… from the dawn of the electrical recording era: Vaughan Williams’s wonderful arrangement of the Gloucestershire Wassail as recorded in 1926 or 1927 by the English Singers, courtesy of Mickey Clark.
Looks like the YouTube police pulled it. Good thing I kept the audio track!
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Read my takes on the MET’s new showcase-vehicle-for-La-Renée production of Thaïs and the New York Philharmonic’s semi-staged Elektra featuring Deborah Polaski at ClassicalSource.com.
The AP reports Donald Rosenberg, the Cleveland Plain Dealer critic ousted from the Cleveland Orchestra beat, is suing both the paper and the orchestra.
My commentary on the Office of Special Counsel’s excoriation of loyal Bushie prosecutor Rachel Paulose can be found at APJ.
Sybille Werner forwarded Benjamin Ivry’s WSJ article reporting Team Yellow’s decision to dump arguably their most interesting young artist, Yundi Li. [more]
Mischa Stutzmann passes along this anecdote about legendary podium tyrant Fritz Reiner:
Continue reading Fritz Reiner Anecdote: The Case of the Phantom Piccolo
The Birmingham Post reports the very sad news of British maestro Richard Hickox’s sudden death.
“Richard Strauss in the original tongue – Saxon!” My review of their all-Strauss program is live at ClassicalSource.com.
Jeremy Eichler has the details at BoGlo. Sounds like Maestro Rozhdestvensky needs a tougher artist rep for his US gigs, but that does not excuse the BSO for the shabby manner in which they handled the promotion of arguably one of the greatest elder statesmen of the podium.
Back in late November. Taking a little time off. Next up: a new Name That Artist! Stay tuned…