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Thank you!Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-46447968254586632302012-11-18T00:33:00.002-06:002012-11-18T02:19:59.899-06:00Catan's Il Postino on Itinerarios
Daniel Catan, March 2011
I first met Daniel Catan in 1982 when I was called on to play a new piece he had written, a pastorela, or Christmas play. I can't even recall the name, nor could Daniel when I mentioned it to him years later.
"Very nice piece," I told him, and it was. There was considerable craft, in the style on that day of Stravinsky.
"Oh, I don't write that way any more," Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-9665684112747546372012-11-01T14:48:00.002-05:002012-11-01T16:18:21.100-05:0030 Great Violinists
Janine Jansen and John Clare
This month, KPAC celebrates thirty years in broadcasting. Our hosts are having some fun sharing "30 lists" - artists, music, movies, and recordings you might enjoy and help shape the great sound of your classical oasis.
Kicking things off is Afternoon Host John Clare with 30 Great Violinists! (They are in no particular order, and were chosen keeping in mind the Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-13921891851453358672012-11-01T12:56:00.003-05:002012-11-01T12:56:59.097-05:00We're Baaaack !
courtesy of Wikipedia
With the change of the Seasons, longer nights, Halloween and Dias de los Muertos it's not surprising that this time of year as plenty of mystical associations.
On the Piano this Sunday, more music for this Spectral time with a Witches Sabbath, marauding trolls and magical collectors of the heroic dead.
Even Beethoven gets involved with his ideas of an operaYour Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-19100303710361963622012-10-31T08:33:00.000-05:002012-10-31T08:33:29.811-05:00Halloween premieresTwo great works had their world premiere on October 31st: in 1955, Alan Hovhaness' Symphony No. 2 ("Mysterious Mountain"), was played for the very first time by the Houston Symphony, Leopold Stokowski conducting;
and in 1970, George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children, in Washington, D.C. as part of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation's 14th Festival of Chamber Music.
Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-46286973707257353852012-10-26T15:31:00.000-05:002012-10-26T15:31:07.793-05:00Smaller Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio Thinks Big<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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On Friday October 26th the Chamber Orchestraof San Antonio opens its concert season. No, this is not a branch of the
venerable San Antonio Chamber Society nor an extension of the San Antonio
Symphony. Then, what is it? It is an extraordinary complement to both, Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-45533475498035678152012-10-25T10:56:00.001-05:002012-10-25T10:56:55.469-05:00Vivaldi’s Fanarce, A Revelation
Antonio Vivaldi and his titanic opera Fanarce, like George Frederich Handel and his many stage works are the product of a quiet revolution that has been taking Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-76598623434096507642012-10-24T23:48:00.001-05:002012-10-25T00:34:16.302-05:00Orquesta Tipica Sexteto de Diez
It would be well beyond facts to make the claim that every comedian is also inherently musical. However, I expect the exceptions would be a meager number when compared to those comedians who are, or in the case of comedians of yesterday, were endowed with significant musical abilities. Consider Steve Martin, today as much musician/banjo player as comedian. Even the recently departed Phyllis Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-19371558211043308472012-10-23T13:42:00.000-05:002012-10-23T13:42:29.786-05:00COSA begins
Carlos Izcaray, courtesy of the artist
The Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio begins Friday night at Pearl Stables with a concert called The Perennial Contest. Classical Spotlight host John Clare posed these questions from conductor Carlos Izcaray.
1. What sort of questions come to mind as you think of this program, “The Perennial Contest”?
This is a very interesting question, and quite a firstYour Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-23531274602236479902012-10-19T16:47:00.000-05:002012-10-19T16:47:10.249-05:00San Antonio International Piano Competition: LIVE!Use this link to watch the San Antonio International Piano Competition, live this weekend from the campus of Trinity University:
Watch live streaming video from saipc at livestream.com
Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-61521733719697127332012-10-15T12:14:00.001-05:002012-10-15T12:14:05.510-05:00Music MondayToday would have been the 107th birthday of composer Dag Wiren. He is not well known but wrote delightful music.
"Honest, straight to the point, balanced but uncompromising - such was the personality of the Swedish composer Dag Wirén. The same can be said of his music: it never tries to be anything but itself, it addresses the listener directly, it obeys unswervingly its own laws." - Jan Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-46244156225560018142012-10-12T10:18:00.001-05:002012-10-12T10:18:37.275-05:00Maria Padilla, a Surprise from Donizetti
In the years of furious and final creativity (between, about 1837-1843) Gaetano Donizetti would know great success and terrible tragedy. On the one hand he would experience the death of his parents; all three of his children Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-15982085092211893952012-10-09T10:04:00.001-05:002012-10-09T10:04:32.484-05:00Remembering Glenn Gould - again
When my wife got home I showed her the new book Remembering Glenn Gould by Colin Eatock and she remarked “Didn't you have every book about him already”? She had a point there, I thought I had every book and the fact that a new title would be published thirty years after his death and it would be anticipated is a bit...different.
Gould's recordings are still unique. His Bach is the easiestYour Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-5599197618149918672012-10-09T02:27:00.000-05:002012-10-09T03:01:14.844-05:00Chicago Symphony in Mexico
After a brief work stoppage a couple of weeks ago, as the musicians of the Chicago Symphony and their management resolved several hangnails in their contract negotiations, the CSO went right back to work, then on the road. Last week the orchestra was in residence at Carnegie Hall, in New York City. This week, they are in Mexico, the orchestra's first visit to the International Cervantino Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-23814401681961794742012-10-04T10:29:00.001-05:002012-10-04T10:33:42.724-05:00Wagner’s Meistersinger - A Human Comedy
courtesy Wikipedia
There is no end of debate about Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. It is simultaneously the most genial, most humane woolly bear of an opera Wagner would ever compose. On the other hand it's most admiring critics are quick to point out the opera’s internal double life: it is the most openly nationalistic, perhaps covertly anti-Semitic Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-37330544080667492842012-10-03T16:06:00.001-05:002012-10-03T16:06:39.800-05:00San Antonio Symphony and Musicians Union Reach Agreement
Guest conductor Roman Teber leads the San Antonio Symphony. Photo by Joey Palacios
By Joey Palacios
The San Antonio Symphony was one of many orchestras across the country to be in
contract negotiations, but now it's one of the few to come to finally
an agreement. Symphony Board Chair Dennert Ware said the collective
bargaining agreement will extend the length of the performance seasonYour Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-49424459273459710142012-09-27T10:15:00.003-05:002012-09-27T10:20:14.708-05:00A Genius flexes his new found strength In the winter of 1769 Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart set off by coach in the snow on an Italian Journey. Saying goodbye to the family, and luckily writing often, they were on a mission. As usual the goal was to make money and reaffirm contacts with the influential and the nobility (the prospect of work for the future). The significant part of this trip was to present the now mature musician to the Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-80961296393832616622012-09-24T11:26:00.000-05:002012-09-24T11:26:15.072-05:00Music Monday
Andrzej Panufnik,courtesy of Culture.pl
Today is the anniversary of Sir Andrzej Panufnik's birth. Born in Warsaw in 1914, Panufnik was a delightful composer and conductor, who spent part of his life in Poland, and later in England. Host John Clare describes his music as "grand simplicity" (tm) - which include ten symphonies; concerti for violin, piano, bassoon, and cello; three string Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-79273502147717471262012-09-20T10:57:00.002-05:002012-09-20T14:27:45.497-05:00 Opera Fever, Puccini’s Turandot
In his impassioned, prolific and sometimes desperate correspondence concerning his last opera Turandot, Giacomo Puccini gives us a glimpse into the unlikely creation of a masterwork and the challenges and rewards that are part of the end of life and the demands of art.
courtesy of Wikipedia
As he traveled from city to city to oversee the productions of his Il Trittico he had also begun toYour Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-60136568681460505612012-09-19T17:03:00.002-05:002012-09-19T17:03:53.816-05:00Classical Spotlight: Horn in Library
We normally have a french horn in the Music Library at KPAC, our very own James Baker is an accomplished player and practices here and there in the TPR studios. This week though, host John Clare had FOUR horns performing in the library, previewing their upcoming recital at Trinity University.
"I am soloing with the San Antonio Symphony this season, playing a Mozart Concerto, and I wanted to Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-10234299718175402602012-09-19T10:06:00.002-05:002012-09-19T10:06:37.125-05:00Piano recital
Auguste Antonov,courtesy of the artist
Auguste
Antonov performs at UIW’s Our Lady’s Chapel at 7pm, Thursday September 20th. Open to the public, the
recital includes Joshua de Bonilla- Upon the Water; Gregory Hutter- The
Melancholy Rags, book 1; Carter Pann- Upstate Rag; Carter Pann- Soiree Macabre;
Matthew Saunders- Piano Sonata; and Matthew Saunders- Starry Wanderers, Earthly
Hope & Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-48285179292124691392012-09-17T14:18:00.000-05:002012-09-17T14:18:06.602-05:00Music MondayToday is the anniversary of Charles Griffes' birthday, born in 1884. He is an important figure in American music, even though he is not very well known. Griffes wrote amazing vocal music and has a few orchestra pieces performed occasionally - one our favorites highlights the flute:
Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-6116968945441807772012-09-16T21:10:00.000-05:002012-09-16T21:10:32.031-05:00Eduardo Mata y Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Mexican conductor and composer Eduardo Mata (center), flanked by members of the Cuarteto Latinoamericano. This was the core of one of Mata's final projects, the ensemble Solistas de Mexico. The quartet was augmented by a group of instrumentalists hand picked by Maestro Mata. Solistas de Mexico went on to make numerous appearances at the Festival Internacional de Cervantino and two tours of Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-21351298039891759392012-09-14T03:50:00.000-05:002012-09-14T03:54:10.166-05:00Der Rosenkavalier - Fond MemoriesNot to steal the show from my long time friend and colleague Ron Moore, but I thought I would take just a moment to reflect on my earliest experiences with Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. It must have been either 1968 or '9; I was just a greenhorn music student, a horn player, at the University of Texas at Austin. Walter Ducloux had just come in to take over the UT Opera. The truth is, he Your Classical Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823992957330120336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314216248439865841.post-18689252700692967582012-09-13T10:59:00.001-05:002012-09-13T11:36:08.791-05:00Der Rosenkavalier - magic at last!
courtesy of Wikipedia
Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier defies many clichés, but its operatic magic prevails against all logic. Such as, "Classical twentieth century music can never be really popular; opera is dead; how can something really be funny in another language” and most importantly, "Too many cooks spoil the broth”. Well, depends on who’s cooking.
courtesy of Wikipedia
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