Here’s a vintage recording of Gary Karr performing Paganini’s Moses Fantasy–a staple of his performing career. I know that Gary’s recording inspired me to learn this piece when I was in high school, and I’m sure that he did the same for...
New York Times tech journalist David Pogue is a recent Twitter fan, with several reservations: I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. Like the world needs ANOTHER ego-massaging, social-networking time drain? Between e-mail...
You have to have been living under a rock not to have heard about the YouTube Symphony project. This is likely to be the first of many online collaborative projects like this, and I can only think that it helps the world of classical music. London Symphony principal...
I’m taking advantage of a rare non-snowing day (and a balmy 30 degrees, no less!) to walk around and lament about winter. On a brighter note, I just got an awesome new Flip Mino video cam, which I’m using to shoot these snowy little clips.
National Symphony orchestra and Peabody Institute faculty member Jeff Weisner (also a collaborator here on this blog) will be performing with fellow Peabody faculty members on February 4, 2009 at 8 p.m. for the Adalman Artist Recital Series. Details are available...
