Something to listen to: Dvorak Symphony no. 8

Antonin Dvorak

Serious composer is serious

Roger Norrington is an idiot.

His little to no vibrato reputation precedes him everywhere he goes, from that BBC reality show with celebrities conducting to Stuttgart to the barber where he receives the finest fringe cut I’ve personally ever seen.  It seems to me that Norrington is the musical equivalent of being the one senator who believes that dinosaurs are a myth, or that Hurricane Katrina was God’s revenge for homosexuality, or that masturbating is adultery. Continue reading