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- Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: About CMG's contributors!
- Replies: 514
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Re: Introducing yourself thread!
Hey Dave- I remember Ithaca well. I sent my son to the other well known school up there. Graduation dinner was at L'Auberge du Cochon Rouge. My daughter was accepted at Ithaca, on an academic track; but she was really a ballet dancer and choreographer. We sent her to Tisch School at NYU. I am in Cen...
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:34 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: About CMG's contributors!
- Replies: 514
- Views: 232038
Re: Introducing yourself thread!
Hey Ray, thanks for waking me up. I have not been here for a while, busy with my music blog and my science blog. This is a great forum. And, hey, I hope that you will visit my blog, posted below.
>>RSM
>>RSM
- Sat Nov 13, 2010 1:34 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: About CMG's contributors!
- Replies: 514
- Views: 232038
Re: Introducing yourself thread!
This is a really cool place!
- Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:54 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 1216897
Re: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xd1Q8oW0L._SL500_AA300_.jpg Sonny Rollins Tenor Madness Ojc (1956) With John Coltrane , tenor, Red Garland piano, Paul Chambers bass, and Philly Joe Jones drums (Miles Davis' rhythm section) The writer at Amazon sums it up well: "The title track is battle of ...
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:58 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 1216897
Re: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
Larry Coryell, John McGlaughlin, Paco DeLucia: Meeting of the Spirits
Quantum Leap (2003)
- Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:26 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
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- Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:15 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
At Nadia Sirota on Q2 , http://www.wqxr.org/programs/nadia-sirota-q2/ [ http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/5702/nadiaiii.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gnoc-RUIL._SL500_AA300_.jpg Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, and Panaiotis New Albion 2009 http://parmenides.wnyc.org/media/photologu...
- Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:06 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 1216897
Re: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
Featured today by Dan Buskirk, WPRB. Dan spins Jazz every Monday 11:00AM-1:00PM Eastern time
http://www.wprb.com
- Sat Oct 02, 2010 2:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
Bernstein - the 1989 celebration of the coming down of the wall in Berlin http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516dWYWgCAL._SS400_.jpg Euroarts (2009) "Bernstein conducted an orchestra and chorus formed from musicians from both East and West Germany (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle...
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: About CMG's contributors!
- Replies: 514
- Views: 232038
Re: Introducing yourself thread!
Curiosity, and I did not want to raise it to a PM to moderators: I am "subscribed" to a variety of topics (threads). Yet, it seems as if when I do not check in with the forum for some days, I get no email notifications. Then, when I check in to maybe see what is new, I get a bunch in a torrent. Is t...
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:37 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Alex Ross - The New Yorker Festival...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3744
Re: Alex Ross - The New Yorker Festival...
I am just getting into Ross' Listen To This . http://www.bookforum.com/uploads/publication.000/id10021/cover00.jpg So far, chapters I enjoy - Listen to This - the opening essay actually penned in 2004. Infernal Machines - Hiow Recordings changed Music The Anti Maestro - Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los ...
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 11:07 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z4rwl-jOL.jpg There is a symphony, The Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus , This symphony has not yet been recorded. However, if one is interested, there is a video, Howard Shore Creating the ...
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
I am listening to Q2 , the 24/7 New Music stream, from WQXR directly from the web on my Droid 2 cell phone. Right now, it's Nadia Sirota on Q2 , every week day 12:00-4:00 noon and midnight http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5702/nadiaiii.jpg Nadia is a rising young viola phenom, described as a "New ...
- Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:11 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
Jordi Savall Jerusalem http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FWy233vhL._SS400_.jpg Jordi Savall (Composer), Jordi Savall (Conductor), Al-Darwish (Performer), Hesperion XXI (Performer), Les Trompettes de Jéricho (Performer), Francesc Garrigosa (Performer), Luis Vilamajo (Performer), Begona Olavide...
- Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:04 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
At http://www.wqxr.org/q2 , “Host Nadia Sirota Celebrates Leonard Bernstein“, http://www.wqxr.org/blogs/q2-blog/2010/aug/25/lenny-92/ on his 92nd birthday. Nadia Sirota, the absolute genius of Q2, but really a virtuoso violist, did an outstanding job curating a four hour program devoted to Leonard B...
- Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:44 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: I'm Willing To Listen To All Kinds Of Classical Music
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16413
Re: I'm Willing To Listen To All Kinds Of Classical Music
I recently listened to a complete cycle of Bela Bartok. The first two pieces, from around 1896-97, are String Quartets No.1 and No.2.
I thought I must be listening to Elliot Carter.
It was great.
I thought I must be listening to Elliot Carter.
It was great.
- Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Things Are Better Than Ever For Classical Music Fans
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10379
Re: Things Are Better Than Ever For Classical Music Fans
I agree that WE are better off. I don't know about composers, musical organizations and individual musicians. My musical life is completely digital. I listen on line, http://www.wprb.com , http://www.wqxr.org/q2 , http://www.live365.com http://www.hos.com I buy only .mp3's from Amazon. Readers can c...
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:00 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 1216897
Re: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival streamed by NPR at
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=92839666
originated by WBGO Jazz 88, Newark, NJ
and WGBH, Boston
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=92839666
originated by WBGO Jazz 88, Newark, NJ
and WGBH, Boston
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 11:53 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: About CMG's contributors!
- Replies: 514
- Views: 232038
Re: Introducing yourself thread!
You are certainly welcome to this wonderful and friendly forum.
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:23 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Illustrious Mark O' Connor, Esquire
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2582
Re: The Illustrious Mark O' Connor, Esquire
I have some Mark O'Connor. I started buying his work when he did Appalachian Journey with Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo-Ma. The standout piece for me is his Fiddle Concerto . But I also have Appalachian Waltz American Seasons Fanfare for the Volunteer Americana Symphony I recommend first listening to the Fi...
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:29 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
This morning Q2 from http://www.wqxr.org
The New Music source airing and streaming 500 years of the non-generic and fearless music we crave.
The New Music source airing and streaming 500 years of the non-generic and fearless music we crave.
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
Not today.
Today Schleck almost bested the weasel Contador.
Today Schleck almost bested the weasel Contador.
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 6:56 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
Going hiking solo, so it's the Zune and
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 6:51 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Everyone please read: REGARDING ATTACHMENTS!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 475248
Re: Everyone please read: REGARDING ATTACHMENTS!
Well, I guess I came to the right spot to get an answer I don't like to a question I wanted to ask. I have a blog, Wordpress allows me a utility to upload picture file from my own hard drive, in the body of my post. So, I have developed an extensive library of images. So, I cannot use them here. But...
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Help!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8921
Re: Help!
Welcome. I am not new to Classical music; but here are suggestions based upon my own searchings. Read the book The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. This book, by the current Dean of American critics starts at the beginning of the twentieth century and comes up to pretty recent times. http://images.barnes...
- Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:52 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
From 11:00AM-1:30PM, Marvin Rosen, http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org at WPRB, Princeton, NJ, http://www.wprb.com http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQlhdGaWoEoptYxG_-dYraDiKPD7ky1davr14WutvBCyYfEaRg&t=1&usg=__1vVTOSPyYGMJU4MRuZoPO5Hu1lg= http://www.wprb.com/images/head2.gif interviewed Stephe...
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:50 pm
- Forum: CMG Review of Books
- Topic: There Must Be Readers Out There???
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5142
Re: There Must Be Readers Out There???
I just finally got Alan Rich's So I've Heard http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LWdBVNOgL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg Alan became a friend over the last few years. I am really enjoying his work. For years I was on his email distribution list ...
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bang on a Can Marathon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3437
Re: Bang on a Can Marathon
I support BOAC. I buy from their label. Groups like BOAC, the BOAC All-Stars, Ethel, eighth blackbird, ACME, itsnotyouitsme, So Percussion; composers like David Lang, Michael Gordon, Evan Ziporyn, this is what is making things go these days.
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Historical vs. Current Recordings: Which way do you go?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 13363
Re: Historical vs. Current Recordings. Which way to go?
I think that it important to financially support living artists and composers.
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Is Classical Music Superior To Other Kinds Of Music?
- Replies: 133
- Views: 44061
Re: Is Classical Music Superior To Other Kinds Of Music?
I just received my copy of my friend Alan Rich's book So Iv'e Heard . Alan was acknowledged as the Dean of American critics of classical music. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LWdBVNOgL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg On page xxix, Alan gives ...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Cued Up on Q2 - A Festival of New Music Recorded Live in NYC
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- Views: 1874
Cued Up on Q2 - A Festival of New Music Recorded Live in NYC
Q2, http://www.wqxr.org/q2 is the home of New Music in all of its diversity on the internet. http://parmenides.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/cache/q2-taxis_medium_image.jpg This Summer, we will be given the opportunity to hear or hear again great and important new pieces from a wide variety of c...
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:34 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 1216897
Re: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
Keith Jarrett Scared Hyms (1980) ECM
- Mon Jun 07, 2010 2:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
Nadia Sirota is back on Q2, http://www.wqxr.org/q2 12:00-4:00 midnight and noon http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5744/q2volcanos.jpg Tuesday, June 8, http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2535/24hrsfinna.jpg You can access Q2 with the embedded player or save it as a stream in players like Winamp, and...
- Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:40 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
Today, a probably bad band at a wedding.
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 12:22 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:48 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 1216897
Re: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
This week on Music From the Hearts of Space http://www.hos.com PGM 913 "TRAN-ASIAN DIFFUSION" http://heartsofspace.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341e7ce553ef0133f000520b970b-800wi About this program, Stephen tells us, "The term "The Silk Road" was invented by a German geographer in 1877. He was describing tr...
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:35 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
This week on http://www.wqxr.org/q2 Nadia Sirota on Q2 http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3995/nadial.jpg Volcanoes, Scandinavia, etc. Every day, Monday through Friday, Noon and Midnight- Nadia tells us, "I am so happy (finally!) to be back from my ash-extended hiatus. To celebrate (and partly to faci...
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:52 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Is there a 'Desert Island Discs' topic here?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16730
Re: Is there a 'Desert Island Discs' topic here?
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JLL9n9oML._SL500_AA300_.jpg (1975) ECM A fine choice. Of course, if you were going to be there a while, and if the rules allowed, you might be better served by the "Sun Bear Concerts". Glad to see a fellow Keith Jarrett fan on...
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:35 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Classical Music Radio in St Louis dies 7/6
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4047
Re: Classical Music Radio in St Louis dies 7/6
maestrob - thanks for the nod. And, John F. - I don't think this was such a narrow escape for WQXR. Laura Walker , the boss lady at WNYC, had been trying to off-load music for years. She had been seeking a different frequency. Admittedly, this thing just fell into her lap. And, she did not do it che...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Classical Music Radio in St Louis dies 7/6
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4047
Re: Classical Music Radio in St Louis dies 7/6
Unfortunately, this is going on all over the country. I am an activist PubRadio listener/member, I have a blog, "Whither Public Radio and serious music" (not really active since March, save one post on going digital at home) at http://richardmitnick.wordpress.com , which considered some of the issue...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:34 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 1216897
Re: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
Eureeka!! Later today The Sounds of Miles Davis video http://aalbc.com/reviews/the_so7.jpg CBS Television, 1959, Produced by Robert (Bob) Herridge It is MDD, The Gil Evans Orchestra, and a knock-out solo by John Coltrane. This video, lost for some time, has re-surfaced. It is now available from Netf...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:06 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 1216897
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:21 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Robert Spano, Atlanta SO, New Music
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3607
Re: Robert Spano, Atlanta SO, New Music
Thanks for a really well done post.
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:18 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
Today, Q2 from http://www.wqxr.org/q2 For the music you crave, 500 years of new music, non-generic Classical music. http://parmenides.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/q2v2.jpg Most recently The lines we walked when we walked once together Christopher Tignor * Slow Six If Then Else 001 length: 30:24 ...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:13 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are YOU listening to today?
- Replies: 16255
- Views: 5359577
Re: What are YOU listening to today?
Actually yesterday, but I had no time to post, http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3336/classicaldiscoveries.jpg Marvin Rosen's Classical Discoveries and Classical Discoveries Goes Avant-Garde Marvin had an 11-1/2 hour marathon, celebrating 13 years of the program, with music written in the last 13 y...
- Sat May 29, 2010 2:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Is there a 'Desert Island Discs' topic here?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16730
Re: Is there a 'Desert Island Discs' topic here?
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JLL9n9oML._SL500_AA300_.jpg (1975) ECM A fine choice. Of course, if you were going to be there a while, and if the rules allowed, you might be better served by the "Sun Bear Concerts". Glad to see a fellow Keith Jarrett fan on...
- Sat May 29, 2010 6:34 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Is there a 'Desert Island Discs' topic here?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16730
Re: Is there a 'Desert Island Discs' topic here?
As far as I know, they always refer to the score. Mine was only radio; but I heard paper rustling. Of course, it could have been someone reading the newspaper.jserraglio wrote: This one. L.Foster/BBC SO.
I had expected Foster to conduct the piece from memory; instead he had to refer to the score.
- Sat May 29, 2010 6:31 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 1216897
Re: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
Right now, Music From the Hearts of Space, http://www.hos.com Program 912 "Warm Front" http://heartsofspace.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341e7ce553ef0134827e4e92970c-800wi About this program, Stephen Hill tells us, "...As spring slowly morphs into summer, the music becomes more energetic and expansive. In t...
- Fri May 28, 2010 11:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Is there a 'Desert Island Discs' topic here?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16730
Re: Is there a 'Desert Island Discs' topic here?
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JLL9n9oML._SL500_AA300_.jpg (1975) ECM A fine choice. Of course, if you were going to be there a while, and if the rules allowed, you might be better served by the "Sun Bear Concerts". Glad to see a fellow Keith Jarrett fan on...
- Fri May 28, 2010 5:18 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Is there a 'Desert Island Discs' topic here?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16730
Re: Is there a 'Desert Island Discs' topic here?
.... I am interested to know what one recording - just one - you'd take with you if you were going to be stuck on an island for the rest of your life. Mind you, "stuck" might not be an appropriate word for a place with warm weather, white sand, palm trees, peace & quiet, etc. John Cage: 4′33″ Inter...