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 The best of August on Classical LifeSeptember 1st, 2009, 10:55 am by Timothy Mangan, music criticLast month, if the numbers don’t lie, readers especially enjoyed these Classical Life postings: star wars: in concert comes to o.c. berlin philharmonic to offer live webcasts throughout 2009/10 season sisyphus with an ipod, or, music you really hate pages from (old) chicago symphony program books Click again, relive the thrill. Stay thirsty, my friends. O.C. Youth Symphony to join Mozarteum Orchestra for U.S. premiereAugust 31st, 2009, 6:16 pm by Timothy Mangan, music critic
The Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, will join conductor Ivor Bolton and the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra to perform the United States premiere of Kurt Schwertsik’s “Herr K. endeckt Amerika” (Mr. K. discovers America) Oct. 22 and 23 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. The work is part of the Mozarteum ensemble’s 2 Orchestras project which aims is to commission new works for joint performance by youth and professional orchestras. The Mozartuem Orchestra plans to commission five such new works in the next few years, with the world premieres to take place in Salzburg through 2016. After the premiere of each work, other orchestras will be allowed to perform them. “The young musicians share desks with the professionals, and even less experienced young players will be able to manage the compositions for Richter plays Rachmaninoff’s Prelude, Op. 32, No. 10August 31st, 2009, 2:50 pm by Timothy Mangan, music critic
Someone named “rmannion” has been posting videos on YouTube which show the score of a classical piece as it is performed by a famous pianist. Here is Sviatoslav Richter in 1971 performing Rachmaninoff’s Op. 32, No. 10 Prelude, as the music flips by. Why this? Well, it’s a good piece, and, for what it’s worth, it happens to be one of James Ellroy’s favorites, and his favorite recording of it. Angela Bassett and other celebrity guests at pageant galaAugust 30th, 2009, 6:52 pm by RICHARD CHANG, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Angela Bassett, second from right, dines with friends at the Pageant of the Masters Gala Benefit Saturday night. The Pageant of the Masters had its 11th annual Gala Benefit Saturday night. Angela Bassett, Florence Henderson, Eve Plumb, Donna Mills, Joe Mantegna, Richie Sambora and other celebrities partied, dined and watched the 76th annual pageant. Read all about it in The Orange County Register. Related links:
Minnelli delivers at the Hollywood BowlAugust 29th, 2009, 1:06 pm by PAUL HODGINS, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Liza Minnelli played the crowd as only she can at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night. Read my review and see a Register slideshow of Liza and her fans. Related stories on the Arts Blog: Minnelli is coming to the Hollywood Bowl Espinosa ignores the ghost of Liza while preparing for “Flora” Pages from (old) Chicago Symphony program booksAugust 29th, 2009, 9:39 am by Timothy Mangan, music critic
Reader Donald Thompson, of Huntington Beach, recently sent me some Chicago Symphony program booklets from the late ’30s and early ’40s. He attended these concerts, he said. As usual with such items, they’re fun to browse. (Click on images for larger views.) You never know what you’ll find. For instance:
An advertisement (!) for the Chicago Sun’s music critic, who also happens to be the symphony’s program annotator. You can’t do both, these days. Conflict of interest. And doesn’t he look just how you imagine a music critic should look? Complete works of Shakespeare to be tweetedAugust 28th, 2009, 12:29 pm by PAUL HODGINS, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTERWell, you knew someone would try this sooner or later. The complete works of William Shakespeare are being tweeted. At 140 characters per entry, and assuming participants are at it 24/7, it’ll take two years and 13 days if they produce one tweet every 10 minutes. It’s the brainchild of this person, who offers a non-explanatory explanation. Related stories on the Arts Blog: Twittering conductor responds to his critics Make me barf, or whatever happened to program notes? Twitter play has its fans, detractors All the world’s a twittery stage ADVERTISEMENT
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