by Barry Lenson | Feb 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Renée Fleming, Opera Ambassador to the World of SportRenée Flemingdid a top-notch job of singing our national anthem at the Super Bowl last night, don’t you think? She is a heck of a singer.In case you missed it, here it is . . . Today, the day after, tweets are...
by Barry Lenson | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Harmonic rhythm is the rate at which the underlying harmonic chords change in a piece of music. If you’re listening to a piece and the chords change at the rate of once a measure (from the tonic [I] to the dominant [V], or whatever), that piece has a faster harmonic...
by Barry Lenson | Jan 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
On December 10th, I wrote that Alan Gilbert is the finest Music Director that the New York Philharmonic has had during the last five decades.That statement – that he is the finest – logically demands that I comment about the Music Directors who preceded him. So here I...
by Barry Lenson | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
I was listening to a classical radio station last week and found one of them again – a pretentious, affected, stuffy announcer who made classical music sound alienating and unattractive. It made me think that if I were a young person just discovering classical music...
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...
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