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Simon Rattle just appointed music director at LSO
Just announced today: In 2017 Sir Simon Rattle will become the next music director of the London Symphony Orchestra. Talk about some exciting news!
Links:
London Symphony Orchestra press release
The Guardian: Simon Rattle is the seismic, creative shock UK classical music needs
BBC: Simon Rattle to join London Symphony Orchestra
Telegraph: Simon Rattle to lead LSO: “It’s a homecoming”
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A well-worn expression http://wp.me/s3brZZ-wellworn My Bb trumpet and I have been through a lot together. My instruments have taken me places and given me opportunities I might have never dreamed of.
This picture is easily worth 1000 words I noticed this delightful little moment on the 3rd part of the Benjamin Britten Sinfonia da Requiem at a rehearsal the other night and had to snap a picture.
9 Symphonies / 9 Composers
9 Symphonies / 9 Composers http://wp.me/s3brZZ-9by9
A fun little poll of sorts has been making the rounds the last few weeks in my circle of musician friends, and since I’m trying to ease back into writing for the blog after a long hiatus, I thought it would be fun to to post this one. Here’s the idea: what are YOUR favorite symphonies, in numerical order from 1-9.
One small catch, though: you can’t use a composer more than once. That’s what makes…
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Four years returned
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a few weeks but have been struggling with how to say exactly what I am thinking, so I will just cut right to it:
I’ve now been playing continuously for a longer period of time than I took off.
And, for someone as obsessed with dates as me, I didn’t even think about this occasion until after it had already passed, probably because after four years of…
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Shakespeare's The Tempest
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
A few weeks ago I made a trip to Ashland, Oregon home of the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festivaland even though I (briefly) worked in Ashland many years ago, this was my first time attending a performance at the OSF. Earlier in the spring I scored a pair of free tickets to the festival, good for any of the current productions, but unfortunately fraught with blackout days and other restrictions.…
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Grimes!
In late June I took long-weekend in San Francisco to visit an old friend, eat some great food, and take in a semi-staged performance of Peter Grimes with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. Peter Grimeshas long been a favorite of mine, but I’ve never been able to take in a live performance so when I saw it in the SFS schedule almost a year ago I immediately bought tickets and…
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Storms!
Storms! http://wp.me/s3brZZ-storms
Storms have been an not-entirely-planned theme of the summer for me. Just this past weekend, my significant other and I made a trip (our first ever) to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival thanks to some free tickets I scored a while back. We’re both busy people – especially so during the summer months – and our choice of performance was dictated more by what weekend we would be able to skip town,…
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Back to the grind!
Back to the grind!
Musically, summer has always been a motivational challenge for me. At the end of May, the idea of take a few months to really sharpen my fundamentals in preparation for the next season always seems like such a great idea! But by the time July rolls around, I’m usually in pretty dreadful shape and have almost no desire to practice. Of course, the worse shape that I’m in, the less I want to…
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"Chase the Night"
“Chase the Night”
Surrounding yourself with talented, intelligent people is the best gift that you could ever give yourself, and my friend Joshua Du Cheneis one of those intensely creative people that ceaselessly inspires me. Josh is a busy fellow: he’s well versed in many pop genres as a performer and composer. If you’ve never seen the man dance, you owe it to yourself. And, at least for the last few years, he’s…
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Schadenfreude (or: where do I go from here?)
Schadenfreude (or: where do I go from here?)
One and half years in, I’m starting to feel like this blog has begun to wander in ways that I hadn’t expected and now I’m trying to figure out what direction I’d like take my writing. When I first came up with some ideas for this blog, I really thought I would focus almost exclusively on recording reviews and my impressions of what an orchestra sounds like from my vantage point. Unfortunately, it…
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Hire a musician (for ANY type of job)
Hire a musician (for ANY type of job)
We’re finishing up the process of hiring a new person at my “day job” and I’ve been thinking a lot about the qualities that I prefer in a co-worker. While I’m not on the hiring committee for this particular position (if I were, I certainly wouldn’t be writing an article like this), in a relatively small office like mine everyone has a chance to provide meaningful input into who we hire. Now,…
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Crashing (and smoldering)
I played a little concert this past weekend. Nothing too difficult at all for me to play and in a situation that should have been relaxing and low stress. But I got paired up with some intensely nervous brass players, none of which I had ever met or performed with before, and their nervousness rubbed off on me. Rehearsals had gone very poorly, and I swear one of the other musicians must have had…
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A premiere all of my own
A premiere all of my own
Last night was a very strange, but very exciting experience for me.
If you’ve stuck with the blog for a while, you’ve probably noticed that I’m not writing nearly as much as I used to (though I’m trying to find inspiration to write more). What I have been doing this spring is composing. Lots and lots of composing. I really have no idea where all of my musical ideas are coming from, or why they…
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Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (1933-2014)
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (1933-2014)
I’ve begun to hear reports that Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, the Spanish conductor has passed away due to health complications today,June 11, 2014, in Pamplona. Beloved by musicians across the world, Fruhbeck was known for both his brilliant interpretations and kindness towards the musicians he was working with. I will update this page with links to newspaper articles as they become available.
Gl…
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“Orchestra movements from the hood” This. Is. Awesome.
“Orchestra movements from the hood” This. Is. Awesome.