Monthly Archives: November 2005

Departures

November 24, 2005

Home Away From Home
Home, to Sir Simon Rattle, is the familiar musical repertory we most often
hear at concerts and on the radio, music from the 19th century or before, when
the tunes and the harmonies were friendly and set the mind at rest. Leaving
Home is the television series that Rattle and some friends dreamed up at
the [...]

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Twice Fifteen

November 17, 2005

Last Breaths
During the several years’ survey of the symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich, the Philharmonic has had the admirable idea of preceding each symphony with the like-numbered string quartet in a pre-concert presentation, performed by orchestra members. Those quartet performances were later repeated as part of the Philharmonic’s “Chamber Music” series. The matchup hasn’t always been [...]

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Passions Most Noble

November 10, 2005

Bravely, Uphill
Alone on a concert stage or facing an orchestra, András Schiff is
a comforting presence. He puts on no airs, nor does his music-making. Something
about his quiet, undemonstrative manner tells us that we, and his chosen music,
are in trustworthy hands. This was so last season at Disney, in his intelligent
solo performance of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. [...]

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Bliss

November 3, 2005

Two concerts, on successive nights of a recent weekend, were enough to
restore anyone’s faith in the continued strengths of our music, our music makers
and the people who make music happen. Both drew capacity, cheering crowds. I’ll
write about them in reverse chronology, according to the relative age of the music
itself.
Minimal
On the Saturday (10/22), at Santa Monica’s [...]

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