What would Beethoven think You compose a symphony and then hand its premiere over to utterly untrained conductors.
Untrained conductors get a go
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Music: Cloudborne Cellist
Among musicians, cellists are known as incurable sentimentalists. This quality is half-humorously assumed, partly because of the tightlipped, tear-laden whine the instrument so easily develops in its upper register, partly because of the overenthusiastic use of that register by romantic composers
War on Korean Peninsula: High Tension Prompts Scenarios
“A symphony of death.” That’s the chilling phrase that Kurt Campbell, who is now Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Obama Administration, once used to describe the likely outcome of any military encounter on the Korean peninsula between the U.S., its ally South Korea and their mutual enemy across the 38th parallel in the North.
Music: San Francisco Goes Big Time
A lot of little misses at Davies Hall may yet make a hit Building a large concert hall is one of the grand gambles a city can make. The latest to try its luck is San Francisco, which opened Louise M.
Music: Which U.S. Orchestras Are Best?
Rising standards outside the Big Five create a new elite Their players are highly skilled specialists, prized for their uncommon physical abilities and welded into a team by a strong figure of authority. Their seasons are long, routinely lasting from early fall to late spring and often extending into the summer.
How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?
Hannah Pauline Tarley, a ponytailed 17-year-old violinist, smiles for the camera. Then she plays the opening notes of an excerpt from Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 as she sways in a room decorated with stickers and posters of the Beatles and the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra