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Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Video
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 30th March 2013Tweet The video below give a good picture of how good Lubbock’s premiere arts organization is. The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra would be outstanding in a city 10 times our population. Here it verges on the miraculous.
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Chopin Nocturne Op 27 No 2
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 28th March 2013Tweet For the most beautiful 77 bars in music listen to Chopin’s spectacularly beautiful Nocturne Op 27 No 2. Written in 1836 when the composer was 26 years old. It’s like a sigh from heaven. The pianist is Arthur Rubinstein. The pieces show why Chopin, despite essentially being a miniaturist, was one very greatest composer since…
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Metropolis Elektro at the LHUCA
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 26th March 2013Tweet Fritz Lang’s silent movie epic with an original soundtrack was performed live to two sold out audiences on March 22 and 23 at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts. The music was written by Scott & Amy Faris. The film was the opening work of the 2013 Flatland Film Festival. Metropolis is a landmark in the…
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Haydn Violin Concerto: 2nd Movement
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 22nd March 2013Tweet If you had any doubts that Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was among the handful of the greatest composers the slow movement of his Violin Concerto #1 in C should erase them. The reading below by violinist Andras Agoston has a long cadenza near the movement’s end. The video of the entire concerto with Joshua…
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Conrad Tao and the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 20th January 2013Tweet I usually don’t write about the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra’s concerts because I am too close to the performers and managers to be either objective or frank. But last night’s performance by Conrad Tao with the LSO was so out of the ordinary that I have to mention it. Tao is an 18 year old wunderkind . Born in…
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San Francisco Symphony Plays Pärt, Bartók, and Respighi
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 7th October 2012Tweet Last night the San Francisco Symphony presented a program of 20th century music of very different styles under the leadership of the young (born 1976) Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko. The program began with Arvo Pärt’s 1977 composition Fratres. Pärt has reworked this piece many times; the San Franciscans played the 1991 version. The basic structure of work is…
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Joseph Schmidt – In English
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 19th September 2012Tweet Romanian tenor Joseph Schmidt (1904-42)was one of the vocal wonders of the last century. He had the most complete technique of any tenor in the recorded age. He could do anything, runs, trills, molten beauty and legato – all were his. All he lacked were height and luck. His sad story is well known and…
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Lubbock Symphony Opens 2012-13 Season
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 11th September 2012Tweet The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra’s new season opened last night at a sold out Civic Center Theater. Maestro David Cho conducted his first concert as the orchestra’s music director. The guest artist was cellist Yo-Yo Ma who performed Elgar’s Cello Concerto. The first half of the evening was devoted to Czech music. The program began with Smetana’s overture…
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The I Lombardi Trio
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 31st May 2012Tweet Two days ago I posted the the great trio from Verdi’s I Lombardi, Qual voluttà trascorrere, sung by Erwin Schott, Anna Netrebko, and Jonas Kaufmann. Listening to it caused me to revisit the recording of this number made exactly 100 years ago by Enrico Caruso with Frances Alda and Marcel Journet. Caruso interpolates two high notes near the end and likely had his…
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Mozart, Verdi, and Heart Transplantation
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 27th March 2012Tweet This observation appeared just five days ago. It sounds like it belongs in the Journal of Irreproducible Results rather than the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Nevertheless, here is the paper’s abstract : Auditory stimulation of opera music induced prolongation of murine cardiac allograft survival and maintained generation of regulatory CD4+CD25+ cells Masateru Uchiyama, Xiangyuan Jin, Qi Zhang,…
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