They must already have someone in mind. Seems like you wouldn't just let your current guy go unless you had another candidate.
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They must already have someone in mind. Seems like you wouldn't just let your current guy go unless you had another candidate.
I have had similar views, part of which I chalk up to the fact that he's churned out more repertoire than any conductor I can think of. I don't think even one of the Golden Age greats could have done decent Shostakovich, Bruckner, and Beethoven cycles concurrently with 3 orchestras. Overstretched.
IMO his weakness was that he was so overextended that some things could feel a bit superficial. But I found him a fine conductor, and the orchestra loved him and is evidently very upset.
I have no idea who they have in mind who they think would be better. Unless they want to bring Esa-Pekka back?
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Congratulations to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which managed to upstage the flaming dumpster fire that is the Kennedy Center in the collective mind of the classical music world this Friday by dismissing its very fine music director, Andris Nelsons. Can't wait to hear the back story.
If you're anywhere in the area, don't miss this! It's a great piece and I'm really looking forward to it.
I'll take Heartwarming Media Posts for $1000, Alex. Remember how everyone screamed when the New York Times turned its sports department into something called the Athletic? Well, the Athletic has just hired the cream of the Washington Post sports department, who were fired earlier this month.
Well, the Washington Post has just given an object lesson in THAT - it must be in the air. (And you have my commiseration. I had to cut the first 65 pages of my current book - years of work. But without that ballast, it started to fly.)
The poems are vignettes of events in his life, and so far have offered such beautiful insights into his youth. The image of the mistreated child weeping at the keyboard. A casual flirtation from his teen years (and the way our teen experiences are so important, but later forgotten).
The Beethoven book is a book of poems, and each is so rich I didn't want to race through them, so this is how I'm slowing it down.
There are still humane editors at the @washinpost.com, because someone let one of the journalists they'd fired reach out to readers one last time to announce her own newsletter for local news in the DMV. Sign up and support Alisa Tang's new venture; we need local news! alisadailydose.beehiiv.com
A wintry landscape with tree trunks and a small red fox: the cover of the book HAPPINESS l, by Aminatta Forna
Good morning! I'm reading HAPPINESS by Aminatta Forna and savoring BEETHOVEN VARIATIONS by Ruth Padel in the interstices. #BookSky #MondayReads
I love him too! The only silver lining to Ilia messing up is that he got a medal out of it.
And for my first birthday after we were married, he surprised me by bringing a string quartet into the house and playing a quartet he had written for me, and for Valentine's Day this year he's released a professional recording of it, and here it is on Spotify. open.spotify.com/track/52oRBp...
Our first proper date was at a Mets game. We went to the game and then went out to dinner and had lots to say but seemed to have no romantic spark at all, and then he walked me home and asked if he could hug me good night, and we forgot to stop hugging and have been together ever since. 1/2
A German Christmas card with the words "Frohes Fest" over a Santa and a Christmas tree -- which took two months to arrive.
In the mail today: a card from my friend in Germany -- dated December 10. Today is February 13. When people say the mail is slow these days, they aren't kidding.
I completely agree. I was immediately flashing back to Nathan Chen, who had similar layers of hype in 2018, and stumbled, and came back to win gold in 2022. It's just more of a shock because Malinin has seemed so assured. But what you say about the ice could definitely be a factor.
😢 Gosh I hope I didn't bring that on him. 🤪 (He skated it so beautifully in the team competition!)
Just in time for Valentine's Day: "Quartet for Anne," which my husband Greg Sandow wrote years ago as the best birthday present ever, is now streaming on Apple Music. music.apple.com/us/album/qua...
That is very cool. And the Washington National Opera commissioned that ending from him, so it's my home team, so to speak.
Well, ice-skating music has always specialized in "bleeding chunks" - back in the 1980s they might use 5-6 different pieces in one program. At least they changed the rules about that so people stuck to one or two.
Such a great review of "Wuthering Heights" - "a large dumb terrarium of sensation: a slick, sweaty, chest-beating, garment-rending, gloopy-albumen total eclipse of the heart." Dave White in SLUGGISH.
sluggish.ghost.io/wuthering-he...
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Look, the Washington Post is still doing journalism. Here's the inside story of how the Washington National Opera left the Kennedy Center. wapo.st/4arCIML
I would be willing to bet that someone at the Pentagon who issued this directive thought El Paso was in Mexico. And the FAA had to step in with a map.
One of Arthur Rackham's illustrations of Richard Wagner's opera "Siegfried," showing the young Siegfriedc clad in skins and partly bare-chested, raising his reforged sword aloft in triumph
I rest my case 🤣
Oh I'm SURE he could. Over his bear, even.
Blond-haired, blue-eyed American figure skater Ilia Malinin in the warrior costume he wears for his short program, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Wagner's Siegfried.
I used to focus on what classical music the #olympics figure skaters chose for their programs - but this year they appear to have entered Wagner's Siegfried himself in competition. (I kid, I kid. I know this is Ilia Malinin, the top American man. The visuals, though.)
Everybody watch the trailer for this important movie on sexual abuse, "Dear Lara," and hope that after its success at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, distributors will pick it up. Ask the young violinist who choked out a tearful Thank You in the Q&A. share.google/hBosgncNRAev...
Many @washingtonpost.com international reporters were laid off while working overseas and left to figure out for themselves how to get home. This fundraiser is for them and other former staffers who worked to help get the news out about what was happening in their countries. gofund.me/232347921