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Classical Burgh: PSO Chamber Orchestra concerts no more!
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Classical music. Pittsburgh. Champagne. Wild times. Friday, March 27, 2009. PSO Chamber Orchestra concerts no more! Mr Druckenbrod at the PG posted today that, "Two years after the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra made a triumphant return to Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland with its chamber orchestra, the series will be dissolved.". He holds down a day job in the US Steel Building and is currently working on a biography of Emanuel Schikaneder, tentatively titled, What's Libretto Got to Do With It? Duquesne S...
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Classical Burgh: Review: La Sonnambula at the Met: Live in HD
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Classical music. Pittsburgh. Champagne. Wild times. Sunday, March 22, 2009. Review: La Sonnambula at the Met: Live in HD. Bottom line: stellar singing from Dessay and Florez couldn't totally compensate for overly conceptual direction by Mary Zimmerman and libretto so irrelevant it borders on the idiotic. I left after the first act, not unsatisfied, exactly- It's just that 90 minutes of this fluff was enough. I didn't need three hours. Beauty of Classical Music. Mac OS Paused Printer. Ionarts - DC Classic...
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Classical Burgh: June 2009
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Classical music. Pittsburgh. Champagne. Wild times. Thursday, June 18, 2009. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: the Honeck Era. A very nice collection of links. To all the PG's coverage of Manfred Honeck over the past few years. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). He holds down a day job in the US Steel Building and is currently working on a biography of Emanuel Schikaneder, tentatively titled, What's Libretto Got to Do With It? Beauty of Classical Music. Mac OS Paused Printer. Pitt Department Of Music Blog.
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Classical Burgh: digital downloads: join the future already, PSO!
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Classical music. Pittsburgh. Champagne. Wild times. Thursday, May 21, 2009. Digital downloads: join the future already, PSO! It's halfway through 2009 and no major orchestra that I'm aware of makes all their concert recordings available on iTunes? How hard can this be? The performances are already recorded. They play on WQED. How much work would it take to place them on iTunes and feature an ad on the program booklet: "Like the performance? Buy it on iTunes in two days"? He holds down a day job in the US...
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Classical Burgh: PSO: 2009-10 season, with exclamation points!!
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Classical music. Pittsburgh. Champagne. Wild times. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. PSO: 2009-10 season, with exclamation points! The Pittsburgh Symphony Orhestra has posted their 2009-10 season schedule. And it's crowd-pleaser after crowd-pleaser: Beethoven's Ninth and Third, Mozart's Requiem, Four Seasons, Rite of Spring, Symphonie Fantastique, The Planets, Also Sprach Zarathustra. throw in Bach's Air suite and we're officially out of risk-free repertoire. Some atypical highlights in 2009-10 include:.
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Classical Burgh: Phew!
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Classical music. Pittsburgh. Champagne. Wild times. Monday, February 9, 2009. After a four-day marathon including a ballet at the Benedum. A 4-hour opera at the movie theater. And a one-man show at the City Theatre. I am officially cultured out. For a few days. Will hopefully blog some thoughts on these soon. He holds down a day job in the US Steel Building and is currently working on a biography of Emanuel Schikaneder, tentatively titled, What's Libretto Got to Do With It? Beauty of Classical Music.
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Classical Burgh: PSO Review: Tortelier's enchanted, offensive journey
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Classical music. Pittsburgh. Champagne. Wild times. Monday, February 2, 2009. PSO Review: Tortelier's enchanted, offensive journey. Went to PSO on Saturday for Tortelier's Enchanted Journey. Anyway, next was Grieg's famous, fool-proof Piano Concerto, which was not fooled up by the wonderful Orion Weiss. Whose parents apparently had the chutzpah to name after a constellation. Despite vigorous applause, no encore was given (something I intend to work on in the coming months). Are you ready for the climax?
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Classical Burgh: Bolero, Beethoven 8 & Burgos at the PSO this weekend
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Classical music. Pittsburgh. Champagne. Wild times. Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Bolero, Beethoven 8 and Burgos at the PSO this weekend. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, a distinguished gentleman of 75, to conduct a staple, a lesser-known violin concerto, and a crowd-pleaser:. 1) Beethoven's 8th Symphony. 2) Édouard Lalo - Symphonie espagnole. Never heard this before although a couple recordings are in print ( Sarah Chang. Has some background on the piece and comments by Mr. Cardenes. 3) Ravel - Bolero. No, it...
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Classical Burgh: Welcome!
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Classical music. Pittsburgh. Champagne. Wild times. Saturday, January 31, 2009. Welcome to Classical Burgh, a blog devoted to cultural events in Pittsburgh: mainly classical music, but plays, musicals, and art, as well. Expect snark. Expect invectives. Expect sweeping generalization. Expect incredibly indignant, righteous, often groundless opinion. Expect the unexpected. Beauty of Classical Music. Mac OS Paused Printer. Pitt Department Of Music Blog. Pittsburgh New Music Net. PSO Blogs: Inside Perspective.
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Classical Burgh: Ravel's Trio
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Classical music. Pittsburgh. Champagne. Wild times. Tuesday, February 3, 2009. There's a wonderful recording of Ravel's Trio available for free from Boston's Gardner Museum podcast, idiotically called "The Concert". Available here. Direct link to MP3 file. He holds down a day job in the US Steel Building and is currently working on a biography of Emanuel Schikaneder, tentatively titled, What's Libretto Got to Do With It? Beauty of Classical Music. Mac OS Paused Printer. Pitt Department Of Music Blog.