Yesterday was Philip Glass’s birthday and I missed it. So sorry! Yesterday was Philip Glass’s birthday and I missed it. So sorry! Yesterday was Philip Glass’s birthday and I missed it. So sorry! Yesterday I missed it. So sorry! Yesterday I missed it. So sorry! Yesterday I missed it. So sorry! Yesterday I missed it. So sorry! I missed it. Sorry! I missed it. Sorry! Sorry! Glass. Sorry! Glass. Sorry! Sorry! So. Glass. So. So. So. Yesterday.
That’s not music, it’s bagpipes.
-Special Agent Seeley Booth, on the show “Bones”
Is this a joke?:
In his spoken remarks after intermission, McWilliam explained that the Barber work was subbed for the Carter because of a Homeland Security issue, without going into the details. (Are TSA officers now doubling as critics?) Though a bit less pristine, the rendering of Summer Music brought out the lyric languor as well as the vivacity.
I’m going to guess that hornist McWilliam was making a joke, but who knows?
You can read the entire review of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet here.
i just finished practicing the oboe. whoa im winded!!!
Just couldn’t resist putting this up …
Yikes, that’s one high oboe part! I think I’d prefer to stick to the violin/viola version.
(And the title isn’t really true, for those of you worried that Mozart really originally wrote this for oboe & bass oboe.)
If I had been asked to score a Mel Gibson action film, I would have refused it – not because it isn’t a perfectly valid idea, but because it is wrong for me.
-John Corigliano
Composer John Corigliano speaks rather graciously about having his score dropped from the latest Mel Gibson (patty-will-never-see-it) movie, Edge of Darkness.
RTWT
I have a habit of finishing books in hotels. I sent off The Rest Is Noise from the downtown Omni in Los Angeles; Listen To This, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish at the end of September, went forth last week from a Marriott in Park City, Utah. The new book is a panoramic collection of musical essays, taking in Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Brahms, Marian Anderson, Frank Sinatra, Cecil Taylor, Led Zeppelin, Björk, Radiohead, Mitsuko Uchida, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Luther Adams, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Bob Dylan, and the Malcolm X Shabazz High School Marching Band. In the Preface, I say that the aim is to “approach music not as a self-sufficient sphere but as a way of knowing the world.”
I’m definitely looking forward to Alex Ross’s new book!
