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And speaking of records here is a vinyl-eye view via this week’s recommended Tumblr, the always eye-catching Kateoplis.
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Vinyl and design fans know about the adventurous covers that accompanied 1950s and 60s recordings from the American classical music label Westminster Records, but lately I’ve been seeing uncredited postings of quite a few of them here on Tumblr. [Perhaps the new content attribution feature will take care of that.] The very best of these modernist record jackets, including the one pictured above, were created by the unjustly overlooked American designer Rudolph de Harak.

This week’s From the Top show was taped in Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops in Boston, MA on Tuesday June 8, 2010. We asked our performers to tell us about the music they performed on the show: Umi Garrett, 9, piano III. Allegro Assai from Piano Concerto No. 23, in A Major, K. 488 By: [...]
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I have to confess that the annual orgy of complaints about the BBC Proms always strikes this American transplant as absurd and hard to comprehend. Say what you will, it is an extraordinary international feast of great music played by the world’s greatest orchestras, and one that, thanks to the unique symbiosis between the performing [...]
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"Проект посвящен исследованию эстетических и эмоциональных переживаний, возникающих во время авиаперелета. Пассажир занимает свое место в салоне самолета, зритель усаживается в кресло перед просмотром фильма или спектакля. Обоим приходится выключить мобильные телефоны в интересах собственной безопасности.

The great man is 80 today. And he'll be back, weaving those dreams, at the London Jazz Festival. (Barbican, Nov 20th)
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понедельник, 6 сентября 2010 года, 09.26Дмитрий Курляндский: «Секрет Моцарта в том, что он был обманщиком...»Авангардный композитор о композиторе-классике — Вольфганге Амадее МоцартеЦикл бесед с композиторами, рассуждающими о жизни и творчестве предшественников, продолжается.

New operas seem to be in the air, especially in smaller opera companies. All are coming to fruition whilst going through testing performances and workshops. Next month English Touring Opera kicks off its Autumn tour which includes the premiere of Promised End, Alexander Goehr's opera based on King Lear. The company workshopped the piece at Dartington early this year.And Opera Circus have started a project called Naciketa, this is a work in progress and will lead to an opera by Nigel Osborne and Ariel Dorfman.

Sightings today-Above, photo Tim Dickeson-On Peter Bacon's blog, a nice review of Live at the Wardrobe-In the Guardian's weekly music podcast where someone comes up with the idea of a Mercury Prize for Jazz. Dig it.-Tonight at the awards ( GOOD LUCK!) on BBC2 (all the best)-As the rank outsider in the betting at 50/1Later-On Saturday night at 8 30pm in Hall Two at Kings Place as part of the extraordinary 100-event Kings Place Festival-Afterwards, allegedly!-Any more???
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Гоголь Fest в этом году явно удается. Сам факт того, что прозвучала "Симфония Гудков" Авраамова, пусть и в таком себе "камерном" формате, не может не вдохновить. И концерт современной камерной музыки был весьма неплох, не смогла испортить впечатления и скверно ведущая себя юная публика.