Monthly Archives: March 2009

Those ARE The Days, My Friends

MUZAK, ANYONE? The latest from embattled Cleveland – where Rodzinski, Szell and Dohnanyi once guided an orchestra to high distinction – is encapsulated in a report from a Plain Dealer article on that orchestra’s current plight and current emergency plans, … Continue reading

Posted in soiveheard.com | Comments Off on Those ARE The Days, My Friends

DEVASTATION

The slow movement of Mozart’s G-minor Quintet is as heartbreaking as any music I know. I have written about this music before – a couple of pages in the foreword to my book of this same name repeat an article … Continue reading

Posted in soiveheard.com | 7 Comments

MEHTA-PHOBIA

MEHTA-PHOBIA: Now and then you couldn’t help but recognize the sound of the Vienna Philharmonic: in the grandiose oratory of the massed brass that brought the first movement of the Bruckner Ninth to its close; to the trio of the … Continue reading

Posted in soiveheard.com | 7 Comments