The Fun Theory, according to Volkswagen, is that if you make something that’s good for you into fun, more people will be likely to go along.
The theory seems to be borne out in a video that’s going viral: Working overnight,…
A generation ago, Monty Python presented “News for Parrots.” Now, the BBC offers News for Cats.
You may have encountered Nora, the piano-playing cat, on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ860P Now, the BBC reports, Lithuanian composer Mindaugas Piecaitis has written a concerto for Nora -…
Obviously, if you’ve been following my posted-dispatches from and about the Cliburn piano competition, you’re aware that the event’s management has embraced the Internet in a big way. NPR has a complete story on the subject at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105028043
Eight years ago, I called the winners of the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: although I didn’t anticipate that there would be ties for both the gold and silver medals, I did predict Olga Kern, Stanislav Ioudenitch, and Antonio…
I’m back in St. Louis (there’s a production opening tonight at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, www.experienceopera.org , Mozart’s Il Re Pastore, and I’m covering it), which means that I’m watching the final round in the same way as millions of…
FORT WORTH - Saturday’s marathon at the Cliburn piano competition finals continued at 7:30 with Di Wu of China, who opened with J.S. Bach’s Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910. She gave it a lovely, light, accurate and transporting account,…
FORT WORTH The finals of the 13th International Van Cliburn Piano Competition are like a marathon; each of the six finalists performs three major programs in five days. There’s a 50-minute recital, a concerto with chamber orchestra, and a concerto with…
FORT WORTH - I’m at the Cliburn piano competition as part of a group from the Music Critics Association of North America. The competition’s organizers are taking wonderful care of us, with a nice press office across the street from…
FORT WORTH - From an interesting and entertaining talk on the stage of Bass Hall, by conductor James Conlon, who’s leading the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in the concerto rounds of the Cliburn piano competition:
“Our society puts most of its…
FORT WORTH - At the conclusion of Friday night’s concert, the halfway point for the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, there were no obvious winners-in -waiting.
As is the case with each of the six concerts in the final round,…
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