Discovering the Glories of Tchaikovsky’s Church Music
We invite you to watch this video of a performance of one of Tchaikovsky’s sublime “Cherubic Hymns” Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky has rightfully earned a place on lots of “greatest” lists. He is one of the greatest ballet composers of all time, one of the greatest...
Take a Virtual Tour of the New Steinway Hall with Steinway and Son Releases on Classical Archives
I was lucky enough to take a tour of the new Steinway Hall last April, just before it opened at 1133 Avenue of the Americas in New York. I am happy to report that a lot of the positive features from the old Steinway Hall, long located on 57th Street, are present in...
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Enjoy the Arctic Philharmonic’s New Releases Today on Classical Archives
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...
Let’s Meet Jaap van Zweden . . . with a little help from Classical Archives
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 Jaap...
A Very Smart Bluffer’s Guide to Opera, Part Two: The Operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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 ....
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