Northwest Reverb

Northwest Reverb - Reflections by James Bash and others about classical music in the Pacific Northwest and beyond - not written by A.I.

Friday, February 29, 2008

Today's Birthdays

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Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) Jimmy Dorsey (1904-1957) Reri Grist (1932)

Bach's face - without a wig

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The BBC reports that "The face of Johann Sebastian Bach has been recreated by experts at Dundee University more than 250 years after th...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Today's Birthdays

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Geraldine Farrar(1882-1967) George Malcolm (1917-1997) Joseph Rouleau (1929) Osmo Vänskä (1953) Markus Stenz (1965) and Michel de Montaigne ...

Ron Blessinger reflects on the Portland music scene

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Catch Ron's most recent thoughts on the music scene in Portland on the Third Angle blog . Ron recently taped a segment on this top for O...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Today's Birthdays

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Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918) Lotte Lehmann (1888-1976) Marian Anderson (1897-1993) Elizabeth Welch (1904-2003) Mirella Freni (1935) Gidon Kr...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Today's Birthdays

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Frank Bridge (1879-1941) Lazar Berman (1930-2005) David Thomas (1943) Emma Kirkby (1949) and Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (1928...
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Seattle Symphony looking to resolve quartertime concertmaster setup

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Melinda Bargreen in the Seattle Times reports that the unusual concertmaster arrangement for the Seattle Symphony violates the orchestra...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Today's Birthdays

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Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) Dame Myra Hess (1890-1965) Victor Silvester (1900-1978) Davide Wilde (1935) Jesús López-Cobos (1940) Denis O'N...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Daltirus, Porretta, and Grimsley team up to knock Seattle Opera’s Tosca out of the park

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Seattle Opera lined up three strong singers for the principal roles on the opening night of “Tosca,” and each artist responded with career-e...

Today's Birthdays

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Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940) Michel Legrand (1932) Renato Scotto (1934) Jiří Bělohlávek (...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Singing in Vancouver

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This morning the Portland Symphonic Choir sang a 20-25 concert as part of the ACDA convention in Vancouver. It was fun to sing for an audien...

Today's Birthdays

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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952) Albert Sammons (1886-1957) Martindale Sidwell (1916-1998) and Samuel Pepys ...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in search of a new CEO

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Cincinnati is looking for a new person to boost ticket sales, upgrade symphony hall, and put new life into the endowment. It's a tough j...

Today's Birthdays

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York Bowen (1884-1961) Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890-1963) George Zukerman (1927) Steven Lubin (1942) Lucy Shelton (1954) Lowell Liebermann (1961...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Music helps stroke patients to recover more quickly

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This is an interesting report on a study completed recently in Finland. Here are a couple of summary paragraphs from newsreports: Listening ...

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Today's Birthdays

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Carl Czerny (1791-1857) Leo Delibes (1836-1891) Charles Marie Widor (1844-1945) Kenneth Alford (1881-1945) Nina Simone (1933-2003) Elean Dur...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Oregon Symphony goes into overdrive: Copland, Barber, Bizet, and Liszt

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The Oregon Symphony performed a long and varied program that covered a lot of territory on Sunday evening. The concert featured works by Aar...

Today's Birthdays

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Mary Garden (1874-1967) Ruth Gipps (1921-1999) Christoph Eschenbach (1940) Barry Wordsworth (1948) Riccardo Chailly (1953)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Guest review of Portland Baroque's Bach Cantata concert

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I couldn't attend last weekend's Portland Baroque Concert so I asked Lorin Wilkerson, a singing colleague and writer for the Bach Ca...
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