We all agree that the music critic position is not considered a “dangerous” one. No chance to step on a mine, to receive a lost projectile in the heart or to be imprisonned in a forgotten jail. Nevertheless, ten days ago, Donald Rosenberg, ...
Everyone knows that divas constantly throw tantrums and are impossible to handle, right? Well, of course, not quite. I know a few that are very professionnal and, most importantly, real sweethearts. But I must admit that I just love anecdotes that ...
Everyone knows that divas constantly throw tantrums and are impossible to handle, right? Well, of course, not quite. I know a few that are very professionnal and, most importantly, real sweethearts. But I must admit that I just love anecdotes that ...
Alborada del gracioso (Morning Song of the Jester) is famous among pianists for its impossible to muster double-note glissandi and very arduous repeated notes. Alborada is Spanish for “dawn” and refers to music performed during those ...
You never go to sleep before singing E lucevan le stelle or sing Carmen’s Habanera in your head every time you meet a new man? Your friends constantly remind you that you should have completed your Cegep in music instead of administration? You ...
The film had been loudly saluted in Europe so I seized the first chance I got to see The Concert (with English subtitles in some cinemas), a Radu Mihaileanu movie. The story is as as extravagant (some moments are truly unplausible but we go to the ...
To perk up this grey day, here are some new twists on old Italian favourites, some priceless… Adagio Formaggio: To play in a slow and cheesy manner AnDante: A musical composition that is infernally slow. Angus Dei: To play with a divine, beefy ...
Starting in September, the American-Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi will become the new music director of the Orchestre de Paris, in replacement of Christoph Eschenbach. No “big revolutions” but “new directions” in the ...
There is nothing I hate most then coming back from vacation and learning bad news. For 10 days, I was quite content not to open the TV set, to ignore the daily newspapers and to forget to not miss a beat thanks to the Web. And then, bam, the first ...
I love the Spanish repertoire and the warmth it instanly brings to the ears of a listener. The music can be sometimes flamboyant, sometimes more atmospheric, like it’s the case with Manuel de Falla’s “Nana” taken from his Seven ...
