by Barry Lenson | Jan 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Looking back, I find that I have attended concerts conducted by the New York Philharmonic’s last six Music Directors. (Gulp, I must be a geezer.)Even though I only saw a small percentage of the total conducting output of each of these men (hope there’ll be a woman at...
by Barry Lenson | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I first encountered Le nozze di Figaro when I was a kid, I couldn’t make much sense of it. Characters jumped out windows, hid in closets, pretended that their feet were injured, and then to end the proceedings, they put on disguises and mistook one another’s...
by Barry Lenson | Dec 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Most people today seem to care less and less about whether other people are straight, gay, transgender, or transsexual. Perhaps the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage is one factor behind the trend. Another could be the growing public affection for certain gay...
by Barry Lenson | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
In a future post, I’ll write about some of the free open-enrollment courses that you’ll find on Coursera.com and other online learning platforms. I’m writing about something different today –lectures about classical music that you can watch online any time you...
by Barry Lenson | Dec 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you love classical music, you have already been feasting repeatedly on recordings of the often-performed violin concertos by Brahms, the Bruch no. 1, the Mendelssohn e minor, and the Tchaikovsky. In other words, the “biggies.”If you love the genre, you will find...
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