My review is at classicalsource.com.
Kaboom! Doctor Atomic @ MET
My review of the new MET production of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic is up at ClassicalSource.com.
Harassing a National Treasure
Composer John Adams, arguably America’s most prominent symphonic and opera composer, is routinely being harassed by immigration officials.
Guess the Artists: Answer
Pierre Monteux conducts the Standard Symphony Orchestra (San Francisco Symphony) in Respighi’s Fontane di Roma; live aircheck of the March 24, 1946 broadcast of The Standard Hour, now available on Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux on Music and Arts. You can order it here (3rd item from the top).
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Guess the Artists
Can you identify the conductor – and orchestra – performing Respighi’s Fontane di Roma in this historic archival (non-commercial) recording? Drop me a line with your best guess. The answer will be posted late Friday.
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Light Blogging
I’m wrapped up on a project this week; some interesting surprises are on the back burner and will appear here next week.
NOW PLAYING: Alfred Deller — The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Volume 2 [full disclosure: I did the CD mastering work on Greg Barbero’s compilations, using David Baker’s excellent transfers from the original tape sources]
Yundi Li @ Carnegie
My review of this young and interesting pianist is up at Classical Source.
“Anna Magdalena, ein schwindel!”
Reuters’ Pauline Askin reports on an Australian music scholar who claims that Bach’s second wife wrote a number of works attributed to him.
Smashmouth Now!
I chime in on the rise of Democratic spinal fortitude and a need to apply the Chicago rules at APJ.
When You’ve Lost Ann Landers’s Daughter…
Via Lisa Derrick at the reliably ahead-of-the-curve Campaign Silo (whose missile-implying name always seems to bring to mind Onion News Network’s War for the White House reports… and if you’ve never seen the opening FOX-News-eat-yer-heart-out title sequence… but I digress…), we read that the terrific advice columnist Margot Howard, daughter of the iconic Ann Landers, is none too impressed by Slick Sally: