I’m on the iphone, writing this post from inside a Los Angeles municipal courtroom. (No, Mom, I haven’t been arrested. Yet.)
In fact, I was called for jury duty, and they’ve been spending all day interviewing prospective jurors. They haven’t called me yet, but I... continued
Two of my very favorite artists converse in this very cool, very strange interview (begins around 2:15):
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Also from Medici.tv, Thomas Quasthoff and Helene Grimaud performing Hör ich das Liedchen klinge from Schumann’s Dichterliebe.
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Perfection.
What can I say? I’m a big sucker for fast, flashy virtuosic stuff… Truly in awe at the seemingly impossible things human beings can achieve:
BTW, this video comes from the very cool Medici site. Check it out if you get the chance – it’s an incredible resource for classical music performances.
I have given a name to my joy, and that name is ‘Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds With Sea Salt & Turbinado Sugar.’ Seriously, I cannot stop eating these things:
Do any of you out there have a food vice? Specifically, a chocolate food vice? I’m not kidding – I’m salivating just looking a this picture.
Well, it only took 13 years…
Finally, finally, the solo soprano/piano/violin version of these pieces will be in print. They’ll be available from Chester Music in Europe and the rest of the world this summer. (I think... continued
One of my all-time favorite photos: poet Charles Anthony Silvestri and I embracing after a performance of Sleep.
Here’s Cloudburst, with the combined forces of VocalEssence, the St. Olaf Choir, and the fantastic Minnesota High School Honor Choir. Nearly four hundred singers in total. Not sure I’ll ever be able to conduct this piece again with fewer than three hundred people. ;-)
As always, make sure you hit the HQ button (
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Nox Aurumque (Night and Gold) is the piece that just received its premiere in Minneapolis last month. As the name implies, it is sort of a ‘companion’ piece to Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold).
In writing it, I wanted to echo some of the musical material in Lux... continued
I recently discovered The Frontal Cortex (via my other new favorite web app, StumbleUpon), an incredibly eloquent and interesting blog by the brilliant (and young) author Jonah Lehrer. For any of you science/social economics geeks out there, I highly recommend taking a look.
I’ll post more on this concert as soon as they send me more photos (and recordings), but in the meantime, here is a picture of me, my wife Hila, and California Lutheran University‘s excellent conductor Dr.... continued
I’ve been invited to conduct the 2010 Christmas Concert with the Rundfunkchor Berlin (Berlin Radio Chorus). I can’t even begin to describe how excited and honored I am to be working with this legendary group.
The annual performance is in the spectacular
