tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33737749662433260092024-03-29T04:03:00.005-07:00Northwest ReverbNorthwest Reverb - Reflections by James Bash and others about classical music in the Pacific Northwest and beyond - not written by A.I.James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.comBlogger6480125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-55926808285101767262024-03-29T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-29T00:30:00.163-07:00Today's BirthdaysHenri Lutz (1864-1928)
Rosina Lhévinne (1880-1976)
Sir William Walton (1902-1983)
E Power Biggs (1906-1977)
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)
Guher Pekinel (1953)
Suher Pekinel (1953)
and
Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913-2000)
Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005)
Judith Guest (1936)
And from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1871, Royal Albert Hall is formally opened in London by Queen Victoria.James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-27680078501811387112024-03-28T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-28T00:30:00.133-07:00Today's BirthdaysJoseph Weigl (1766-1846)
Willem Mengelberg (1871-1951)
Paul Whiteman (1890-1967)
Rudolf Serkin (1903-1991)
Jacob Avshalomov (1919-2013)
Robert Ashley (1930-2014)
Martin Neary (1940)
Samuel Ramey (1942)
Richard Stilgoe (1942)
and
Raphael (1483-1520)
Nelson Algren (1909-1981)
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936)
Russell Banks (1940-2023)
Iris Chang (1968-2004)
Lauren Weisberger (1977)
And from the James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-58432358516032015922024-03-27T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-27T00:30:00.139-07:00Today's BirthdaysVincent d'Indy (1851-1931)
Patty Smith Hill (1868-1946)
Ferde Grofé (1892-1972)
Anne Ziegler (1910-2003)
Sarah Vaughn (1924-1990)
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007)
Paul Ruders (1949)
Maria Ewing (1950)
Bernard Labadie (1963)
and
Henri Murger (1822-1861)
Heinrich Mann (1871-1950)
Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
Budd Schulberg (1914-2009)
Louis Simpson (1923-2012)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-73624978288007076212024-03-26T00:50:00.000-07:002024-03-26T00:50:41.602-07:00Today's BirthdaysJosef Slavík (1806-1833)
Wilhelm Backhaus (1884-1969)
André Cluytens (1905-1967)
Harry Rabinowitz (1916-2016)
Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)
Kyung Wha Chung (1948)
and
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898)
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987)
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
Gregory Corso (1930-2001)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-54552116382965118742024-03-25T15:01:00.000-07:002024-03-25T15:01:28.768-07:00Dead World Theory Multimedia Project I'll be reviewing this project on Saturday night.Lorin Wilkersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14964969679770591434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-1447959835649790132024-03-25T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-25T00:30:00.262-07:00Today's BirthdaysJohann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783)
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Haydn Wood (1882-1959)
Magda Olivero (1910-2014)
Julia Perry (1924-1979)
Cecil Taylor (1929-2018)
Sir Elton John (1947)
and
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Gloria Steinem (1934)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1949, Shostakovich (accompanied by KGB "handlers") arrives in New York for his first James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-33504860222822495552024-03-24T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-24T00:30:00.127-07:00Today's BirthdaysJohn Antes (1740-1811)
Maria Malibran (1808-1836)
Fanny Crosby (1820-1915)
Byron Janis (1928-2024)
Christiane Eda-Pierre (1932-2020)
Benjamin Luxon (1937)
and
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)
Dario Fo (1926-2016)
Ian Hamilton (1938-2001)
Martin Walser (1927-2024)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1721, J.S. Bach James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-74116031905191258312024-03-23T07:25:00.000-07:002024-03-23T07:25:20.079-07:00Review: Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio - Beethoven Mini-Fest - in Oregon ArtsWatch My review of the performance by the Chien-Kim+Watkins Trio of Beethoven's nine piano trios has been published in Oregon ArtsWatch here.James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-79004119930714938802024-03-23T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-23T00:30:00.131-07:00Today's BirthdaysLéon Minkus (1826-1917)
Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)
Franz Schreker (1878-1934)
Josef Locke (1917-1999)
Norman Bailey (1933-2021)
Boris Tishchenko (1939-2010)
Michael Nyman (1944)
David Grisman (1945)
and
Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958)
Louis Adamic (1898-1951)
Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952)
Gary Joseph Whitehead (1965)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-64065395812543959912024-03-22T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-22T00:30:00.240-07:00Today's BirthdaysCarl Rosa (1842-1889)
Hamisch MacCunn (1868-1916)
Joseph Samson (1888-1957)
Martha Mödl (1912-2001)
Fanny Waterman (1920-2020)
Arthur Grumiaux (1921-1986)
Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)
Joseph Schwantner (1943)
George Benson (1943)
Alan Opie (1945)
Rivka Golani (1946)
Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948
Edmund Barham (1950-2008)
and
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
Louis L'Amour (1908-1988)
Edith Grossman (James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-22269809192934436902024-03-21T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-21T00:30:00.244-07:00Today's BirthdaysJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Modeste Moussorgsky (1839-1881)
Eddie James "Son" House (1902-1988)
Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949)
Paul Tortelier (1914-1990)
Nigel Rogers (1935-2022)
Owain Arwel Hughes (1942)
Elena Firsova (1950)
Ann MacKay (1956)
and
Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)
Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998)
Ved Mehta (1934-2021)
From the New Music Box:
On March 21, 1771, the Massachusetts James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-41571911790605314082024-03-20T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-20T00:30:00.133-07:00Today's BirthdaysBeniamino Gigli (1890-1957)
Lauritz Melchoir (1890-1973)
Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997)
Dame Vera Lynn (1917-2020)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970)
Marian McPartland (1918-2013)
Henry Mollicone (1946-2022)
and
Ovid (43 BC - AD 17)
Ned Buntline (1823-1886)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1928, the New York Symphony and theJames Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-79163447912309862922024-03-19T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-19T00:30:00.238-07:00Today's BirthdaysFrancesco Gasparini (1661-1727)
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)
Nancy Evans (1915-2000)
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)
Myung-Wha Chung (1944)
Carolyn Watkinson (1949)
Mathew Rosenblum (1954)
and
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852)
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
Philip Roth (1933-2018)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-85011307408300758572024-03-18T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-18T00:30:00.132-07:00Today's BirthdaysJohann Christoph Vogel (1756-1788)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Paul Le Flem (1881-1984)
Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973)
Willem van Hoogstraten (1884-1965)
John Kirkpatrick (1905-1991)
Nobuko Imai (1943)
James Conlon (1950)
Jan-Hendrik Rootering (1950)
Courtney Pine (1964)
and
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Manly Hall (1901-1990)
George Plimpton (1927-2003)
James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-53731413687860229862024-03-17T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-17T00:30:00.145-07:00Today's BirthdaysÉlisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
Manuel García II (1805-1906)
Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Giuseppe Borgatti (1871-1950)
Brian Boydell (1917-2000)
Nat "King" Cole (1917-1965)
John LaMontaine (1920-2013)
Stephen Dodgson (1924-2013)
Betty Allen (1927-2009)
Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993)
John Lill (1944)
Michael Finnissy (1946)
Patrick Burgan (1960)
and
Edmund Kean (1787-1833)
Frank B. James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-17850355170936928452024-03-16T18:04:00.000-07:002024-03-16T18:06:50.230-07:00Review: Ehnes, Heyward, and the organ shine with the Oregon SymphonyJames Ehnes in rehearsal with the Oregon Symphony under Jonathon HeywardThe Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall has benefited a lot from the acoustical upgrade that was done in the fall of 2020 (see my article in The Oregonian), but if there were still some lingering doubts about the improved sound, they were laid to rest when the organ came in at full blast in the final movement of Saint-Saëns’s “James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-89628366290443189922024-03-16T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-16T00:30:00.130-07:00Today's BirthdaysEnrico Tamberlik (1820-1889)
Henny Youngman (1906-1998)
Christa Ludwig (1928-2021)
Sir Roger Norrington (1934)
Teresa Berganza (1935-2022)
David Del Tredici (1937-2023)
Claus Peter Flor (1953)
and
James Madison (1751-1836)
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
César Vallejo (1892-1938)
Sid Fleischman (1920-2010)
Alice Hoffman (1952)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-49234907676129434862024-03-15T20:53:00.000-07:002024-03-15T20:55:18.108-07:00Deanna Tham advances in La Maestra competition According to this posting on Facebook from the La Maestra competition (in Paris). Oregon Symphony Associate Conductor Deanna Tham has made it past the initial round (of 14 candidates) to the semi-finals - seven finalists. Yay!James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-89653343288709613332024-03-15T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-15T00:30:00.129-07:00Today's BirthdaysCharles Dibdin (1745-1814)
Eduard Strauss (1835-1916)
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Colin McPhee (1900-1964)
Lightnin' Hopkins (1912-1982)
Ben Johnston (1926-2019)
Nicolas Flagello (1928-1994)
Jean Rudolphe Kars (1947)
Isabel Buchanan (1954))
and
Richard Ellmann (1918-1987)
Ben Okri (1959)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1985, Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, age 22, makes his James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-18944631506204655532024-03-14T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-14T00:30:00.139-07:00Today's BirthdaysGeorg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756)
Pierre-Louis Couperin (1755-1789)
Johann Strauss Sr. (1804-1849)
Lawrance Collingwood (1887-1982)
Witold Rudziński (1913-2004)
Quincy Jones (1933)
Phillip Joll (1954)
and
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Sylvia Beach (1887-1962)
Max Shulman (1919-1988)
Diane Arbus (1923-1971)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-79085750693168314342024-03-13T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-13T00:30:00.133-07:00Today's BirthdaysHugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Alec Rowley (1892-1958)
Irène Joachim (1913-2001)
Jane Rhodes (1929-2011)
Alberto Ponce (1935-2019)
Lionel Friend (1945)
Julia Migenes (1949)
Wolfgang Rihm (1952)
Anthony Powers (1953)
Moses Hogan (1957-2003)
Terence Blanchard (1962)
and
Janet Flanner (1892-1978)
George Seferis (1900-1971)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-61749844886210503232024-03-12T11:08:00.000-07:002024-03-12T11:08:22.565-07:00Preview of Portland Opera's The Snowy Day in The Oregonian I've written a preview of this inventive opera production of a beloved children's book. You can read it in Oregonlive here. It will appear in print edition of The Oregonian this Friday.James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-20961424655986066132024-03-12T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-12T00:30:00.132-07:00Today's BirthdaysThomas Arne (1710-1778)
Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Hans Knappertsbusch (1888-1965)
Ralph Shapey (1921-2002)
Norbert Brainin (1923-2005)
Philip Jones (1928-2000)
Helga Pilarczyk (1935-2011)
Liza Minnelli (1946)
James Taylor (1948)
and
George Berkeley (1685-1753)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916)
Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Edward Albee (1928-2016)
Virginia James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-33474433801232528802024-03-11T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-11T00:30:00.131-07:00Today's BirthdaysCarl Ruggles (1876-1971)
Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
Xavier Montsalvage (1912-2002)
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Sarah Walker (1943)
Tristan Murail (1947)
Bobby McFerrin (1950)
Katia Labèque (1950)
and
Torquato Tasso (1544-1495)
Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983)
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-32059399330448470832024-03-10T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-10T00:30:00.125-08:00Today's BirthdaysLorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838)
Dudley Buck (1839-1909)
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Arthur Honnegger (1892-1955)
Dame Eva Turner (1892-1990)
Bix Biederbecke (1903-1931)
Sir Charles Groves (1915-1992)
William Blezard (1921-2003)
Andrew Parrott (1947)
Stephen Oliver (1950-1992)
and
Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933)
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
Heywood Hale Broun (1918-2001)
David Rabe (1940)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0