Ramblings Archives - Colin's Column

A change at the Oakland Symphony tomorrow, Friday the Twentieth … no Tippett, Elgar instead.

May 19, 2022 | News, Ramblings, Videos

Noting that Leonard Slatkin was due to conduct Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (a WWII masterpiece) at this Oakland concert, https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/event/season-finale-leonard-slatkin/, I was hoping for a webcast (if Rhode Island can do one,...

Many Happy Returns to my friend Henry! Some cello for you H: Gabriel Fauré’s Après un rêve (1878) played by Matt Haimovitz with Mari Kodama.

May 14, 2022 | Ramblings, Videos

Leonard Slatkin conducts Beethoven 9 in Rhode Island [live webcast].

May 8, 2022 | Ramblings

This is a Ramble, not a Concert Review (well, it’s a bit of one, with wacky elements). Having been away for a couple of days, inevitably the email queue was quite long (I am still catching up), but one was unexpected, details of this Rhode Island Philharmonic...

Colin and Column now reunited. General Rejoicing.

May 7, 2022 | Ramblings, Videos

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite II; Orchestre national de France/Cristian Măcelaru; September 10, 2021; Paris. Colin’s Column will be unmanned for a couple of days, as planned, but it will soon be active...

Colin’s Column will be unmanned for a couple of days, as planned, but it will soon be active again.

May 5, 2022 | Ramblings

Just now on Good Morning Britain (ITV): a dreadful interview with the PM due to Susanna Reid constantly interrupting him; the interview became all about her, not Boris, to whom sympathy, as he was given no room to speak, although he had nothing new to say anyway. A complete waste of time.

May 3, 2022 | Ramblings