Category: music

The vibraphonist passed away of liver cancer on Saturday. – Toronto Star
(ALSO: Hear a report from NPR Morning Edition 10.11.99 [Real Audio clip]
AND: The Boston Globe‘s story 10.12.99)

36-year-old José Cura has one of the two most alluring tenor voices of his generation, says one critic. Fiery as his Spanish-Lebanese-Argentinean parentage, he also has plenty of ego to burn. – The Times (UK)

But already Daniel Harding has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic and has a recording contract. This week the conducting world’s wunderkind took on the London Symphony Orchestra. – Financial Times

American opera struggles to build a viable new repertory, but William Bolcom’s A View From the Bridge, which just premiered in Chicago, shows links to the past. – Chicago Tribune
(ALSO: Reviews from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, New York magazine)

Net-Aid – the largest global concert ever points up the differences between haves and have-nots. – The New York Times
(ALSO: Promoters will announce today whether the concert reached one billion listeners, as they hoped. – BBC 10.11.99
AND: The AP news report of the concert – AP via The Dallas Morning News 10.10.99
AND: Tuning in on the web was like “watching the shaky output from a slow-motion security camera.” – Wired 10.11.99)

Last week’s gathering of Glenn Gould fans in Toronto has one observer pondering the relationship between those fans and their artist. – The Sydney Morning Herald

– plays Miami Saturday to protests from thousands of demonstrators.  Miami Herald

One of the most recorded-orchestras in history releases a historic set of recordings to commemorate a milestone. – The Philadelphia Inquirer

Why, oh why so many new recordings of Bach? Another anniversary looms. – The Sunday Times (UK)

Disney commissioned a “millennial” symphony on the order of Mahler and talked the New York Philharmonic into performing it. After hearing it, writes Philip Kennicott, the only question is whom to feel sorrier for. – The Washington Post