Location: Willow Springs, in the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (map) Date: May 30, 2009. 7:45AM Time: 2:16:19 Distance: 16 miles, give or take Number of other people seen: 15 (2 runners, 8 hikers, 5 dog-walkers) Number of deer: 4 Height of mud splatters: Up to the knee Number of times “I’m completely f*&$^& [...]
Somewhere far down the demented scale of musical parodies, following Glenn Gould’s radio broadcasts into the unfiltered recesses of the musician (trumpet-playing version) mind, are the videos of Mark Gould (no relation [that I know of]). Formerly a co-principal trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and whose solo disc Cafe 1930 you should have, has [...]
Few sights warm the heart of a native Midwesterner on a solitary walk far from home more than that of a bunch of kids playing Little League baseball. One dad hitting grounders to the infield, a smaller group off in left field playing pepper, a couple other grown-ups on hand to hit pop flies and [...]
Eighth blackbird plays University of Chicago student composers’ music on May 28 (FREE). The concert is in Roosevelt University’s downtown Ganz Hall, because if people are too tired or unwilling to go to the South Side and Hyde Park, at least they can get lost trying to find Ganz Hall in the elevators and winding [...]
After a week in New York catching up with friends, going to concerts (yay, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jonathan Nott, the Bamberg Symphony; St. Vincent; the Berlin Staatskapelle and Daniel Barenboim; and the International Contemporary Ensemble and Corey Dargel), museums (yay, Met; Frick Collection; Morgan Library; and Neue Galerie), and walking all over Central and Prospect Parks, [...]
In the stores today is the newest CSO Resound album: Poulenc’s Gloria with soprano Jessica Rivera, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, and Bernard Haitink. Ravel’s complete Daphnis and Chloe is also there, with everyone except for Rivera. A free download of the final Danse generale is below; enjoy, and tell your friends. CSO Resound is also [...]
Someone with a .co.uk address found this site after Googling “Richard Taruskin Twitter.” Is there any writer astride the Earth today, in any field, less suited to the 140-character limits of Tweets than the author of the 4,080-page Oxford History of Western Music? Richard Powers? Peter Matthiessen? A little math…if each of those 4,080 pages has [...]
Maybe it’s not a movement, or one I have only incomplete access to and knowledge of, but if you take a closer look at Per Petterson’s 2005 novel Out Stealing Horses, and Kelly Reichardt’s 2008 film Wendy and Lucy (now on DVD), it seems as if there’s a coherent style in both of them. It’s [...]
“Well, the beliefs that one most cherishes one is least willing to test. I do not go in at that open door. But lingering, but reluctant, is my tread as I pass by it; and I pause to bathe in the light [from the open door] that is as the span of our human life, [...]
“Babes in arms will not be admitted for concerts at Symphony Center.”—text from the back of Symphony Center concert ticket “Babes in arms”? Are we onboard the Titanic? Babes in Arms was actually a Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hart that opened in 1937, and gave us “My Funny Valentine.” If you go here, you [...]