Alex Ross's book The Rest is Noise has reached print at last. Congratulations, Alex - and I'm looking forward to the UK edition from Fourth Estate which is due out here in spring. Stylists as fine as Alex are a rarity in classical music writing and this volume looks certain to become a classic. If anyone out there still hasn't sampled Alex, here's a link to his Sibelius chapter - some of the most beautiful writing about music I've ever seen.
Chris Foley of Collaborative Piano alerts today to an interesting innovation: he's created a Classical Music Pagecast on Pageflakes. Technotwit here hadn't come across this idea until now, but it's good: the ultimate blogroll.
Opera Chic has found a real Italian tenor and links to a Youtube video of him singing Nessun Dorma. Voice to die for. Name: Fabio Armiliato. Thanks, OC!
And over at Think Denk, Jeremy has created a side-splitting scenic spoof: Shakespeare's little-known tragicomedy about life, love and death al dente among passionate youngsters in New York, Romeo and Juilliard. Get along there quick and meet Romeo, Mercutio, Candy and the Ghost of Dorothy DeLay.
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Thanks, for the link, Jessica. One of the things I've learned doing the pagecast was just how many darned classical music blogs there are out there. I'll add to the bookmarked list as more blogs are unearthed.
OperaChic has "found" a real Italian tenor?? Fabio Armiliato has been around for at least 15 years; he sang Manrico and Radames in SF in the mid-90s. I heard the Radames and was unimpressed. He has sung at the Met and elsewhere in the States, too.
To be technically correct here, OC wrote about Armiliato and I found the post & haven't come across this guy before. Reckoned he must be reasonably big time to be singing Turandot with Gergiev, though.
Chris Foley has done us a real service with his pagecast. He mentions in his blog that the term 'collaborative piano' was coined by Samuel Sanders. That is both fitting and ironic. Blair Tindall, a close friend of Sanders, mentions in her 'Mozart in the Jungle:Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music', that, out of his unconsciously huge recital fee, Itzhak Perlman used to pay Sanders an unconscionable $1000. And no bonus when those Beethoven sonatas for 'piano and violin' were on the programme.
Whoops! I did, of course, mean "unconscionably huge recital fee". I suspect Perlman is very conscious of how much he gets paid.
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