Archive: music on the Web
NPR: trends of the decade
Trends of the decade: a look back at the last ten years of classical music, in a discussion I had with Tom Huizenga of NPR.
By Anne Midgette | November 17, 2009; 04:00 PM ET | Comments (0)
Monday on the Web
A free webcast of the Berlin Philharmonic streams tonight: an ongoing benefit auction from the American Music Center offers signed scores or the right to commission new works, as well as gifts and jewelry.
By Anne Midgette | November 9, 2009; 05:51 AM ET | Comments (0)
Fermi in music
The founder of Classical Archives presents a new symphony honoring the Fermi Space Telescope. Maybe music is better without the science.
By Anne Midgette | November 3, 2009; 06:38 AM ET | Comments (2)
News and notes
News roundup: the National Symphony announces four new players; composer Lera Auerbach loses her apartment to fire; Sondra Radvanovsky breaks a toe, and sprains an ankle, and tears a ligament for opening night.
By Anne Midgette | October 29, 2009; 06:36 AM ET | Comments (1)
Orchestras' class(room) act
On-line educational initiatives by orchestras: do we want to convey the idea that you have to be lectured at in order to enjoy classical music?
By Anne Midgette | October 28, 2009; 10:30 AM ET | Comments (13)
Saturday Night Fever
Three things to do on Saturday: hear Yuliya Gorenman play five Beethoven sonatas; hear a concert of chamber music by a Catholic University professor; or stay home and watch Gustavo Dudamel on a live webcast (what, again?).
By Anne Midgette | October 2, 2009; 06:28 AM ET | Comments (0)
The New Orchestra Tour
Orchestral simulcasts this weekend: the Washington Conservatory will pick up the Philadelphia Orchestra's live broadcasts (in a theater), while Dudamel conducts the Berlin Philharmonic live on the Philharmonic's digital concert hall (on your computer).
By Anne Midgette | September 18, 2009; 06:30 AM ET | Comments (0)
Resistance is Futile
In honor of Saturday night's season opener at Washington National Opera, a look at four tenors (including Lawrence Brownlee, who will do it at WNO) taking on Almaviva's fiendishly difficult final aria from "Il barbiere di Siviglia." Your thoughts?
By Anne Midgette | September 11, 2009; 06:30 AM ET | Comments (0)
Snapshots from Germany
A roundup from Germany: "Moses und Aron" opens Willy Decker's first season at the Ruhr Triennale; Christof Loy's "Louise" leads a critic's poll of best German stagings last season; and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra comes under scrutiny from government accountants who say it costs too much. Also: the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall is open for business.
By Anne Midgette | August 31, 2009; 07:15 AM ET | Comments (4)
MaestroCam
A fine extra feature on the website of the BBC Proms provides specific commentary about selected conductors: check out Maestrocam.
By Anne Midgette | August 24, 2009; 12:10 PM ET | Comments (3)
Critics and CDs
Gramophone magazine reveals the short-list for the annual Gramophone awards, backing up one commenter's observations on the failure of the critical establishment to reflect what's actually going on in the CD industry today.
By Anne Midgette | August 21, 2009; 06:30 AM ET | Comments (6)
And All That Jazz
Terry Teachout's blog post following up on his Wall Street Journal article "Can Jazz Be Saved?" has considerable relevance to the classical music field - as he knows full well.
By Anne Midgette | August 19, 2009; 06:07 AM ET | Comments (8)
Kaiser (on a) Roll
Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center and go-to guy for arts companies in trouble (meaning, these days, just about everyone), gives a radio interview today to Norman Lebrecht (listen live on-line).
By Anne Midgette | August 4, 2009; 09:00 AM ET | Comments (7)
Bach to Bach
The Baltimore filmmaker Michael Lawrence has spent several years interviewing more than 30 musicians, writers, and scientists about Bach: the resulting film is still in post-production, but you can spend a lot of time browsing through the footage on his website.
By Anne Midgette | July 29, 2009; 06:30 AM ET | Comments (0)
New Blog on the Block
Andrew Lindemann Malone, who used to write often and well for the Washington Post, has started a new classical music blog with his own thoughts on concerts in the D.C. area.
By Anne Midgette | July 28, 2009; 10:36 AM ET | Comments (5)
Bay(reuth)watch
The Bayreuth Festival manages to open on schedule with an old "Tristan" and a new children's version of "Flying Dutchman." See it live on the Internet -- for a price -- on August 9.
By Anne Midgette | July 28, 2009; 06:30 AM ET | Comments (1)
Marvelous Marta
A salute to the wonderful Marta Eggerth (with YouTube video of her at the young age of 80).
By Anne Midgette | July 23, 2009; 06:30 AM ET | Comments (0)
The CD Side of Music
More on CDs: another blogger weighs in on the question of whether the actual physical product still matters. (It depends in part on how old you are.)
By Anne Midgette | July 21, 2009; 08:30 AM ET | Comments (5)
Hi Infidelity
Soundcheck, on WNYC radio, invites me to talk about infidelity in opera. Onstage, of course.
By Anne Midgette | July 10, 2009; 01:03 PM ET | Comments (4)
The Bar-iPhone Voice
Thomas Hampson gets his own iPhone app from instantencore.com.
By Anne Midgette | July 9, 2009; 05:40 PM ET | Comments (0)
Big Brother Is Listening
A new site called musoc.org promulgates the view, so damaging to our field, that classical music is simply better across the board than all other forms of music.
By Anne Midgette | July 2, 2009; 09:30 AM ET | Comments (12)
China Syndrome
A link to my conversation about the China trip on the Website of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
By Anne Midgette | June 24, 2009; 05:24 PM ET | Comments (13)
Hitting the Links
Links from around the Web: Henry Fogel on orchestra boards; the Cliburn competition picks the wrong winners yet again; the NSO blogs about its Asia tour.
By Anne Midgette | June 12, 2009; 12:25 PM ET | Comments (2)
Opera and the Young, Redux
Yet another contest designed to reach young audiences (good luck with that) manages to capture at least one fresh young outlook - in my opinion.
By Anne Midgette | June 3, 2009; 07:41 AM ET | Comments (1)
Housekeeping Notes
How to navigate the Web-only reviews that appear on this blog (yes, they are archived); and the people who write them.
By Anne Midgette | June 3, 2009; 06:29 AM ET | Comments (0)
Weekend Roundup: Notes from All Over
A link to Philip Kennicott's review of "Salome" at the Opera Theater of St. Louis; acknowledgment of Robert Wilson's "Freischütz" in Baden-Baden; and a look ahead at this year's "June in Buffalo" festival, which starts today.
By Anne Midgette | June 1, 2009; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (1)
Opera: Young at Art
Why Rupert Christensen is wrong: opera is made for teenagers. As long as it doesn't talk down to them.
By Anne Midgette | May 28, 2009; 06:30 AM ET | Comments (16)
Streaming the Competitive Spirit
The Cliburn Competition starts - now. Watch it live on-line.
By Anne Midgette | May 22, 2009; 01:30 PM ET | Comments (0)
#operaplot Delivers to DC Teacher
The #operaplot contest on Twitter has a surprise happy ending for a Washington, DC music teacher.
By Anne Midgette | May 20, 2009; 08:05 AM ET | Comments (0)
Downloading the Classics
Classical Archives, a new site selling classical music downloads, reinvents the wheel but rolls pretty well; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's classical music podcast The Concert has its millionth download.
By Anne Midgette | May 14, 2009; 06:30 AM ET | Comments (7)
The Song Continues, in a New Key
The Marilyn Horne Foundation announces its upcoming merger with Carnegie Hall's Weill Institute; the San Francisco Symphony launches a new social networking site, called, imaginatively, "Social Network."
By Anne Midgette | May 6, 2009; 02:00 PM ET | Comments (1)
For the Record: Met Opera Broadcasts On-Line
Previewing the Met Player (free this weekend); some thoughts on Heifetz.
By Anne Midgette | May 1, 2009; 01:25 PM ET | Comments (5)
Link Denk
The amusement I got at seeing myself mentioned in one of my favorite blogs is only compounded by the fact that I now have a blog myself to mention it in...
By Anne Midgette | March 31, 2009; 05:15 AM ET | Comments (0)
The Plot Twitters
This past weekend's internet fad: opera goes viral.
By Anne Midgette | March 30, 2009; 03:00 PM ET | Comments (6)
Classical 2.0: A Critic Joins the Blogosphere
On the Web, a newspaper's classical beat is larger than ever before. In this blog, I hope to touch on a range of music and news and thought that would not be possible in the confines of a daily paper.
By Anne Midgette | March 30, 2009; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (41)
