By CHENDY BLOG Thursday, April 10, 2014 Books CDs Concertgebouw London Strauss Learning from Books One of the major topics of the London Book Fair this year, as indeed in many previous years, concerns the digitisation of books and how tha...
By CHENDY BLOG Sunday, February 16, 2014 Books Looking Maupin San Francisco TV Open your Golden Gate 2014 has seen the release of two chronicles of San Francisco. The first is what has been announced as the final part of Armistead Maupin...
By CHENDY BLOG Tuesday, December 24, 2013 Books Wagner From Abgesang to Zurich Wagner created new worlds within his operas, yet he also generated a new world by them. Has there been any other composer, including Bach, M...
By CHENDY BLOG Saturday, December 14, 2013 Bach Bernstein Books Britten Entartete Musik Gardiner Wagner The Best of 2013... in Books on Music 1. Forbidden Music by Michael Haas (Yale University Press) The product of years of dedicated service putting 'Entartete Musik' back...
By CHENDY BLOG 12:02 AM Art Books Isherwood Philipp Blom Proust Russia Sander Schiele Sebald The Best of 2013... in Books 1. A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald (Hamish Hamilton) A bittersweet reminder of the glories of Sebald, perhaps the most important cultu...
By CHENDY BLOG Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Alma Mahler Bach Books Gardiner Mahler Strauss Wagner Don't Polish the Pedestal Yesterday, I tendered that we are all too keen to defend the creatures we know as composers (but never knew as men and women). Mahler, I ma...
By CHENDY BLOG Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Bernstein Books Mahler Schreker Strauss Sacrifices on the Altar Nigel Simeone's edition of The Leonard Bernstein Letters is a veritable treasure trove. Bernstein may not be the greatest composer of t...
By CHENDY BLOG Friday, November 1, 2013 Books Lost Time Proust 100 Years of Lost Time On Entartete Musik , throughout November, I'll be marking 100 years since the publication of Du côté de chez Swann , the first volume of...