“Miss one day of practice, I notice; miss two, the critics notice; miss three, the audience notices”
https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/miss_one_day_of_practice_i_notice_miss_two_the_critics_notice_miss_three_th
Franz Liszt, the great pianist, once said: “If I miss practicing one day, I know it; if I miss two days, my friends know it; and if I miss three days, the public knows it.”
[The Western Stenographer, July 1894, pg. 13, col. 2]
classical music
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The Three Tenors joined to conquer.
When this trio of famous opera singers — José Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti— gave a one-night-only show at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on July 16, 1994, it was a massive spectacle watched by a billion people worldwide. More than that, the Three Tenors phenomenon permanently altered how a large amount of classical music is presented, packaged and sold.
Marin Alsop’s Guide To Mendelssohn’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
by Marin Alsop
May 24, 2014
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2014/05/23/315246245/marin-alsops-guide-to-mendelssohns-a-midsummer-nights-dream
Growing up as a violinist, Felix Mendelssohn‘s Violin Concerto ranked among my top 10 Holy Grail pieces. As I got older, I moved on to his Octet and Piano Trio in D minor, which became two of my favorite chamber works. There’s almost nothing comparable to playing Mendelssohn’s Octet with seven great string players. It’s absolutely thrilling, energetic, virtuosic, youthful, fun and challenging. And to think that Mendelssohn wrote it when he was just 16.
Only a year later, at the ripe age of 17, he wrote his Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, completely capt uring the magic and frivolity in the ethereal world Shakespeare created.
Candaele has turned his obsession with Beethoven’s Ninth into a documentary film: Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony.
http://www.followingtheninth.com
He follows the Ninth around the world, to Chile and China, where it became an empowering anthem of solidarity, and to Japan, where performances of daiku — the Great Nine — are a cherished annual tradition.
The Primitive Pulse of Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’
March 24, 2007
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9041627
The alien harmonies and jagged rhythms of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring signalled the birth of modern music in 1913.
Conductor Marin Alsop says the rambunctious score still sounds fresh today.
