Tag Archives: Mozart

How to miss the Titanic (part II)

[This is the second in a series of posts in which I will talk about the current, troubled, state of professional musicmaking and offer some glimpses of possible solutions for the future.] The first time I heard the London Symphony … Continue reading

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It’s 42!

The extraordinary news from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, that the 82-year-old librarian, Joseph Havashvilli of the city’s 380-year-old conservatory of music, had concealed for the last sixty years, Mozart’s Symphony No. 42, has amazed the music world. Musicologists have … Continue reading

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A la recherche de la musique perdue

In my teens I fell in love with the music of Schubert and spent many happy summers studying virtually everything he wrote from the songs to the symphonies, to the string quartets and piano works.  Then, all of sudden my … Continue reading

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