Nov 7, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Insights
NOVEMBER 2020: Recovery Edition, Election Day Special Linked to with the author’s...
Nov 2, 2020 | Insights, Unexpected
Helen Keller (1880-1968) With thanks to Eric Kisch for sending the article published below… Helen Keller wrote the following letter to the New York Symphony Orchestra in March 1924. Here’s how she describes listening to Beethoven’s “Ninth...
Oct 23, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Insights
Dalia Stasevska Thursday, October 22, 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 2 p.m. Guest Writer, Ateş Orga “The virtuosity of the orchestra … wiped out any reproach Englishmen may feel in the face of [visitors] from abroad” (The Times, 23 October 1930). Devised by two icons of radio...
Oct 4, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Insights, Videos
Guest Writer, Ateş Orga Twelve months ago I was in Zürich covering the inaugural concert of Paavo Järvi as Chief Conductor and Music Director of the venerable Tonhalle Orchestra. A responsive, world-class band under youthfully motivated management. Discerning...