Musicon / Music and Literature / Notes / Boulez: Let us demand more from ourselves!
If you want to have a more interesting life, you will make some effort. It’s about the organization of one’s life. I am still shocked that so many people are not more creative, by which I mean more demanding of themselves. The main question we need to ask ourselves is: Do I try to be ::More
Musicon / Notes / Vienna Boys Choir - Professionalism in tradition and innovation
For more than half a millennium, these 10- to 14-year-olds have been singing an eclectic range of music, from Medieval to classical performances. But they’ve come a long way from belting choruses in Austrian’s imperial court. In fact, Vienna Boys Choir have gone global. Gerald Wirth, ::More
Musicon / Notes / Barenboim, Beethoven and Berlioz in Athens, 2009
Yesterday night I was with friends at Herodes Atticus Odeon in Athens, where Daniel Barenboim and the Filarmonica della Scala played the 3rd piano concerto of Beethoven and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. The audience was listening in solemn silence and it was very warm and welcoming. ::More
Musicon / Notes / The thrill of being present at a great concert
There’s something magically immediate about witnessing a musical event, as compared with letting your iPod shuffle through your stored playlists. Part of the thrill of being present at a great concert is knowing that it’s happening in this place and time, among these people, and can ::More
