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Film and Music

February 3, 2011 Christian Hertzog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY4bL_bO8sA

Ready or not, here he comes

January 23, 2011 Christian Hertzog

A positive review by Dana Astmann of Richard Wilson’s opera, Aethelred the Unready, over at Parterre Box. It’s scheduled for a Symphony Space performance on Tuesday, Jan. 25.

Chamber Music Concert review Contemporary Classical

David Bruce: The Next Osvaldo Golijov?

January 23, 2011 Christian Hertzog

I had never heard of David Bruce until I was assigned to review a concert by Art of Elan, a local concert series affiliated with the San Diego Museum of…

Chamber Music Composers Concert review Contemporary Classical Criticism Orchestral

New music heard in San Diego recently

January 19, 2011 Christian Hertzog

They’ve been piling up, my reviews at sandiego.com, to be passed on to you here. Lots of good music heard the past three months: San Diego Symphony plays Remembering Gatsby…

Composers Concert review Conductors Contemporary Classical New York

New York Philharmonic performs Kraft by Magnus Lindberg

November 3, 2010 Christian Hertzog

Contemporary Classical

Critical Land Mines

October 31, 2010 Christian Hertzog

I recently attended the NEA Journalism Institute for Classical Music and Opera. For 10 days two dozen or so writers from Alaska to Florida convened at Columbia University to talk…

Broadcast Concerts Contemporary Classical Orchestral Piano

Holloway, Dove, and the Exploding Piano

September 13, 2010 Christian Hertzog

Two more pieces of recommended listening from the BBC Proms concerts: Robin Holloway’s Reliquary transforms Schumann’s, er, problematic Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart into a genuinely beautiful, affecting work. It’s…

Broadcast Chamber Music Concerts Contemporary Classical Orchestral

Martin Matalon at the BBC Proms and NOISE in Chihuahua, Mexico

September 8, 2010 Christian Hertzog

Perhaps I missed it if Rodney Lister posted about this, but fun spectral work, Lignes de fuite by Martin Matalon, heard at the Proms last Thursday, Sept. 2. You have…

Chamber Music Concert review Contemporary Classical Criticism Post Modern Review Twentieth Century Composer

Bright Sheng and Anthony Newman premieres at La Jolla Summerfest

August 12, 2010 Christian Hertzog

Older readers may recall with fondness Edgar Bergen, a very popular American entertainer who poured his comic routines through ventriloquist dummies named Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. Edgar so loved…

Contemporary Classical

New Rouse string quartet at Summerfest; plus Lyon and Lang from the vaults

August 11, 2010 Christian Hertzog

I’m looking forward to the West Coast premiere of Christopher Rouse’s String Quartet no. 3 by the amazing Calder Quartet. The enthusiastic gentlemen in the Calder Quartet have worked closely…

Film and Music

Ready or not, here he comes

David Bruce: The Next Osvaldo Golijov?

New music heard in San Diego recently

New York Philharmonic performs Kraft by Magnus Lindberg

Critical Land Mines

Holloway, Dove, and the Exploding Piano

Martin Matalon at the BBC Proms and NOISE in Chihuahua, Mexico

Bright Sheng and Anthony Newman premieres at La Jolla Summerfest

New Rouse string quartet at Summerfest; plus Lyon and Lang from the vaults

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Author: Christian Hertzog

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