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“Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.” - Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?
Vogue, December 1958

What he said. [via lethebashar via alhasaart]
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The music fiends and tech geeks among you no doubt followed Apple’s product announcement yesterday; I watched it on my phone. [Hey look, a major media company unafraid to provide high quality live video on a mobile platform!] Of the new offerings the one that immediately got my attention was Ping, an iTunes-based social music service. I am a longtime Last.fm user and have been frustrated that iTunes has never natively supported the ability to feed data to that service or others like Twitter. So now I’m trying out Ping:

Thanks so much for the compliment, Alex. I’ll be doing my best to share something interesting from each of my concerts this coming symphony season so you should have ample opportunity to get to know my work!

Regarding Bernstein’s 1973 Norton Lectures at Harvard – they are available both on DVD and in book form. The latter is what I’ll be sending out next week to the winner of the Bernstein reblog giveaway.
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Hopefully you’ve been following harpist and From the Top alum Anna DeLoi’s summer Arts Leadership project – she got together an ensemble and has been touring, raising money for CureSearch. You can read more about her ensemble, Heartstrings, and what they’ve been doing this summer here. We just got an update from her on Heartstrings‘ [...]
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Теперь ясно кто стоял у истоков drone ambient музыки :)
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Идеальные часы для студии, по-моему :)
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It's been quite a year for Portico Quartet. In a few weeks the group set off for their first 9-date North American tour (details below). I spoke briefly on the phone to drummer Duncan Bellamy. (photo: Real World Records)In the last few months they've been touring extensively on the continent. In fact they will be tomorrow night at Jazz a la Villette in Paris. Any gigs which stand out in particular : "I really enjoyed the Festival Sous Les Pommiers in Coutances in Normandy. Nice one. A really good vibe. And there was a big venue we played at in Poland.

Last night we heard a private recital by the young Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu, where she gave a programme mainly devoted to Chopin - two Nocturnes, the Ballade no 4 and the Sonata No 3. Also in the programme were Debussy's L'Isle Joyeuse and Constantin Sivestri's Bacchanale as encore. Her Chopin was poetic and robust, totally involving, with the Sonata giving due weight to both the romantic impulses and the classical form of the sonata. Alexandra will be giving a recital at the Wigmore Hall on 5th April next year.

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Last Sunday, BBC Radio 3’s Listener Requests programme featured requests from musicians, audience and staff members associated with the HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival.
The BBC asked festival staff, volunteers, Pump Room staff as well as the curator of the Holst Birthplace Museum plus performers Simon Callow and Francesco Piemontesi for their requests.
Listen to their choices on [...]
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