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… has concerts this weekend and it’s my final set of the year. We do have another set scheduled, but it conflicts with Mary Poppins and I will be involved in that so I had to cancel out of the true final set.

Gregory Vajda is returning to conduct Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra and Brahms Symphony #2. I’ll be playing English horn and third oboe in the Bartok. I do love that work!

Saturday 8:00pm May 12, 2012
Sunday 2:30pm May 13, 2012

You can read about our concerts here.

I do apologize — I forgot to post this back in April so some concerts have already happened, but you can still catch a whole lot more!

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES FREE ONLINE CONCERT STREAMING OF BSO, BOSTON POPS, AND TANGLEWOOD PROGRAMS AT BSO.ORG/MEDIACENTER, BEGINNING WITH FINAL THREE BSO PROGRAMS OF 2011-12 SEASON

BSO LAUNCHES NEW STREAMING PLATFORM TOMORROW, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, WITH PROGRAM OF BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 1 AND MENDELSSOHN’S INCIDENTAL MUSIC TO A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, FEATURING VOCALISTS LAYLA CLAIRE AND KATE LINDSEY, WITH CLAIRE BLOOM AS NARRATOR, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF BERNARD HAITINK

Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 24, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will begin offering free online streaming of current BSO, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood concerts on the orchestra’s website at www.bso.org/mediacenter. In partnership with 99.5 Classical New England, a service of WGBH, the 128 kbps streams will be provided by WGBH’s live concert broadcasts and made available through the BSO Media Center the Monday or Tuesday after the program’s premiere at Symphony Hall (details about Tanglewood concert streaming will be announced at a later date). These concert streams will be available on bso.org/mediacenter for up to a year after the original performance, surpassing the usual industry standard of just a few weeks.

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Available Week of April 29: Maestro Haitink leads the BSO in Debussy’s Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K.482, with soloist Till Fellner in his BSO debut, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Pastoral. (April 26-28 program)

Available Week of May 6: Maestro Haitink leads the BSO in the final program of the orchestra’s 2011-12 season, featuring Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with soloists Jessica Rivera, Meredith Arwady, Roberto Saccá, and Günther Groissböck, with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. (May 3-5 program)

Sydne-Mychal Sullivan, oboe

The acclaimed principal oboist in the conservatory orchestra says she was named after professional basketball player Mychal Thompson because her mother — who grew up in Arkansas, where people go by their first and middle names — likes boys’ names for girls and unusual spellings.

Her recital includes Strauss’ Oboe Concerto, accompanied by the conservatory chamber orchestra, directed by San Francisco Symphony principal bassoonist Stephen Paulson. The concert also features pianist Xiyan Wang and bassoonist Kris King. [8 p.m. April 29]

Read here.

Gee, I have opera that day, but I just might be able to get up there for an evening recital. Time will tell! I played in an orchestra with bassoonist Kris King when we did The Gift of the Magi back in December, and I’ve read Ms. Sullivan’s blog. I’ve known Steve Paulson for … gee … I can’t even remember how long, and my brother studied bassoon with him many years ago.

… he’ll conduct while sitting down as they did in Bach’s time (1685-1750). Jaffe’s done it before.

“It’s more akin to a rhythm guitar with a chamber-music feel,” said Jaffe. “Like 18th-century jazz. It’s exhausting. But it’s really all about Tom playing oboe.”

Nugent, adjusting mentally to being in the spotlight, can relate. He calls his solo a “marathon.”

The University of the Pacific lecturer, who’s been a symphony member for six years, will hear Avner’s creation for the first time tonight. He’s been preoccupied preparing for his initial solo spot with the orchestra: during Johann Sebastian Bach’s Oboe Concerto in F major.

“It’s a very, very tiring piece to play,” Nugent, 53, said of the 22-minute concerto he’s performing for the first time. “It’s a tremendously demanding work. It’s like running a marathon. I’m really looking forward to it.”

RTWT

The concert is tonight and Saturday night. Unfortunately I can’t attend. Perhaps some of you can, though. I haven’t seen Tom in eons, and I would have loved to hear him play this!

Stockton Symphony website

I received an email about a free concert. I’m sorry to miss it, but I’ll be out of town. Perhaps some of you would be interested, though. Please let me know if you attend … I’d love to hear all about it!

MOZART YOUTH CAMERATA
FREE CONCERT

Mar 11, 2012
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Works by Brahms, Andriasox and Mozart

Pre-concert surprises at 4:30!

Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704

To sign up for a ticket or two go here.

Winds of France

February 12, 2012

4:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, France became the compositional epicenter of chamber music written for wind instruments. The timbrally colorful combination of the instruments proved irresistible for many of France’s most compelling musical voices. Join these virtuosic wind players from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as they explore this ravishing, and rarely heard, repertoire.

Maurice Emmanuel (1862–1938)
Sonata for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano, op. 11 (1907)

Yan Maresz (b. 1966)
Circumambulation for Flute (1993, rev. 1996)

Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
Wind Quintet (1948)

Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
Trois pièces brèves for Wind Quintet (1930)

Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Sextet for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (1932–1939)

Artists Alessio Bax, piano; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; David Shifrin, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; William Purvis, horn

Here is the link that takes you to the site and the place to order tickets.

Winds of France from Music@Menlo on Vimeo.

Cooper’s DMA Recital 2012

Click on that link above for the live streaming of his recital at 6:30 PST. How cool is that?! (Unfortunately I won’t be home, but if I can catch some of it on my iPhone I sure will!)

Break a leg, Cooper!

Featuring:
Cooper Wright, Oboe
Laura McIntyre – Bassoon
Drew Quiring – Piano/Harpsichord
Matthew Smith – Cello
Ashley Stahl – Flute
Allyson Wuenschel – Viola

Works by Loeffler, Telemann, Schumann, and Dutilleaux.

Contrary to one part of the article, I believe this concert is tonight, Monday, January 30. The church’s website has today’s date, as does the body of the article (which I’ve put in bold font just because I can).

Roger is a great player, and mighty nice guy too!

Mozart Birthday Concert
Mozart Birthday Concert at Edgehill United Methodist Church
When: Sun., Jan. 29, 7 p.m.
Pianist and Nashville Symphony English horn player Roger Wiesmeyer plays a lot of concerts, so we take notice when he calls the Mozart Birthday Benefit Concert at Edgehill United Methodist his favorite show of the year. The annual celebration, now in its 10th year, always draws a diverse crowd of activists and music lovers — founder and organizer Wiesmeyer calls it “an opportunity to marry the things that matter most to me: beautiful music and social justice.” Conductor Joseph Lee will lead a specially assembled orchestra Monday night in Mozart’s “Little” G-minor Symphony No. 25 and the “Gran Partita” Serenade for winds. Always exuberant Vanderbilt composer Michael Rose offers halftime commentary drawn from his recent book Audible Signs, and be sure to stay after the performance for cake and conversation. This year’s concert benefits Nashville Peacemakers, a youth outreach organization founded by Clemmie Greenlee, the Scene’s 2007 Nashvillian of the Year.
— Russell Johnston

I received this from the Janet Archibald. Hope some of you can make it (I’m working then, so can’t get there.)

Hi Everyone,
The days are getting shorter, the weather cooler and the holidays fast approaching, which means it’s also time for another Lowell Trio concert at the wonderful music club, Armando’s , 707 Marina Vista ave., in downtown Martinez!
Please join Janet Popesco Archibald, oboe & English Horn, Emil Miland, cello, & pianist Margaret Fondbertasse on Sunday December 18 , 4pm for our Winters’ Solstice program, featuring warm and wonderful music by composers both familiar and new.
Included are works by J. S. Bach, Manuel DeFalla and Michael Head & Margaret’s popular ‘guess the composer’ segment featuring yet another famous rock star’s attempt at composing a Classical style piece!
We hope to see you there,
Happy Holidays from the Lowell Trio!

I just received this from a reader … hope some of you can attend!

The Sunday concert will be free and for the students the ticket prices are $5 on Saturday. Also, on Sunday they will do “Instrument Petting Zoo” during the intermission, where musicians will take their instruments and talk about them to the audience members.

(And Daniel, have a wonderful concert!)

… NYC, that is … this just in from my brother:

Greetings!

Please join us at the upcoming Willow Ensemble Concerts on November 11 & 12, 8PM at the Grace Church Chantry.

The program features works by Poulenc (Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, & Piano); Haydn (“Sunrise” Quartet); and Shostakovich (Piano Quintet).

Same price as usual: $20 at the door and $15 in advance.

To reserve seats at the advance price, you can

1) reply to this email* with your name, number of tickets needed, and concert date, or

2) leave a message (specifying name, number of tix and concert date) on the cell phone of our oboe player, at [removed]*

Cheers!

–Timothy

Timothy Emerson, Artistic Director, Willow Ensemble

I didn’t want to post an email address or phone number on the blog without first getting permission, and I’m currently racing out the door for my morning walk, so please just contact me if you want the info, okay?

… yep … with Maestro Dudamel conducting. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard the LA Phil before, and I’ve always been interested in seeing Gustavo Dudamel conduct. In addition Janine Jansen, whom I’ve heard so much about, is soloing. They are playing this Sunday at 2:00 PST. I’m gonna be there.

In San Jose.

No, they aren’t actually playing in San Jose. But I’ll get to watch and hear them at CineArts at Santana Row. Nice! Here’s the info I received:

MEDIA ALERT ** MEDIA ALERT ** MEDIA ALERT

LA PHIL MUSIC DIRECTOR GUSTAVO DUDAMEL TO HOST FIRST LA PHIL LIVE PERFORMANCE OF THE 2011/12 SEASON

ALL-MENDELSSOHN CONCERT TO BE SIMULCAST IN MORE THAN 440 MOVIE THEATERS THROUGH NCM FATHOM

Concert Features Violinist Janine Jansen

LA PHIL LIVE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2011, AT 2 PM PACIFIC/5 PM EASTERN

WHAT:
The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s dynamic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel plays the dual role of conductor and host in the first LA Phil LIVE concert of the 2011/12 season to be broadcast live in select movie theaters throughout the U.S., Sunday, October 9, at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern. LA Phil LIVE: Dudamel conducts Mendelssohn, features Dutch violin virtuoso Janine Jansen performing Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, a work she has recorded to great acclaim. The all-Mendelssohn program also includes the Hebrides Overture and the “Scottish” Symphony – musical souvenirs of the composer’s 1829 vacation in Scotland and the Hebrides Islands. The broadcast includes the popular Backstage Pass features, with live behind-the-scenes interviews and exclusive rehearsal footage of the musicians.

The performance kicks off the second season of LA Phil LIVE, presented by the LA Phil and NCM Fathom.

Complete Program:

MENDELSSOHN Hebrides Overture
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”

WHO:
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, conductor/host
JANINE JANSEN, violin

For full artists’ biographies, please visit: www.laphil.com/

WHEN:
Sunday, October 9, 2011, at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern

WHERE:
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

Broadcast to select movie theaters across the U.S.

HOW TO PURCHASE:
Tickets for LA Phil LIVE: Dudamel conducts Mendelssohn are available at participating theater box offices and online at www.fathomevents.com. For a complete list of theater locations and ticket prices, please visit the website (theaters and participants are subject to change). LA Phil LIVE will be shown in select movie theaters through NCM’s exclusive Digital Broadcast Network.

Part of me thinks, “You IDIOT! You have one day off — finally — what are you thinking?” But I think this might be a great way to spend my Sunday afternoon. I’ll let you know how it goes!

Symphony Silicon Valley, with the help of Target, is doing free concerts this weekend and next. Do check out all the info here. I’m playing English horn and a very small bit of third oboe this first weekend. For the July 30 concert I play all of one work: Ravel’s Bolero. For the second I play a wee bit more, but if you don’t listen carefully you just might miss me. It’s a rather easy job for me, but I’m delighted to be back at work! Or play. Or work—play. You decide!

And hey, there’s free ice cream at the Sunday, July 31 concert. For you. Not for me. (I don’t eat ice cream and the put a reed in my mouth. Bad idea!)

I’ll bring a camera and try to snap a few photos. Stay tuned!

Poland has organised a classical music festival in the capital this autumn, which will pack 70 concerts into a four-day period.
The “Szalone Dni Muzyki” (Crazy Day of Music) festival, will run from September 29 to October 2 in Warsaw, organisers said, featuring music by Brahms, Liszt, Mahler and Strauss.
“These are short concerts, each lasting around 50 minutes, with ticket prices that put them within the range of a broader public,” the festival’s French artistic director Rene Martin told reporters.
Tickets cost 10 zloty (2.50 euros, $3.60).
The festival, in its second year, is a spin-off of France’s “La Folle Journee”, held in the city of Nantes in Brittany, western France.
A total of 27,000 people attended the 2010 edition, but organisers are hoping to double that this year.

(I won’t mention that the “crazy day” is actually four days long. Nope. Not gonna mention that! Aren’t you glad?)

But I really do love this idea! All this music, four intense days. All affordable. Very cool!

I read it here.