She didn’t get to finish her London run, but there’s energy to burn in New York.
Review here.
Friends have informed us of the death, aged 92, of Barbara Carroll, described by Leonard Feather in 1947 as ‘the first girl to play bebop piano.’
Barbara made numerous recordings with the big boys and many original arrangements.
The Korean pianist Hai-Kyung Suh came to London last month to record videos at Henry Wood Hall, including this Mozart Fantasia.
Barely had the video gone live on Youtube than Sony Music Entertainment issued an opportunistic takedown order, claiming the video was the work of Lili Kraus, who died in 1986.
Apparently, this is common practice at Sony. The companyy recently blocked a Valentina Lisitsa video, falsely claiming it was the work of Glenn Gould.
Lisitsa wrote: Here are 90 seconds Sony Music Entertainment claims is an EXACT match to Glenn Gould’s rendition of Bach Partita #2. So exact, that they have blocked mine in 244 countries. Repeatedly.
What you hear is not a humorous “shred”, it’s two soundtracks superimposed – mine and Gould’s.
I synchronized the beginning of the clip exactly from where the claim starts. Does SME and Youtube’s ContentID really think it is identical? As you can well hear, the tempo is not the same the rhythm is not the same…. The clip gets out of sync from the very first second. It gets “together” for a moment somewhere in the middle.
I hope this example will be of use for those youtubers who fight daily to remove abusive claims placed by big corporations. And I hope someone gets sued so the abuse stops.
Anyone at Sony care to comment?
The Russian Valentin Uryupin, winner of the Solti conducting competition, has previously won the ARD and Geneva competitions in clarinet.
Now 31, he is permanent conductor at Theodor Currentzis’s opera house in Perm and artistic director in Rostov.
Like Osmo Vanska, he knew when the tootling had to stop.
The latest manifestation of Leonard Cohen’s mighty anthem is in an arrangement for solo cello and strings by Tom Hodge. Sheku Kanneh-Mason recorded it at Abbey Road and gave a first live whirl at the Bafta awards.
We think it might catch on.
Apparently there has been no research conducted on university lecturers with autism.
My research aims to give a voice to academics who identify as autistic, Asperger’s or on the autism spectrum. It focuses on autistic academics’ experiences of research, teaching and being an employee in higher education. Men and women of all ages have already contributed – and they have expertise in fields as varied as sociology, genetics, mathematics and politics.
Check the survey here.
This is not an alternative fact.
Patrick Park, a businessman friend of Donald J Trump, has seen The Sound of Music 75 times.
He has been told by the president that he’s to be the next US ambassador to Austria.
‘I’m flying to Vienna to check out the embassy, and then I’m going to Salzburg to see if the Von Trapp house is for rent,’ Park said. ‘And then I’m going to learn to like schnitzel and sachertorte.’
photo: PalmBeach Daily News
The German tenor has pulled out of tonight’s Richard Strauss concert with bronchitis.
He has not been replaced. The concert is off. Here’s what the Barbican website says:
Jonas deeply regrets that because he has bronchitis this concert is cancelled. In due course we hope to reschedule this concert to a future date.
Ticketholders will receive a full refund to the original payment method by returning their tickets…
Intended programme:
Korngold Schauspiel Overture
Strauss Symphonic Interlude from Intermezzo, Träumerei am Kamin
Strauss
‘Ruhe meine Seele’
‘Freundliche Vision’
‘Befreit’
‘Heimliche Aufforderung’
Elgar In the South
Strauss Four Last Songs
Jonas Kaufmann tenor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jochen Rieder conductor
Soon after (Sasha) Cooke and soprano Angela Meade began their “Recordare” duet, Cooke seemed to cough, and she left a hand on her chest. A few moments later, she stepped hurriedly toward the wings, vomiting before getting there. I include that detail only to illustrate how notable it was when she returned to the stage moments later— conductor Patrick Summers and company had continued undaunted — and finished the duet.
Cooke left again, amid the audience’s applause, to compose herself during the next sections, which didn’t involve her. Then she returned to intone the lamenting melody that opens the “Lacrimosa.” She treaded lightly, but the performance was able to go on — though she later had to make another brief exit. What a heartening example of artistic grace under pressure.
More here.
image: Library of Congress, 1916
The Boston Symphony won the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance last night.
The winning entry was DG’s ‘Shostakovich Under Stalin’s Shadow’ – symphonies 5, 8, and 9, conducted by music director Andris Nelsons. Its 2016 winner was Shostakovich 10.
Best opera and best engineered classical album went to Los Angeles Opera’s Corigliano: The Ghost of Versailles.
Best instrumental solo album and best contemporary release was Zuill Bailey’s performance of Michael Daugherty’s Tales of Hemingway. Ian Bostridge’s Shakespeare songs won solo vocal.
Classical producer of the year was David Frost.
Yo Yo Ma’s ensemble won best world music album.
Classical Grammys are insignificant adjuncts to the awards show. They are announced ahead of the main event, getting no screen time at all.
We pointed out on Saturday that the New York Times had used a picture of the Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov when reporting the death of the Swedish tenor Nicola Gedda.
Bass, tenor, what’s the difference?
The Times has now appended this message at the foot of the online article:
Correction: February 11, 2017
A photograph was published in error with an earlier version of this obituary. It showed the Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, not Mr. Gedda.
so who’s who?
Among other notices, the Guardian, always up to the minute, published an obituary of Gedda by the record critic Alan Blyth, who died ten years ago.
Scott Cantrell lists the season’s guest conductors from whom the Dallas Symphony will pick a successor to the departing Jaap van Zweden.
There’s only one American in the frame.
The smart money’s on one of the two Spaniards, Pablo Heras-Casado and Gustavo Gimeno.
