Friday, April 29, 2016

Lord Berners: The Triumph of Neptune (Beecham)

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Lord Berners, 1935 Today, April 29, is the birthday of no less than three famous conductors - Beecham, Sargent, and Zubin Mehta (who tur...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Happy 125th, Sergei Prokofiev!

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Cover design by Alex Steinweiss Saturday, April 23, marks a significant composer anniversary - the 125th birthday of Prokofiev (1891-195...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Stokowski's All-American Youth Orchestra

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Leopold Stokowski rehearsing with the All-American Youth Orchestra, 1940 Leopold Stokowski's birthday is upon us again (he was born...
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Monday, April 4, 2016

Ortenberg, Foss and the Budapest Quartet

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Cover design by Alex Steinweiss For a dozen years, beginning in 1932, one half of the famed Budapest String Quartet consisted of the Sch...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Bliss: Music for Strings (Boult)

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Arthur Bliss I can't claim a great deal of familiarity with the music of Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975), but of the dozen or so works ...
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Friday, March 11, 2016

The New Art Wind Quintet

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The New Art Wind Quintet (Murray Panitz, Melvin Kaplan, Aldo Simonelli, Tina di Dario, Merrill Wilson) Last month, when I posted the Fi...
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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 (Efrem Zimbalist)

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Efrem Zimbalist For someone of his eminence during the golden age of violin playing, Efrem Zimbalist (1890-1985) did not have a recordin...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator (Ormandy)

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John Alden Carpenter Barely remembered today, John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951), born 140 years ago next Sunday (Feb. 28) in the Chicago ...
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Monday, February 8, 2016

Two "Firsts" from the Coolidge Quartet

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Nicolai Berezowsky With these two sets, I am now about two-thirds of the way through completing what Nick, of Grumpy's Classics Ca...
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