All Entries Tagged With: "Johannes Brahms"

Tanglewood 2009 Season Highlights

The first snowfall has made idyllic hours whiled away on the lawn with a picnic and great music seem like a bit of a pipe dream. Nevertheless, shows are being planned, artists booked and marketing machines are gathering steam for the campaign ahead.
A release for the 2009 Tanglewood season arrived in the OM Inbox the [...]

Review: Penderecki String Quartet & Stéphan Sylvestre

In today’s Record
Usually most of the seats are occupied, but Wednesday night, The Music Room was packed nearly to the rafters. The Penderecki String Quartet, was giving a concert with young Canadian pianist Stéphan Sylvestre, a piano professor at the University of Western Ontario. Intimacy is one of the Music Room’s best features and the [...]

Just In Case You Were Wondering

A *hmmm I wonder* that turned into a 3-hour Excel love-in:
The stats are too incomplete at present to give absolutes for the top twenty but the top five pieces played by League of American Orchestra members from 2000/01 to 2005/06 [the last season for which stats are available] are:

Beethoven—-Symphony 7 — 288 times
Beethoven— [...]

On Folk Music

[originally a set of program notes]
What is easy to sing, has a highly repetitive modal melody, a small range, simple harmony and is immediately danceable?
Folk music!
It’s easy enough to describe but terribly difficult to define, since, although there are common features, the form folk music takes and the purpose for which it is [...]

Program Notes Catalogue

Miss Mussel writes programme notes for orchestral and chamber music concerts in England and would be happy to create an original set of notes for your next concert. Her preferred method is to write an essay that links the whole program together and discusses overarching themes rather than writing three or four independent notes. [...]

Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival 2008 Highlights

Roughly five hours drive from the Southern Ontario conglomeration that is Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, London, Toronto etc, Ottawa is a bit of a hike. Miss Mussel did consider using ad revenue to fund her trip but then discovered that the $10.42 she has earned since July 2007 would only get her as far as Milton….or [...]

Festival Of The Sound 2008 Season Highlights

Founded by Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti in 1980, the Festival Of The Sound has become one of Canada’s best known summer music festivals. The venue is the beautiful northern Ontario town of Parry Sound, located on Georgian Bay, roughly 150 miles north of Toronto. That’s 241 km for lives not lived under the Union [...]