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March 26, 2010
Miscellany: The Levine Crisis, etc.
- At Carnegie Hall’s Web site, Thomas Adès talks about his solo, big-room Carnegie début, which will take place Saturday night. Adès’s astonishing orchestral piece “Tevot” is now out on EMI Classics.
- The same night, Columbia University will honor the great Pauline Oliveros.
- Jeremy Eichler, of the Boston Globe, again addresses the impact of James Levine’s medical problems on the Boston Symphony.
- In Macworld, Kirk McElhearn supplies handy tips for classical-music iTunes users. Speaking of MP3s, try Proper Discord’s Digital Audio Pepsi Challenge.
- Why does the L.A. Opera “Ring” cost $32 million? Mike Boehm, of the L.A. Times, investigates. Short answer: theater is expensive.
- Jorge Martín blogs in detail about readying his opera “Before Night Falls” for the Fort Worth Opera. The première takes place on May 29th, with Wes Mason in the role of Reinaldo Arenas.
Originally posted by Alex Ross from Unquiet Thoughts, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Mar 26, 2010 at 05:10 PM