goddesses, remixed
I hate going to concerts. I love going to concerts. Perhaps I was required to read too much Kant and Hegel in my undergraduate senior thesis class. I’ve got a nice, ripe dualism in my psyche. It’s a...
View Articlebeethoven’s tenth
“Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony” was the moniker assigned (by the noted conductor and pundit Hans von Bülow) to Johannes Brahms’ First Symphony, which was some twenty years in its gestation, such was both...
View Articlebrahms tidbits
Above: The alphorn melody heard by Brahms on a walk, written on a birthday greeting to Clara Schumann. Below: The autograph score of the First Symphony, with the horn solo that quotes the alphorn...
View Articleobf – passing the baton
It was my final performance at the Oregon Bach Festival for 2013, and it was quite a historical event for the festival. This concert marked the symbolic ‘passing of the baton’ from founding Artistic...
View Articlea tale of two brahms
Another musician who blogs quite frequently is the pianist Stephen Hough (a favorite soloist here in Portland, with frequent appearances with the Oregon Symphony), and he recently wrote a blog post for...
View Article45th Parallel Succeeds With Sextets
Last night’s 45th Parallel concert was entirely composed of works for the string sextet, an ensemble that often makes its appearance as the culmination of an evening’s program. Indeed, here was a...
View Articlehome stretch
It seems almost as though I posted this entry yesterday instead of last August, but here it is, just past the first week of May, and there are just over two weeks left in the Oregon Symphony’s...
View Articlemore random musings
I come up with these ‘random musings’ posts every now and then. What do they mean? Mostly they mean that I’m thinking about what I’m doing in a new way and becoming more engaged in my music making. Or...
View Articlebrahms with friends new and old
Last Thursday, at an unspeakably early hour, I headed to the Portland airport to fly to Laramie, Wyoming. I was headed there to reunite with my University of Maryland graduate string quartet colleagues...
View Articlea kinder, gentler requiem
Sunday afternoon was one of those rare times when I had a piece that I thought I knew well revealed to me in an entirely new, deeper, and more personal […]
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