Allegro Largo Scherzo Finale

Well, my hopes/predictions really could not have been further off the mark. The elephant in the room is the absence of any opera (unless you count Simon O’Neill’s Wagner recital). There is a reasonable amount of chamber music on hand – almost all on the weekend of the 6th-7th of March’, but nothing really outside [...]

Part three of a series examining the curious lack of new symphonies. Part Two is here.
Culprit #5: Musical Directors
Throughout much of the early 20th Century, European audiences knew American composers as specialists in short orchestral works full of charming folk tunes; it was widely believed that there was no such thing as an American symphonist. [...]

(while I struggle to find time for my second real post)
Why is it that I detest so much popular music? What is it about “classical” or “contemporary classical” that attracts me?
The way they write is thoroughly off-putting, but Marcuse, Attali and Adorno make, between them, an excellent point. Music is not supposed to remain static. [...]

De profundis
Malaguena
Lorelei
The Suicide
On Watch
Madam, look!
At the Sante Jail
Zaporozhye Cossacks’ Reply to the Sultan of Constantinople
O Delvig, Delvig!
The Poet’s Death
Conclusion

More than a little ironically, I’m starting this blog by talking about a a symphony that is probably as far away from a traditional symphony as [...]