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Greg Stepanich /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/ en-us 2008-08-12T10:11:53-05:00 Farewell, friends and music lovers /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/08/farewell_friend.html After four years and almost 500 entries, it’s time to say farewell to the readers of this blog. As you may already know, The Palm Beach Post has offered buyouts to many of its staff members, and I’ve decided... 2008-08-12T10:11:53-05:00 Libby Larsen, finale: 'Snatching decisions out of infinity' /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/08/libby_larsen_fi_1.html Here is the third and final installment in my March talk with composer Libby Larsen, who's in the middle of a two-year residency at Florida Atlantic University. We covered a lot of ground in the final moments of our... 2008-08-10T17:16:18-05:00 Chamber festival solid in 17th season /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/08/chamber_festiva_1.html This year, I got to only three of the four Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival concerts, but it still satisfied my urge for good music inside as the blast furnace that is July and August in South Florida rolled... 2008-08-08T21:52:43-05:00 The Rimsky centenary: More music, please /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/08/the_rimsky_cent_1.html I haven’t seen too many commemorations of the Rimsky-Korsakov anniversary this year, but he deserves some of our time. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov died 100 years ago this past June at the age of 64, apparently from heart disease. He’s still... 2008-08-04T22:26:43-05:00 Rituals essential to creativity /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/08/rituals_essenti.html In Sue Mingus’ memoir (Tonight at Noon) of her husband, jazz great Charles Mingus, which I was browsing through the other day, she writes about a period in the bassist’s life when pipes were a key accessory: Pipes were... 2008-08-03T14:21:44-05:00 Pianist Wang impressive in Verbier recital /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/07/pianist_wang_im_1.html The Medici.tv Website offers up some more interesting material in this concert Tuesday night from the Verbier Festival in Verbier, Switzerland. The pianist here is the 20-year-old Yuja Wang, a Beijing native now studying at the Curtis Institute with... 2008-07-30T21:07:30-05:00 Remembering Norman Dello Joio, composer /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/07/remembering_nor.html The eminent American composer Norman Dello Joio died last week at the age of 95 after a long and distinguished career, and with his passing goes another of his generation of writers whose compositional focus was primarily lyrical. I... 2008-07-28T21:22:17-05:00 Unfamiliar riches in a familiar room /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/07/unfamiliar_rich_1.html The criticism of the way we do classical music in this country is that we return time and again to the same composers, the same pieces, and we don’t open our minds to the new music today’s composers are... 2008-07-26T18:49:05-05:00 Libby Larsen, Part 2: Finding 'your own creative vigor' /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/07/libby_larsen_pa_1.html Here’s the second part of my talk last March with composer Libby Larsen, edited for digressions (mine) and the usual hesitations of speech we all use when engaged in conversation. In this part of our talk, Larsen talks about... 2008-07-21T23:30:09-05:00 Infrequent Faure: A matter of hands? /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/07/infrequent_faur.html Listening on the way into work yesterday morning to the eminent sportswriter and novelist Frank Deford on NPR, I suddenly thought of Gabriel Faure. DeFord’s piece was based on a new study that showed renowned athletes were more likely... 2008-07-17T01:01:27-05:00 Writer says contemporary classical a failure /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/07/writer_says_con.html The debate about whether contemporary classical music is worth much of anything is joined again in the pages of The Guardian, with writer Joe Queenan arguing that he’s been listening to the stuff for 40 years and that it... 2008-07-12T18:04:45-05:00 German singer lauds the American approach /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/07/german_singer_l.html Over the weekend, I wrapped up a review of The Voice, a memoir by the German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff. It’s a good read, and a fascinating life story about a very fine singer. It also makes a compelling cultural... 2008-07-07T18:59:55-05:00 For the Fourth, William Grant Still /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/07/for_the_fourth_1.html For this July Fourth, I haven’t had time to put together a playlist, but I am focusing on the work of William Grant Still (1895-1978). Still has long been known as the dean of African-American classical composers, and his... 2008-07-04T14:56:50-05:00 'Zaide,' from Aix, via Internet TV /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/06/zaide_from_aix.html Still dropping in this week on Medici.tv, I’ve taken a look at Peter Sellars’ production of Zaide, the “Turkish” singspiel from 1779-80 that Mozart never quite finished, probably because he got a commission not long after to write Idomeneo... 2008-06-30T23:29:04-05:00 Leroy Anderson: A light music master at 100 /blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/entries/2008/06/leroy_anderson.html The current issue of The American Scholar contains an informative essay on the life and music of Leroy Anderson, who would have turned 100 on Sunday. Anderson, who died in 1975, is probably best-known today for Sleigh Ride, which... 2008-06-26T01:13:10-05:00

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