Neruda Songs
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
Rückert Lieder/Kindertotenlieder
Janet Baker/John Barbarolli: Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4
Gustav Mahler: George Szell/Cleveland Orchetra
Mozart Clarinet Concerto, Debussy Premiere Rhapsody
Sabine Meyer: Berlin Philharmonic · Abbado
Symphony No. 6
Gustav Mahler: Thomas Sanderling/St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Challenge to opera - Sandow
I think Greg may be on to something here. Satyagraha was a riveting listening experience for me during the Met broadcast. I also loved Einstein on the Beach when I saw the revival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Link: The Washington Monthly.
This is fascinating, but I'll bet the major media simply bury it.
Link: Jim Jarmusch.
One of my favorite directors is making a new film.
Link: aworks :: "new" american classical music: links for 2008-04-28.
It is always interesting to hear what Pierre Boulez has to say.
Link: Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra.
The community orchestra is alive and well in Brooklyn.
Link: BBC NEWS | Europe | Vivaldi work revived 278 years on.
I love it when someone does research which leads to wonderful music being reborn.
Link: Crooks and Liars: Helen Thomas Confronts Perino On Torture; Perino Denies and Lies.
Helen Thomas is still one of the gutsiest in the business. If half the press corps had her integrity the country wouldn't be in the horrible condition it is in right now.
Link: Jim Hightower | Postcards from the tour: Musicales and community radio.
Kudos to WMNF Radio for sponsoring Jim Hightower in Tampa.
Link: Note to People Meeting with the Candidates. . . - The Washington Note.
This could be a very productive and enlightening project.
Link: Taxi to the Dark Side (2007).
This important film is showing locally this weekend.
Link: THE BAND'S VISIT Sony Pictures Classics.
I'm looking forward to seeing this film.
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An American Procession had a powerful effect on me when I first read it. Kazin brought the great American voices to life for me. Melville, Emerson and others had never spoken to me so vividly. On Native Grounds goes to the top of my list.
Link: About Last Night: .
Terry Teachout, critic at Arts Journal and Commentary Magazine, has not only finished another book, but a libretto collaboration as well. He needs to write a book on his productivity secrets. Thanks to Alex Ross for the link.
Link: Tampa Rail.
It is encouraging to see a Republican come over to the support of rail as part of the mass transit solution in Hillborough County. Here is an interview on our community radio station WMNF.
Link: Talking Points Memo | Today's Must Read.
Pete Domenici (R-NM) tried to get a federal prosecutor fired after trying to lean on him. He gets a slap on the wrist. That's justice under Bush. Thanks to Talking Points Memo for the link.
Link: Bark Bark Woof Woof.
Check out this Inge festival in Kansas {on edit}. This looks great!
Link: Fear No Evil | Chicago Classical Music.
Actually the battle has been joined a good while ago.
Link: Orchestra Spotlight - Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Here is a nice success story about the Toronto Symphony. It helps to have a great music director like Peter Oundjian.
Link: stevenberlinjohnson.com: The Silent Room Tone.
This is an interesting essay. I attended a lecture tonight, and some of the dynamic Steven is referring to was present. There was a group of about eight students who were texting while listening to the lecture. At one point they began to chatter amongst themselves, causing a small murmur that the ushers were concerned about. The whole dynamic was fascinating.
Link: The Long Tail: Follow-Up on a Free Book Experiment.
Here is a follow-up on the controversial idea of giving books away before they are released.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center tribute is here beautifully described by Simon Rentner on the WBGO Blog, with lovely photos.
Link: The Washington Monthly.
Everyone does this kind of stuff to some extent, but McCain seems to have learned from the Bush presidency that on the economic front you can basically say anything you want and nobody will call you to account for it. So why not shoot for the moon?
Well-said, Kevin.
This article (along with the interactive metronome) confirms my feeling of how powerful music can be in healing and learning. This is an exciting field of research.
Link: David Byrne Journal: 04.15.2008: Come The Revolution.
I remember when MLK decided to tie the Vietnam War in with domestic issues like poverty and racism, and many thought it ill advised. They assumed he would lose some support—there were still some in favor of the Vietnam War at that point—and that it might dilute the focus on jobs, racism, equality and votes.
I think he was right. This stuff is tied together. Katrina and Iraq are not separate issues. The securities and safeguards guaranteed to the super rich by the Bush administration and the credit crisis are probably linked as well. I don’t mean conspiracy linked—the connections and actions don’t have to be premeditated or thought out in advance to make a network. There are organic emergent forces at work, self-organizing systems arising that benefit some and not others. That too sounds complex and conspiratorial, but it’s not.
I think MLK was right too. The people who are experiencing difficult economic times are feeling at least part of the huge waste of resources being poured down the hole in Iraq. Anyone who doesn't think the recession is related to the war is whistling in the dark.
Link: Behind Analysts, the Pentagon's Hidden Hand | Free Press.
This surprises nobody.
Link: The Washington Monthly.
Kevin has some sensible reactions to the reactions to the debate.
Link: Balloon Juice.
This is outstanding, and possibly even elite.
Universities contain not merely knowledge, but an ethos about the value of knowledge in living out your life. They communicate the conviction — at least the good ones do — that if you want to live a good life, you should live it attentively, with a mind always ready to be engaged in the pleasures and exertions of intellectual, moral, and aesthetic clarity. The arts and the sciences — that’s how we present our curriculum to you, and the distinction reflects this basic existential orientation toward, well, beauty and truth. The attentive intellectual has an informed and critical orientation toward the world; the attentive moralist approaches human quandaries with a grasp of ethical theory; the attentive aesthete responds to natural and created beauty with taste, judgment, and, often, aesthetic achievements of her own (playing a musical instrument well, knowing how to write a solid short story) that allow her an insider’s knowledge of a particular form of art.
Link: Journalists As Truth-Tellers - CommonDreams.org .
Ron Ridenhour was not a journalist when he came upon the truth of My Lai. He was in the Army. He later became a pioneering investigative reporter and–this is the irony–had trouble making a living in a calling where truth-telling can be a liability to the bottom line. Matthew Diaz and James Scurlock, whom you honored today, are truth-tellers without a license, reminding us that the most important credential of all is a conscience that cannot be purchased or silenced.