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
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Nicholas Collon conducts Väinö Raitio’s Vesipatsas, West Side Story, La valse, and Jonas Silinskas plays Mieczysław Weinberg’s Trumpet Concerto. Live YLA Areena webcast.
Väinö Raitio (1891-1945) Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Concert Hall, Helsinki Music Centre, Mannerheimintie 13 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland Vesipatsas (1929; 'Waterspout') is a witty, colourful, suggestive and exotic ballet-score that passes twenty minutes very agreeably -...
Elbphilharmonie publishes its 2023/24 concert season.
Top-class programme with numerous stars and a few surprises. Subscriptions available now. Hamburg, 23 May 2023: On Tuesday, the Elbphilharmonie presented its programme for the 2023/24 season. Once again this season, some of the biggest names of the classical...
Lorin Maazel rehearses Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony; New York Philharmonic; undated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDwbBPmgc8 Ten-minute film.
Many Happy Returns to Jess Gillam, 25 today.
Many Happy Returns to Paul McCreesh, 63 today.
Many Happy Returns to Bob Dylan, 82 today.
I have distractions today, Tuesday May 23, that will keep me away from the Column; it could be said that I am not much here or even ‘all there’ – but you probably worked that out a long time ago.
New York Philharmonic Gives US Premiere of Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto.
New York Philharmonic Gives US Premiere of Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto From top: Chick Corea (photo: Toshi Sakurai), Joseph Alessi (photo: Chris Lee) The New York Philharmonic gives the US Premiere of Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto, featuring...
Detroit Symphony Orchestra – Daníel Bjarnason conducts his own Blow bright & Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony, with Leila Josefowicz playing Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto. Live DSO webcast.
Saturday, May 20, 2023 Orchestra Hall, Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan Daníel Bjarnason opened the concert with his own Blow bright (2013, the title taken from a Philip Larkin poem), bubbly and tumultuous, rhythmically...