- Rest in Peace. Extraordinary musician, even more extraordinary person.
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919 points39 comments5 d ago
- The LA Philharmonic offers $25-$30 "Rush" tickets where you're seated on benches behind the orchestra. The view from my seat yesterday.
&x200B; The program was Betsy Jolas's Latest, Bernstein's symphony 1, and Brahms' second piano concerto with Leif Oves Andsnes. My biggest fear for where I was sitting was distorted sound, but it...
433 points50 comments4 h ago
- Mendelssohn would have flinched at how we've adapted one of his most famous tunes.
273 points45 comments4 d ago
- Herbert Blomstedt has died
Confirmed by his management here
220 points47 comments5 d ago
- Abbie Conant Facebook post on the institutionalized sexism of orchestras
192 points203 comments2 d ago
- Nov 4: Brahms's Symphony No. 1 premiered on this day (1876), 150 years ago.
150 years ago today, on November 4, 1876, Brahms's First Symphony was premiered in Karlsruhe, not Vienna, with his friend Felix Otto Dessoff conducting. Brahms conducted it himself in Mannheim...
135 points20 comments6 d ago
- Sweet letter Blomstedt wrote to Bernstein in 1967, a decade after studying with him at Tanglewood
121 points5 comments4 d ago
- Let’s do a full count: How many Bernstein students are still alive and actively working after this year?
Should we list them as protected species under the UN charters? I feel blessed to have grown up watching two in my formative years
94 points34 comments5 d ago
- The composer Bach walked 250 miles to hear: a short intro to Dieterich Buxtehude
Most people know Bach and Handel. Fewer know the man both of them went out of their way to visit. Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637 to 1707) was organist at St. Mary's Church in Lübeck for nearly 40...
89 points22 comments4 d ago
- Indie comedy about life in the classical music world, starring Juilliard alum Isabel Hagen, screening online Nov. 12
ON A STRING is an independent comedy about a struggling violist in New York City trying to find her footing in the classical music world. When her toxic ex-boyfriend reappears as the orchestra's...
84 points19 comments4 d ago