Musicon / Beethoven / Liszt / Musical education / M. Stegemann on Liszt as an arranger
One hundred years after his death, Liszt’s important place in musical history has still not been fully recognised. The three major periods of his life — the brilliance of the virtuoso (1820-1847), the decade as Kapellmeister to the Weimar court (1848-58) and the years in Rome, Weimer and ::More
Musicon / Classical Music / Musical education / Classical music is not about Beethoven – it’s about us!
In September, Alan Gilbert took over the New York Philharmonic in a concert broadcast on the PBS “Live From Lincoln Center” series. This week, Gustavo Dudamel led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in his first “official” concert, broadcast on the PBS series Great ::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 / Musical education / Inventing Bonds of Union in Symphonies
The desire of composers to have their symphonies accepted as unities instead of compages of unrelated pieces has led to the adoption of various devices designed to force the bond of union upon the attention of the hearer. Thus Beethoven in his symphony in C minor not only connects the third and ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Percussion
The percussion apparatus of the modern orchestra includes a multitude of instruments scarcely deserving of description. Several varieties of drums, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, steel bars (Glockenspiel), gongs, bells, and many other… Kettle-drums, or tympani, are generally used in pairs, ::More
