Nancy McIntosh News
American singer and actress (1866-1954)
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Nancy McIntosh)
- soprano
- United States of America
- actor, opera singer, stage actor
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2024-03-24
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2023-07-21 02:35:28
This Sunday, Los Angeles-area listeners will have a rare chance to hear Heinrich Biber's complete Rosary Sonatas, in the hands of the composer-violinist Andrew McIntosh. Maxine Eilander, on Baroque harp, and Ian Pritchard, on organ and harpsichord, will join him....
2023-07-04 06:20:00
San Francisco Symphony: Retirements and Other Departures
Davies Symphony HallPhoto by Lisa HirschA press release from SFS updates the personnel list with several retirements and two additional departures.Retired:Wayne Roden, viola, after 49 years in the orchestraCaroline McIntosh, cello, after 42 yearsAnne Pinsker, cello, after 41 yearsJohn Campbell, assistant librarian, after 32 yearsBruce Roberts, assistant principal and third horn, after 35 yearsLeft for other reasons:Helen Kim, violin, is now the associate concertmaster of the Seattle SymphonyEliot Lev, violin, who is now a mental health professional. He was the first openly transgender member of a major U.S. orchestra. From his web site: I'm Eliot (he/him) a multicultural, sexually and gender-expansive mental health therapist dedicated to supporting diverse LGBTQ+ people through integrative, anti-oppressive and evidence-based mental health practices.
2023-02-04 11:00:00
Audio perfectionists are an almost extinct breed
[…] "something that someone had rescued from behind the screen at the local movie theater," his Altec Lansing Voice of the Theatre system consisted of two large wooden cabinets, each of which was "about the size of a small fridge". Equipped with a fifteen-inch speaker, a driver that was "about four inches in diameter," and "a little mounted on top," each cabinet weighed a hundred pounds. [See photo above] Owsley then ran the sound through a McIntosh amplifier with "two channels, forty watts per channel". Seen above is a McIntosh MC240 40 watts per channel tube power amplifier (1960-1969), the image is reproduced from Ken Rockwell's informative review of the amp. Today audio perfectionists are an almost extinct breed. But it wasn't always like that. Back in 2009 I highlighted an advertising campaign for Acoustic Research speakers endorsed by Herbert von Karajan and Miles Davis […]
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