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One might be forgiven for feeling that programming two concertos on one concert program might be a tad overkill. And ordinarily I’d be chief among ...
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In a metropolis as culturally and musically vibrant as Los Angeles it takes an event of profound depth and scope to catch the attention of the enti...
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As with the sheep of New Zealand, one might be forgiven for thinking that there are more blogs lurking about the internet than there are people. Wh...
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I have just returned from spending two weeks in New York, the greatest city in the world. My fourth time to the state, but my first time to the Cit...
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My friend and colleague Tim Page, the former Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic of the Washington Post , has just written an article (more accu...
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Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton (Andrew Lloyd Webber to the rest of us) has predicted that 2012 will be a "bloodbath" for London's theatres . The ...
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© George S. Zimbel
Today marks what would have been the 93rd birthday of celebrated composer, pianist, conductor, and educator Leonard Bernst...
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Sunday, 21 August 2011 : There's a remarkable feeling abounding in the air - one of exhilaration tempered by exhaustion. It feels very like the mor...
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Thursday, 11 August : Just returned a short time ago from a wonderful chamber concert at Harris Concert Hall . The program for this sold-out conce...
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Thursday, 14 July : I live for days like this! This evening's concert by the Emerson String Quartet was--it goes without saying--superb. They deliv...
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Last week, on Wednesday and Thursday, students began arriving for registration for the 2011 Aspen Music Festival and School. They are a remarkably ...
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Monday, 27 June : Today marked the official start of the 2011 Aspen Music Festival and School. The morning began with an assembly of faculty and re...
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Tomorrow evening the Music Center (Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) will host another of its Friday Night Sing-Alongs. From 6:30 to 8p...
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Yes, giddy! Why? Well, it's the prospect of the HUNDREDS of concerts and recitals that are scheduled to take place this season here at the Aspen M...
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It's now just nine days before the start of the Aspen Music Festival and School and just a couple of days before the first students arrive for re...
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I don't make friends very easily. I've never been blessed with that gift. While I may have many fine attributes, natural warmth and sparkling perso...
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My first full week here was an abbreviated one. I had to briefly return home to Los Angeles at the weekend to fulfill a long-standing prior commitm...
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At last, I've arrived. Yesterday, in fact. Following a largely pleasant and uneventful flight from Los Angeles I arrived at Denver International Ai...
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I have some very exciting news to share. I was recently offered and have accepted a position with the 2011 Aspen Music Festival & School in Aspen...
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Renowned American cellist Bernard Greenhouse has died at the age of 95 (story here ). Mr. Greenhouse, who was for over three decades the cellist...
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