The other day I picked up the third season of Slings and Arrows, the Canadian series that chronicles the backstage comedy of thespians at the fictional New Burbage Festival. We don’t get cable or satellite, so we didn’t see the series when it ran on the Sundance Channel, but friends have recommended it, and we enjoyed [...]
A piece by Thomas Garry in today’s Daily Gorilla suggests that the Internet has made an infinite number of ways for people’s opinions to be heard, and therefore diminished the standing of the legitimate critic.
This is something I touched on a week or so ago in my comments on the CJR piece about arts criticism, and [...]
The press of business being what it is, I’ll have to do news briefs:
Classical TV: Next month, Classical TV will launch online with events such as pay-per-view opera; this is a British effort run by Chris Hunt, who was the chief executive of London’s DCD Media. Like Medici TV, a joint European effort that I [...]
If you’ve been paying attention to the AdSense blurbs on your Gmail (which are kind of creepy, the way they read your mail and find ads to go with it), you might have said something that took you to the site for the YouTube Symphony project.
At a concert this April in Carnegie Hall, Michael Tilson [...]
These days it seems as though I’m doing nothing but write, and not often enough for this blog.
But there was another piece I wanted to talk about in addition to The Atlantic article referenced in my last post. That piece is an article by David Hajdu in this month’s Columbia Journalism Review, and it’s headlined [...]
A couple interesting pieces in two magazines about the state of journalism and that of criticism of the arts:
The first is by Michael Hirschorn, who’s writing in The Atlantic about the coming death of print journalism. In it, he says many of the things those of us who spent many years in print journalism have [...]
Two other reasons to love the Internet if you’re a classical music fan.
One is the relatively recent return of the International Music Score Library Project, which debuted in February 2006, shut down in October 2007, and came back in June of the year just past. This is a site at which interested persons can download [...]
This year marks two important bicentenaries: the birth of Felix Mendelssohn and the death of Franz Joseph Haydn.
In both cases, and I suppose this is true of most composers, there is in their collected works a great deal of music that I never hear in concert. Here’s what I’d love to hear:
Mendelssohn: First and foremost, [...]
