Monday, March 18, 2013
Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia for eight
voices and orchestra
Classical Music/Dance
A&E Feature
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) wouldn’t win any beauty contests, but his music did. Though ungainly in appearance, he was a man of noble soul and high poetic sensitivity. He was regarded as awkward and unsophisticated by many
Books
Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012
San
Francisco-based Phil Cousineau
has 15 documentary screenwriting credits, beginning in 1987 with The Hero’s
Journey, focusing on his mentor Joseph Campbell and predating the Bill Moyers
series of Campbell interviews...
A&E Feature
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
MSO revives a neglected masterpiece
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) is one of the great composers not programmed enough...
Classical Music/Dance
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Classical Preview
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Gustav Mahler, whose 10 epic symphonies comprise the culmination of the Austro-Germanic symphonic tradition. Born in Bohemia the grandson of a street peddler, by the time he died in 1911 he'd achieved renown throughout Europe as a conductor...
Classical Music/Dance
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010
Classical Preview
Many composers have set poems by Walt Whitman to music, but no one did it more beautifully and sensitively to the nuances of the words than Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). One of the greatest composers not only of England but of the world, he first became acquainted with Whitman when a fellow...
Books
Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
Phil Cousineau, the San Francisco-based writer, world traveler and documentary filmmaker, will hold forth at Boswell Book Co. this Friday, Oct. 29. He’s well worth catching, no matter what subjects his latest books are addressing. He’s a compelling raconteur who never fails to regale a roomful of listeners.
When I accompanied my friend Antler...
Classical Music/Dance
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010
Classical Preview
Edo de Waart began and ended last MSO season with exciting performances of two big Mahler symphonies: the Fifth last September and the Third last June. The current season will end next June with Mahler’s spectacular Second with choral finale. This weekend, for the second concert of his second...
Books
Monday, June 14, 2010
Book Preview
How wonderful when ways can be found to get the under-appreciated art of poetry across to the general public. In past years, poems have appeared among the ads that ran along the insides...
Classical Music/Dance
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
MSO season finale: Mahler’s Third
Gustav Mahler said, “A symphony must be like the world—it must embrace everything.” This weekend, as grand finale to his first season as the Milwaukee Symphony’s new music director, Edo de Waart has chosen Mahler’s colossal Symphony No. 3.
Once, when Mahler was 5, his father left him sitting on a tree stump in the Bavarian forest and told him to wait there until he returned...
