As promised here I spent Christmas with Jewish Friends watching a movie and going out for Chinese. The movie, True Grit, was the first of three very good films I’ve seen in the last month. Each of them was enhanced by a fine score. True Grit I had my doubts about True Grit in the…
Hidden Classical Gems
(Mario Sarto) If you already know the classical repertoire, none of these are hidden. If you hate classical music, “You’re in the wrong place my friend, you better leave.” (B. Dylan, a classicist of another sort.) But if you’ve heard some classical stuff and like it –maybe Beethoven’s 9th , or the 5th, the Brandenburg…
Unfashionable Music – Classical
Classical Music on Life Support For years music critics have bemoaned the decline of classical music – with good reason. CD sales keep falling, along with concert attendance. Orchestras and opera companies face life and death struggles. Radio stations with exclusively classical formats are a dying breed. You don’t have to be a music critic…
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