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UPDATE: La Scala's Post-Barenboim Conductor is…Fabio Luisi?
UPDATE: Now, Italy's La Reppublica is reporting that Genoese maestro Fabio Luisi--principal conductor of the Met since September 2011 (i.e. from whence James Levine withdrew)--may very well be the preferred candidate. Call it... -
Jaap Blonk's Sound Poetry Primer @ Roulette
Make no mistake, Jaap Blonk remains the world's foremost sound poet. -
Five Quickies: Jackie Evancho to Sony, Andris Nelsons in Boston, Ronald Shannon Jackson Obit, Chinese Classical Music, Destroyer Musical
And with the world's best musicians, singers, dancers and actors going back to repertory work after their summer stocks, there's more good news happening now than there was, say, back in September. -
TRANSLATION: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, "Ancient Scent"
Lost in the fire of last year's 'Pierrot' centennial was translation. After all, it was Otto Erich Hartleben's German--translated from the original French of Albert Giraud--that Arnold Schoenberg had set. To wit, over the past 21 weekdays.. -
Sun Ra Arkestra with Marshall Allen at Jazz at Lincoln Center [PHOTOS]
On the centenary of Sun Ra's earthly birth, Jazz at Lincoln Center welcomed his Arkestra to Columbus Circle for the first time. Ever. -
UPDATE: Stream Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti's Verdi Bicentennial Concert
UPDATE: The concert is streaming live at www.cso.org/verdi and on the CSO's Facebook page. -
Five Quickies: Kiri Te Kanawa in 'Downton Abbey,' Lady Conductors, L.A. Free Music Society, Graphic Scores, Tori Amos Musical
Here, then, is today's news. -
TRANSLATION: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, "Journey Home (Barcarola)"
Part III: 20. "Journey Home (Barcarola)" -
DOWNLOAD: RE/Search Head V. Vale's 'Lausanne Theme' for Solo Piano
A mere 99 cents lands you the latest piano improvisation from the founder of RE/Search Publications. -
UPDATE: Stream Gidon Kremer's Putin Protest Concert, "To Russia with Love"
UPDATE: Gidon Kremer's concert for true justice in Vladimir Putin's Russia is being streamed world-wide via the Franco-German Arte TV channel--featuring music of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Sofia Gubaidulina. -
Five Quickies: Ballet Star and Son Stabbed, Classical's Hell Week, John Zorn at the Met, Graphic Scores, Stevie Nicks of Thrones
So, in an effort to keep all you Classicalites abreast of each and every situation, we'll be trawling the web for the best headlines--those stories, those people making the biggest waves. -
TRANSLATION: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, "Serenade"
Part III: 19. "Serenade" -
The True Story Behind Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Stephen Ward' Musical [PHOTOS]
Opening this December on London's West End, Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Stephen Ward' charts the rise and fall of a high society osteopath at the center of the 1963 Profumo Affair... -
UPDATE: Leon Botstein's American Symphony Orchestra Concert at Carnegie Hall, "New York Avant-Garde," Will Go On!
UPDATE: A source has confirmed that this American Symphony Orchestra concert will go ahead at Carnegie Hall tonight. There had been fears that it, like the Philadelphia Orchestra concert last night, would be canceled... -
Five Quickies: Stream Joyce DiDonato at Juilliard, 13 Scariest Pieces, Classical Music Imperiled?, Nazi Gold in Score?, Fake Operatic Orgasms?
And with the world's best musicians, singers, dancers and actors going back to repertory work after their summer stocks, there's more good news happening now than there was, say, back in September...
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