Notes on the Spring semester's Tuesday class: Italian opera from The Barber of Seville to Turandot.
Two Italian opera classes in a row? How repetitive will they be?
Picks for Beethoven's 9th
Some recordings we like, and a app.
Tributes to Claudio Abbado
He also had amazing eyes and once said, “you can do much with your eyes, in music and in life." With those eyes he communicated love for music and for musicians. He knew every score from memory so, musicians always remarked, he could spend more time looking at them and communicating more deeply with them.
Revealed: The 8 Operas That Changed the World
Audio: John Gibbons reveals (and defends) the operas to be covered in his next Graham School course, and discusses some of the works he cosidered, but didn't make the cut. 10-minute audio file.
Director Patrice Chereau Dead at 68
"A director should love all of his characters. Even if the character is a murderer or a monster, you have to love them. You have to accept them, and try to understand how they managed to do what they've done."
Schoenberg Conducting Mahler 2nd
One commenter proclaims that it sounds the way Boulez would do it? Do you agree?
Mahler: 15 Questions
Has Mahler’s time come and gone? Or are all times Mahler times?