by Barry Lenson | Jul 10, 2016 | Conductors, Orchestral Conductors, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized
Why the Hottest New Orchestra Comes from North of the Arctic Circle Where does today’s hottest young orchestra come from? If you ask the next five or six music lovers you meet, most of them will probably answer that it must come from south of the border where...
by Barry Lenson | Jun 29, 2016 | Conductors, New York Philharmonic, Orchestral Conductors, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized
Let’s begin by watching this promotional video that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra produced about Jaap van Zweden several years ago. If you follow how America’s symphony orchestras hire conductors, you already know that the New York Philharmonic recently engaged...
by Barry Lenson | May 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
My last post offered a quick overview of what opera is. Today, in Part II, I’m going to describe the operas by Mozart that any bluffer needs to know about. Please come back here in future weeks, because I’ll be covering Baroque operas, German operas, Italian operas ....
by Barry Lenson | Apr 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
A Very Smart Bluffer’s Guide to Classical Music, a post that I published here back in 2014, has turned out to be the most popular post ever on this blog. That tells me that people have need to bluff about classical music. And if that’s true, let’s get opera into the...
by Barry Lenson | Feb 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Maestro John NelsonFor the last five years the Chicago Bach Project and maestro John Nelson have presented landmark performances of Bach’s choral masterworks, including Bach’s St. John Passionand St. Matthew Passion. Critics have called those performances “powerful”...
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