Select Page
Tchaikovsky’s Vibrant Brass

Tchaikovsky’s Vibrant Brass

Vibrato has been a subject of lively debate in the discussion of performance practice for a couple of generations now, but usually when we talk about orchestral vibrato, we mean string vibrato, and, usually,  we’re talking about abstaining from said string...
Coming up short as a conductor

Coming up short as a conductor

This made me laugh. I am, generally speaking, not an aficionado of the short. As far as I can tell, shorts are at their most permissible as recreational or sporting clothes for kids or grown ups (biking shorts are allowed as long as you are on a bike, kids should be...
Ken’s June Newsletter

MahlerFest XXXII in Review

[Re-blogged from MahlerFest.org] BEYERS, DEVANE, KOREVAAR STANDOUT PERFORMERS AT MAHLERFEST XXXII Published in “Wunderhorn”, the Journal of the New York Mahler Society By Kelly Dean Hansen, Freelance Classical Music Writer In its 32nd year, the fourth...