Music

November 13, 2003 9:00 AM

Music in Patrick O'Brian's novels

When I was a lad, books like Captains Courageous and Two Years Before the Mast, The Sea Wolf and later, Moby Dick, all gave me dreams of being a sailor. But after several Channel crossings and a sailing weekend on Lake Superior, I've found I don't have the stomach for it. It seems I'll have to keep my sailing adventures to the printed page, and the silver screen. But as a classical music broadcaster, I have to give O'Brian especially good marks for the way he treats music in his novels. How could you not love a writer who ends a rollicking sea adventure, The Letter of Marque, with everyone on deck singing an aria from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte!

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November 5, 2003 9:00 AM

Minnesota Opera performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppi Verdi

As the first scene opens, there is a lavish party is in progress at the duke's palace. The Duke tells his companion, Borsa, about a young woman who has caught his attention at church. No sooner has he finished describing her than he is talking about another woman, the Countess Ceprano. Borsa warns him to look out for her husband. But the Duke is unconcerned. He considers women to be his playthingsâhe claims he simply can't help himself when surrounded by so many pretty faces

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November 1, 2003 9:00 AM

Giving Thanks, 2003

Like your Thanksgiving Day feast, Giving Thanks combines traditional fare with unexpected delights. For Thanksgiving 2003, we've invited some wonderful guests to the program, including Wendy Wasserstein, Donald Hall, and highlights from the Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.

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October 24, 2003 12:01 AM

Langlais plays Langlais

You've never heard the Piece Symphonique. But then, Jean Langlais never heard it either, and he composed it. Now its finally getting its world premier in Minnesota.

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October 20, 2003 9:00 AM

Eighty Years of composer Ned Rorem

Words and music are inextricably linked for Ned Rorem. Time Magazine has called him "the world's best composer of art songs," yet his musical and literary ventures extend far beyond this specialized field. Rorem has composed three symphonies, four piano concertos and an array of other orchestral works, music for numerous combinations of chamber forces, nine operas, choral works of every description, ballets and other music for the theater, and literally hundreds of songs and cycles. He is the author of sixteen books, including five volumes of diaries and collections of lectures and criticism.

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October 20, 2003 9:00 AM

The House on Cedar Street: musical interactive environment

Remember that house where you went for your first piano lessons? Scary, eh? Well not as scary as what that house looks like now it has been empty for years and devoid of life, or at least, human life... hahahahahahaha. It lies abandoned there on Cedar and 7th Street among the derelict ruins of downtown Saint Paul. Some say there was once a radio station run out of the attic and ghostly sounds can be heard from the cobweb-ridden furniture. You only have to look and the green miasmic mist is illuminated and the songs of the undead assault your eardrums and shiver your spine into jelly and I don't mean blackcurrant.

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October 20, 2003 9:00 AM

Haunted organs and classical macabre

Brad Althoff, associate producer of Pipedreams, take listeners on a musical journey through classic Halloween and scary flavored music.

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October 20, 2003 9:00 AM

Interview with violinist Itzhak Perlman

He's one of the icons of modern-day Classical Music, a musician who's done the late-show circuit, first playing on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958 when he was just 13, won enough Grammy's to fill a wall-sized case and an individual performer in the mold of the great violinists who came before him. Itzhak Perlman was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, and since then has played with all the major orchestras of the world, giving thousands of concerts with orchestras or with a piano accompanist, solo on stage. Mr. Perlman was in the Twin Cities on October 21, 2003 to play a recital at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, the opening concert of the Schubert Club's International Artist Series. Accompanied by pianist Rohan da Silva, he played a program of Bach, Beethoven and Poulenc.

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October 17, 2003 4:25 PM

Sherwin Linton is cool country

As far as country music goes, Sherwin Linton of Coon Rapids is the real deal. You can hear it in his deep South Dakota drawl and see it in his cowboy boots and fringed suede jacket. Linton, 64, can't remember a day when he wasn't in love with country, or western music as it was called back in his youth. He's performed from coast to coast, appeared on TV, written radio hits and done the Nashville/Grand Ole Opry circuit. Linton was country before country was cool, as the slogan goes. Linton brings his country caravan to the Midwest Country Theater in Sandstone, Minnesota, this Sunday night, in support of his new CD, It Happened in America. On Monday night, he plays at the Fine Line Music cafe in Minneapolis.

by Chris Roberts

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September 18, 2003 5:00 AM

Minnesota Orchestra hoping to learn from its mistakes

The Minnesota Orchestra is celebrating its centennial year with its new music director, Osmo Vänskä, finally in place. He is the orchestra's 10th music director and like others, he will be compared with his predecessors. Some critics say they hope the orchestra doesn't repeat mistakes made when it appointed Eiji Oue as music director.

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