Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
Welcome to my Column, a bit of a blog: news, reviews, things to watch, and other posts to read; a mix of things. I hope you like the contents.
Cheers, Col
Powerful 15min film about early-onset dementia and the transformative power of music to be premiered today for World Alzheimer’s Day.
Manchester Camerata premieres powerful short film about early onset dementia following the launch of its pioneering music café for people living with dementia and at-home carers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iTLalcliecQ As part of its ongoing ‘Untold’ digital film...
Many Happy Returns to conductor Juanjo Mena, 56 today.
Debra Lew Harder Named Metropolitan Opera Radio Host, Only the Fifth in the Company’s History.
New York, NY (September 20, 2021)—The Metropolitan Opera announced today that it has appointed Debra Lew Harder as the new host of its radio broadcasts, the longest-running classical music program in American radio history, which began 90 years ago in 1931. Only the...
Sad news: composer Sylvano Bussotti has died at the age of 89.
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Stravinsky’s Firebird, Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Hartmann’s Concerto funebre [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/karl-400x250.jpg)
Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Stravinsky’s Firebird, Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Hartmann’s Concerto funebre [live webcast]
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-63) Saturday, September 18, 2021 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga With Kirill Petrenko, philosopher and humanist, at the helm, and Patricia Kopatchinskaja, free-spirit and explorer, this...
Víkingur Ólafsson records Mozart & Contemporaries for Deutsche Grammophon.
For eighty-four minutes Víkingur Ólafsson delights and dissertates as he shares music composed by composers contemporary to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, opening with an attractive Sonata movement by Galuppi, short and sweet, if put into the shade by WAM’s own F-major...
![The Orchestra Now (TŌN) – Leonard Slatkin conducts Circuits, the world premiere of his Brahmsiana, and Pictures at an Exhibition [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/lscindy-400x250.jpg)
The Orchestra Now (TŌN) – Leonard Slatkin conducts Circuits, the world premiere of his Brahmsiana, and Pictures at an Exhibition [live webcast]
Cindy McTee & Leonard Slatkin Saturday, September 18, 2021 Sosnoff Theater @ Bard College’s Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Leonard Slatkin has orchestrated seven of Brahms’s pieces, of piano, chamber or vocal provenance, as he outlines here:...
Alim Beisembayev wins Leeds International Piano Competition 2021.
Tonight [18 September], 23-year-old Alim Beisembayev from Kazakhstan won the 20th edition of the Leeds International Piano Competition, a triennial event which is widely regarded as among the most prestigious prizes in the musical world. In addition to...
![George Enescu Festival – Paavo Järvi conducts Mahler 3 [TV Romania live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/paavo-400x250.jpg)
George Enescu Festival – Paavo Järvi conducts Mahler 3 [TV Romania live webcast]
Saturday, September 18, 2021 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania On Wednesday night it was Mahler 3 at home; on this Saturday evening Paavo Järvi had been on his travels to Bucharest for the same work, his Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich musicians...