March 2009
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Dinnerstein, WCFSO on air
Broadcast – My October 4, 2008 concert with the WCFSO featuring pianist Simone Dinnerstein will air on Iowa Public Radio’s Symphonies of Iowa series tonight at 8:00 pm. [As always, time given is local.] If you are outside of the area listen via IPR’s mp3 stream or search for ‘iowa public radio classical’ on your internet radio service.
If you missed the broadcast you...
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If music be the food ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony and the Louisville Orchestra [along with more than 200 other ensembles] are participating in Orchestras Feeding America, a food drive initiated by the League of American Orchestras and Feeding America. CBS News’ Early Show will run a national piece on the program tomorrow, March 25.
The LO is accepting donations this weekend at the Kentucky Center. WCFSO...
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Pure pipa
The first half of this week’s LO concerts [for which I am replacing an injured Joana Carneiro] consists of two pieces likely to be unfamiliar to Louisville audiences – Anatol Liadov’s vivid Kikimora, based on a Russian folk tale, and Tan Dun’s 1999 Concerto for Pipa and Strings. Here’s a close-up look at the pipa from soloist Zhoa Cong and Guardian journalist Dan Chung.
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Stepping in
That’s what I will be doing this week, with the Louisville Orchestra. Nice program – please come hear it if you are in the area.
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An American place
Contented river! in thy dreamy realm– The cloudy willow and the plumy elm: Thou beautiful! from every dreamy hill What eye but wanders with thee at thy will… Contented river! And yet over-shy To mask thy beauty from the eager eye; Hast thou a thought to hide from field and town? In some deep current of the sunlit brown… Ah! there’s a restive ripple, and the swift Red...
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Must-see mashups
Another feat of musical mixture in our era of freely available source material, ThruYou is a series of mashups by Israeli musician Kutiman [Ophir Kutiel] created out of existing YouTube videos. The project garnered huge numbers of views earlier this month when it first went up on the web, with the word being spread primarily via Twitter and other blogging platforms [I discoverd it a few weeks ago...
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Re-retweet
I couldn’t retweet this – no characters leftover, thanks a lot @stephenfry. My comment at the end.
RT @stephenfry: This is the point. One technology doesn’t replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. + also true of performers/mp3s
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Bartók, seen and explained
Live, in-concert introduction to the Miraculous Mandarin
Bartók – Miraculous Mandarin, The shabby old rake WCFSO – February 2009
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Re-remix
I just joined Huffduffer, a website for reblogging web audio. Fittingly enough, my first huffduff is a talk entitled ‘Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy’ by Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey and Steven Johnson and hosted by the New York Public Library and Wired. [Follow the NYPL link for video of the talk.]
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Watch and learn
In addition to performing I regularly give talks on music [my next precedes this weekend’s WCFSO concert]. But if you really want to learn check out Academic Earth for video lectures, including complete courses, by some of the county’s leading academics. [via Swissmiss]
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Quarterly report
The first part of 2009 has been unusually busy for me – hence the meagre trickle of blog posts – but also very artistically exciting. Here’s a summary of my past two months worth of repertoire with the LO and the WCFSO [as with elsewhere on my site, music composed in the past 30 years is dated in bold]:
Stravinsky – L’histoire du soldat → Marsalis – The Fiddler’s Tale [1998] → ...