Arguably the leading expert on classical music on the 3rd floor of my building. Without question the leading expert on arbitrarily ranking things in the world.
Everything But The Music
The classics for those who like their music great and their sense of decency, uh, not so much.
I love your site. Keep it up !
I just discovered your website,and I really like it even though I don’t agree with all of your opinions. I’m a classical musician myself,a former horn player who has played under such well-known conductors as Joann Falletta,Maurice Peress, Arthur Weisberg and others in numerous orchestras ,concert bands and other groups.
I now have my own classical music blog at blogiversity.org, a website with blogs and forums on a wide variety of topics,and I cover all kinds of classical music for the site,orchestral,operatic,chamber,choral etc.
My blog is called THE HORN,and it’s geared to people who aren’t really familiar with classical music but would like to know more.
I have portraits of many different composers,famous and not so well known,profiles of famous operas and recommended recordings and DVDs,the latest news in classical music,classical humor, comparisons of classical music and politics,
and much,much more. I’ve been getting gratifyingly positive feedback on it. You can access the blog directly from links at the following classical music blogs:
blog.onopera.com, mahlerowesmetenbucks.blogspot.com,or
horndogblog.com, or just go to Recent Blogs Posts on the blogiversity.org home page and click on any posts by THE Horn.
I liked your post on famous concertos. Could you put something up about the wonderful but terrifyingly difficult Konzertstuck for four horns and orchestra by Schumann? It’s the musical equivalent of walking tightrope without a net over hungry lions and a pool of sharks.
I’m not sure I agree with you about a lack of great conductors today,and there are quite a few very promising young ones. We’ll have to see how they mature,and we shouldn’t write them off prematurely.
But any musical age that has the likes of Boulez, Haitink,Dohnanyi,Barenboim,Levine, Gergiev, Abbado, Colin Davis,Harnoncourt, Neeme Jarvi and his son Paavo, Jansons, Muti,
Rattle,Thomas,Slatkin,Zinman,Blomstedt,Chailly,Conlon,Dutoit,Eschenbach,Gardiner,Maazel,Mackerras,Rozhdestvensky,Salonen,Thielemann etc,has nothing to be ashamed of.
Hey Erik. Thanks for adding “The Daily Beethoven” to your blog roll (ie – your top 10 blogs of all time list). Your blog is totally awesome.
Ed
I likewise appreciate you linking to mine…it’s important that we stick together in the stuffy world of online classical music writing!
well, I think your judgment is rather perverse. I have seen him conducting and I thought he was rather good. Got the orchestra playing as one.
Tim
Hi Tim,
I’m glad to hear it. As I said in the comments of that post, I certainly don’t hope that Jensen is bad…it’s good for all of us if he’s good. That’s two people who have commented that his work was noteworthy, and that is wonderful. I can only hope that he will continue to improve. I will check back in with his work sometime from a better distance and see if I can appreciate it more.
The Rite of Spring, a score for listeners
In celebration of the centennial of the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, I’ve made an animated graphical score of it: http://www.musanim.com/rite/PressRelease.html
Stephen Malinowski
Music Animation Machine
stephenmalinowski.com