Here’s my colleague, public relations and social media guru, talking about upcoming concerts at the Symphony in this month’s video log.
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A Philip Glass playlist
Radio: ‘On stage with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’
A radio piece, in which I am interviewed, about what it sounds like on stage playing in a symphony orchestra. Gideon Brower produced.
On stage with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Public Radio International, Studio 360, Sept. 21, 2017.
Audio: Stravinsky: Andante
Stravinsky’s music is often thought of as a relentlessly bold, spiky and angular, but he also wrote in gentle pastels. Here’s one such piece, his Andante for piano four hands (which I’m learning at the moment).
And now listen to his enchanting orchestration of same.
Kleiber conducts ‘Thunder and Lightning’
An old standby. If this isn’t my favorite classical video, I can’t think which one is. The great Carlos Kleiber conducts the “Thunder and Lightning” Polka by Johann Strauss, Jr. This is stupendous conducting but most everything has already been accomplished in rehearsal. Now he’s just reminding them and enjoying himself, having a party in fact.
