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Get ready for the BSO
Boston Symphony Orchestra managing director Mark Volpe has the rundown for the upcoming season. He speaks with WBZ's Deb Lawler.
Audio|Fri, 4 Apr 2008|More from WBZ's More on This
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“…replacing -- Ellen Gilbert was becoming the music director of the New York philharmonic will be coming back to us and people like Charlie between -- account option under prevalent or another under easier great great …”
Cuba in Our Ears (IV): Ned Sublette
Revolutions come and go, but something about Cuba's music is forever. With Ned Sublette
Audio|Thu, 20 Mar 2008|More from Open Source
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“…play in the US since 2003. Meanwhile you know we of the New York philharmonic going to Pyongyang's. I don't even want to think about what John McCain's policy toward Cuba might -- …”
NPR: 02-27-2008 Music
Stories: 1) Aunty Keawe: One Tradition Ends, Another May Begin 2) Tasmin Little Takes the Classics to the Masses 3) A Beguiling Bluegrass Classic: 'Ruby' 4) Music Magazines Struggle as Ad Dollars Disappear 5) Singing Wi-Fi Radio's Praises 6) New York Philharmonic Set for North Korea Show
Audio|Wed, 27 Feb 2008|More from NPR: Music
Jackson's California property may go up for auction
(NECN) (NECN/ABC) - It's gonna to be a "Thriller" of a March for Pop icon Michael Jackson. He has until March 19th come up with more than $24 million to pay an investment bank or his "Neverland Ranch" northeast of Santa Barbara will be sold at a ...
Video|Wed, 27 Feb 2008|More from Boston.com - All Lineups
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“…And see every company is expected. And on the heels of the New York philharmonic performance in North Korea comes word that rock guitarist Eric Clapton now as we invite North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has …”
Here and Now for Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Consumer confidence is at it's lowest point in five years while the housing mortgage crisis is escalating and inflation is rising by double the rate analysts had predicted. We talk to Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy dot com. The subprime mortgage crisis is creating more collateral damage - this time for tenants. Realtytrac estimates that rental properties make up one in five foreclosures nationwide. And in some cities, like San Diego and Las Vegas, that figure jumps to nearly 50 percent. When banks foreclose, their goal is to clear out the property and sell it as quickly as possible. And that's leaving tenants looking for a new place to live. We talk to Inell Mendes, a Boston-area tenant; Steve Meacham, of the Tenant Advocacy Group, City Life/Vida Urbana, and Nicholas Retsinas, Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. Cuyahoga County in Ohio has been plagued with serious problems counting votes over the last few elections cycles. Like many places
Audio|Tue, 26 Feb 2008|More from WBUR: Here and Now
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“…enough to act as a means of diplomacy is at least the New York philharmonic is trying to put forward to -- by saying all North -- should have the opportunity to hear this music. Yes I think says a -- yeah and it's difficult to say but I think they certainly have a very ecstatic. We've been speaking with Alex -- professor of music at Harvard University about the New York philharmonic historic visit to North Korea Alex thanks so much for coming and thanks has been -- it. …”
“…entitled from the new world. It's one of the works that the New York philharmonic played today in Pyongyang North Korea along with the national anthems of both countries. It's the first time that an American orchestra …”
Here and Now for Thursday, February 21, 2008
Arizona Senator and G.O.P presidential front-runner John McCain emphatically denied this morning that he was too close to a female lobbyist. The New York Times reported that on the eve of McCain's first presidential campaign in 2000, his advisors had become worried about McCain's relationship with the lobbyist. Holly Bailey, National Political Correspondent for Newsweek Magazine was at McCain's press conference in Ohio this morning and joins us with details. At Guantanamo Bay today, the terror suspect Abu Zubaidah, who the Bush administration calls Al Qaeda's top military strategist, meets with his civilian lawyer for the first time. We speak with his lawyer Brent Mickum. And we ask Pentagon legal adviser Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann why Abu Zubaidah was not among the six men who, last week, were the first detainees to be charged with crimes. As the U.S. Navy tracks the debris from the spy satellite it shot down over the Pacific Ocean last night, the world weighs in with its
Audio|Thu, 21 Feb 2008|More from WBUR: Here and Now
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“…creator JK -- and fair use advocates. And later this month the New York philharmonic travels to North Korea for a series of the performances what part of politics. -- stories coming in the days ahead you're …”
NPR: 12-12-2007 Music
Stories: 1) Jandek: The Man from Corwood 2) Assads Mix Classical Guitar, Brazilian Heritage 3) Cecilia Bartoli: A Diva and Her Obsession 4) Love Letters and More from La Divina Up for Auction 5) New York Philharmonic Plans Concert in N. Korea 6) Pieta Brown Sticks to Her Roots in 'Remember'
Audio|Wed, 12 Dec 2007|More from NPR: Music
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“…went to the Soviet Union and the Bolshoi ballet came here. The New York philharmonic says it will traveled to North Korea in February to perform a concert of American and American inspired music. Here's NPR's Margot …”
“…Avery Fisher hall Lincoln center. -- gone through the chairman of the New York philharmonic say the and usual announcement they were making was in the tradition and history of this oldest orchestra in the united state. …”
A Way to Live: Craig Smith’s Bach Project
Conductor Craig Smith, world famous especially for his cycle of Bach Cantatas, leads this cheerful introspection on music as "a way to live." Smith died on November 14, 2007. This program is adapted from a WGBH television documentary from 1992.
Audio|Tue, 20 Nov 2007|More from Open Source
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“…to be. Famous pianist played Iraq powerhouse second don't care what the New York philharmonic so that I I have no supervision beyond that. And I was so envious I guess people who. Found a way to …”
“…a craft. I know quit my Zurich now to -- to the New York philharmonic has come to Emmanuel church has sages are come from the Boston symphony not that I know -- he may have but. …”
NPR: 07-21-2007 Music
Stories: 1) Philharmonic's New Conductor is Violinist's Son 2) Billy Bob Thornton Opens Another 'Door' 3) This Ice Cream Man's Treats Are Free 4) 'Summer of Soul' Melded Music, Cultural Change 5) Brad Paisley Shifts Into Witty '5th Gear'
Audio|Sat, 21 Jul 2007|More from NPR: Music
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“…Talking is a violinist with the New York philharmonic earlier this week she'd learned she's getting a new boss that Allen Gilbert to. Happens to be nice -- Talk the -- son Alan Gilbert will become the music director of the New York philharmonic in 2009. Well congratulations. …”
“…stepping into some pretty big shoes the former music directors of the New York philharmonic include the stuff -- and that toscanini and Leonard Bernstein. At the formidable. Well let me give you a great big softball …”
Requiem for Darfur
Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) As great as any of his 28 operas, Giuseppe Verdi's one Requiem is beyond category among the masterpieces of human affirmation in the depths of suffering and horror. Verdi wrote it in his 60's to mourn and remember his artistic heroes, the composer Rossini and the poet-novelist Manzoni. The Requiem lives in the choral and orchestral canon as a monument to Verdi himself: his belief, doubt, compositional craft and melodic genius. The work encompasses confessions of sin and guilt, a tour of hell, affirmations of faith and aspirations to heaven. Verdi's "Dies Irae," not normally part of the traditional Catholic requiem Mass, has become a Hollywood favorite soundtrack for unidentifiable terror. Prisoners at Terezin, the Nazi camp in Czecholovakia, learned and played the Requiem in defiance of their helplessness. Musicians play it still, not least to remember Terezin. George Mathew [William Lamson, Courtesy of New York Magazine ] Next Monday evening in Carnegie Hall in Manhattan, the Singapore-born Indian conductor George Mathew will lead an all-star cast in making " a symphonic statement to the world " about the unabated malevolence and misery often labeled "genocide" in the region of Sudan known as Darfur. The concert is a fundraiser, of course, for all the right relief teams. Jan Egland of the UN and Mia Farrow will take celebrity turns. The performers -- the cream of New York, Berlin and the Metropolitan Opera -- will be brilliant. But George Mathew's real hook into our hearts and consciences concerns the connection point among art, understanding and action. As in his Carnegie performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony last year for earthquake devastation in Kashmir, George Mathew is looking for an antidote to aestheticism, isolation and despair. And he believes that the answers are in the music -- with a fervor that makes others drop what they are doing. The New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow was surprised to get the call, "but George is extremely compelling," as he told New York Magazine . "Who else thinks of a musical event about helping people?" Bono and Bob Geldof, obviously, but not before this among classical players. Dies Irae in Sudan [Ron Haviv/VII, Courtesy DarfurDarfur.org ] Verdi's Requiem, Mathew says , "is simultaneously music of mourning, consolation and a stern, urgent reminder of accountability and responsibility that each of us bears for the well being of our fellow creature," added Mathew. "There is no more fitting way for us in the musical community to give voice to the acute need, fear, suffering and hope, of the victims of this catastrophe." My question to George is how his grasp of Verdi, and Beethoven, can strengthen our limp notions of what is happening in Sudan; how even a rapt contemplation in listening to Verdi can relieve our very contemporary American distance and indifference to what has become the hellish wallpaper of our media and our minds. George Mathew Artistic Director and conductor of Verdi's Requiem for Requiem for Darfur Conducting Staff, Manhattan School of Music Former General Manager, Boston Camerata Stephanie Kleschnitzki Coordinator and Sudan advisor for Requiem for Darfur Extra Credit Reading Cedric, Verdi's Requiem , SFist: Philistine , June 21, 2006: "Visiting conductor James Conlon twice asked for a perfect silence from the SF Symphony audience in Davies Symphony Hall, during Saturday's performance of Verdi's Requiem. The first time was to shush the house before opening the concert with the softest pianissimo from the cellos, a whisper of a murmur leading to the hushed prayer from the Chorus..." Jason, Friday 8 Track , OxyMoron: Hipster Dork , January 12, 2006: "Elements to note are the huge percussive hits that work in a call-and-response with the orchestral hits as well as the frantic high strings (similar to Wagner's darkest and angriest moments) that sound like the heavens are being burned from the sky." Euterpe's Daughter, Amused , Music'sDaughter , December 20, 2006: "My prof for my psych class...played music before every class this semester. When I recognized it, I noticed it was always topical (for example, OLP's Spiritual Machines on the day we talked about consciousness). The day of the exam, he played Verdi's Requiem....It sounds like the world is coming crashing down around your ears. Apocalypse! Destruction! Wailing and gnashing of teeth!" C. Dale Young, Quantus tremor est futurus , Avoiding the Muse , June 25, 2006: "Verdi's Requiem was amazing. I was riveted, and it seemed most of the audience was as well. Whatever people want to say, there is still a strange power hidden deep within the words of the Latin mass. It captivates. It mesmerizes. Despite having never heard Verdi's Requiem, I knew the lyrics, so to speak." Chris Jarrett and Alexis Rosenzweig, Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin , Radio Praha , May 24, 2006: "One Rafael Schaechter, using just a legless piano and with one single copy of the score, gathered over 150 fellow prisoners in a basement beneath the camp to rehearse a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem. On Sunday, 63 years on, the camp was once again the venue for Verdi's masterpiece, performed by musicians from the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music in remembrance of those who lived their last days in the grounds of Terezin."
Audio|Thu, 18 Jan 2007|More from Open Source