by Barry Lenson | Dec 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
What kind of music is optimistic? Love duets from operas are. In them, two people who are crazy about each other see a bright future ahead. Even though the course of their true love will not run smooth (an opera needs a plot, after all), at the moment everything looks...
by Barry Lenson | Nov 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Barry Lenson Prepare to be surprised when you listen to the new 2-CD release of Eleonor Bindman playing her piano arrangements of Bach’s Cello Suites. Ms. Bindman’s arrangements faithfully include the notes you will find in the original Bach, but have become works...
by Barry Lenson | Oct 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Eric Coates, a composer who lived from 1886-1957, is usually characterized as “a composer of light English music.” Is that correct? Is that fair to him? We are not so sure. We think we would replace the adjective “light” with “happy,” “nostalgic” and “charming.” But...
by Barry Lenson | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Scherzo from the Concerto Symphonique No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra by Henry Charles Litolff Henry Charles Litolff (1818-1891) was a well-regarded French pianist, composer, and music publisher in his day. Among his compositions are five Concertos Symphoniques for...
by Barry Lenson | Sep 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
We’ve already written about Dan Brown’s delightful new children’s book Wild Symphony on this blog. We are writing about this book again today for two reasons. One is that since we last wrote about it a month ago, we have come to love it more and...
by Barry Lenson | Sep 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
An out-of-this-world, exclusive playlist for members of Classical Archives Last week we published “Can E.T. Carry a Tune?”, a blog post by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute. It was a terrific post in which Seth explored whether extraterrestrials...
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