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2022-07-01 16:00:45
Watch a world premiere performance of choral songs built on texts from important Washington women, from Kamala Harris and Condoleezza Rice to Eleanor Roosevelt, Elena Kagan and Abigail Adams.
2022-06-24 21:09:00
The states can now force pregnant women, trans men, and nonbinary people to remain pregnant and give birth, regardless of what they want, regardless of whether the pregnancy is wanted, regardless of whether their health is threatened by the pregnancy, regardless of whether they were raped. So much for bodily autonomy, so much for the rights of living humans.Just wait for Republicans to try to pass a constitutional amendment or federal law banning abortion, even though a majority wants Roe to remain the law of the land. They'll try for this as soon as they have the trifecta again.Let's note, also, that this is taking place in a country without universal health care, without parental leave, and without child care, where the maternal morbidity and mortality rate is the highest in Western industrialized nations, and where Black women's rate of maternal death is three times that of white women.The news:Supreme Court […]
2021-11-12 15:01:10
Brahms: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A Minor Op. 102.* Shostakovich: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 in E Flat Major Op. 107** Oleg Kagan, violin, Natalia Gutman, cello. State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR/Yevgeny Svetlanov.* Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/Alexander Lazarev** DOREMI 2022 ★★★★★ Natalia Gutman (1942-) and her husband, Oleg Kagan, [...]
2021-06-14 05:06:00
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (SACD review)
Also, Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 3. Vadim Gluzman, violin; James Gaffigan, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. BIS 2392.By John J. PuccioAnother Beethoven Violin Concerto? Well, it’s a popular piece. Every violinist with aspirations of greatness must play and record it. And the obsessive Beethoven or classical collector can never get enough of anything. So where there’s a need, there’s someone to fill it. Fortunately, this one is pretty good, with Ukrainian-born Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman accompanied by conductor James Gaffigan and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.Beethoven wrote the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major in 1806. It received an unfavorable première, and the composer practically shelved it for the rest of his life, never publishing another violin concerto again. The world would have to wait until 1844 before violinist Joseph Joachim and conductor and composer Felix Mendelssohn revived the work, and, needless to say, it has been one of the most important […]
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