Saturday with the SMP 2

by | Jun 23, 2007 | A view from the podium, Performing Life

This hall has wireless, so this is my first-ever mid-dress rehearsal blog post, which I thought would be an interesting exercise….  We’ve just finished the Shostakovich. We rehearse in a very loud, reverberant room, and this is a very dead, but clear hall. For the...

A Shostakovich concert for one

by | Jun 21, 2007 | A view from the podium

Rostislav Dubinsky was the founding first violinist of the Borodin Quartet, who worked intimately with Shostakovich in preparing performances and recordings of all of his fifteen string quartets. I studied chamber music with him at Indiana University from 1986-8....

I think therefore I am

by | Jun 19, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media

Okay, I’ve been tagged. Daniel Wolf at Renewable Music has tagged me as he was tagged by Matthew Guerrieri at Soho the Dog. It’s official- I’ve won the Thinking Blogger Award. Here’s how it works 1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs...

tradition=transgression

by | Jun 19, 2007 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts

So, later this week, I’m conducting, among other things, the Schumann Cello Concerto with the Surrey Mozart Players as part of our ongoing Schumann cycle. I find cello works challenging to accompany in a very specific way, because I’ve played most of them myself and...