
In the Hollywood Reporter, Nicolas Cage, Morgan Freeman, and Christoph Waltz discuss Hilary Hahn’s interpretation of Bach.
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the Wall Street Journal presents the Nathan Gunn Workout. Funny, I do push-ups “until failure” and I don’t look like that. (Related: Barihunks.)
Originally posted by Alex Ross from Unquiet Thoughts, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Dec 9, 2009 at 05:10 PM