Looney Tunes : Cartoon Conductor
EdCone.com (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Sometimes a story comes along that puts all our petty little disputes in perspective. "The conductor Roger Norrington, a champion of playing classical music in the style of its day, says he may play Elgar’s 'Pomp and Circumstance' March No....
On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
'There seems no denying the widespread opinion that photos of an orchestra performing are visually very dull. In the days when LPs were a wonderful canvas for art directors, except for putting the conductor on the cover, a classical music album with an image of orchestra on the cover was much rarer than one with something else more contrived' - is the opening of a well-researched piece on the use of...
Hear 2.0 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
...especially the last five minutes. Some outstanding weekend viewing from Benjamin Zander, author and conductor of the Boston Symphony. Not just for Classical music fans. Not at all for Classical music fans, in fact. But for leaders who forget that...
TED Blog (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Conductor Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. (Recorded March 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration:...
gigglesugar (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
At a classical music concert with star conductor Zubin Mehta, the audience's attention turned to a little feline who began prowling around in the audience. As Nancy Pelosi declared with glee, "A cat is in the house!" How it happened is not as important as the fact that it did. Maybe kitty's dream was to one day purr-form before an audience of hundreds? Dreams do come true. Get Flash to see this player....
Entertainment Blog (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
KBCI CBS 2 Detroit Symphony hopes robot conductor will fire up studentsThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoDETROIT (AP) — Classical music enthusiasts long have sought to drum up support for the musical genre among young people, and now they have a secret weapon: …Video: Robotic Conductor Finds His Rhythm AssociatedPressDSO led by robot maestro Detroit Free [...]
News & Information (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Classical music enthusiasts long have sought to drum up support for the musical genre among young people, and now they have a secret weapon: the 4-foot-3, childlike robot ASIMO. On……Read more
http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com (Free subscription) | 20/04/2008
Examiner But across Europe, musicians are being asked to wear decibel-measuring devices and to sit behind see-through anti-noise screens. Companies are altering their repertories. And conductors are reconsider… Read the full article here
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 13/04/2008
Touring classical-music video game makes everyone an orchestral conductor PHILADELPHIA (AP) Wave the baton too slowly and the orchestra arrayed on the screen plays
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Shock and surprise is built into Beethoven's DNA. But we have heard his music so often that it rarely elicits wonder and joy. How can we recapture that excitement? Russian pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev seems to have an answer, though the media response, even in the classical-music press, has been muted.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Copenhagen - Argentine-born conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim was Monday named winner of Denmark's 2009 Leonie Sonning Music Prize worth 600,000 kroner (120,000 dollars). The jury said he was one of the leading personalities in classical music a...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Nothing about the British composer and conductor Oliver Knussen is off-the-rack. Not his famous debut at age 15 in 1968, when he conducted his First Symphony with the London Symphony. Not his grizzly bear girth and lumberjack beard that cut an unusual profile in the concert hall. Certainly not his music, which is meticulous, mysterious, luminous and bewitchingly original.
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 02/12/2007
The hottest thing in classical music right now, by a country mile, is 26-year old Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who made his NY Phil debut last night. I couldn't make it, although I loved his account of Bartók's Concerto for...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 20/11/2007
Platt wins position in Boca Raton, Fla.The Boca Raton Symphonia has named Alexander Platt principal conductor and music adviser. The Symphonia, the chamber orchestra founded in 2004 in the wake of the closing o...
Muevete - Por un mundo mejor (Free subscription) | 04/11/2007
MUSIC REVIEW The Venezuelan conductor and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra show America how it's done. By Mark Swed Los Angeles Times Staff Writer November 3, 2007 SIMON says it is the most important thing happening in classical music in the world. “Simon” is Simon Rattle, music director of the Berlin Philharmonic. “It” is El Sistema, the youth orchestra program in Venezuela. “It” might also [...]...
