#KlausMäkelä, who will become #music dir designate immediately, said in an interview that he did not think his age was relevant, noting that he had been conducting for >½ his life, beginning at 12.
“I don’t think about it. Music doesn’t really have any age,” he said.
Any time period, any style -- I'm interested in seeing different ways of combining these forces, and studying the nuts and bolts of #orchestration.
If you're a #conductor, #choral director, or #composer who has wrestled with this, what would you say are the key do's and don'ts of writing for this combination?
Tournedos alla Rossini
On stage at the #Teatro#Massimo di #Palermo
Libretto by Paolo Vittorio Montanari
Music by Elia Andrea Corazza (Elijax) @elijax after Rossini
I'm going to have a bit of a #tech#rant (less charitable people might say #whine) here. If you just want jokes and cute bunny pictures, feel free to skip this one.
Object of my #ire this week? #Furnaces. I'm not even going to rant about their main control boards; most of that's been said better than I could say it, by others with more knowledge than I.
However, when you push a current through a conductor, it "pushes back" some, fighting the change to its magnetic state. This is normal; you sometimes have to account for it to prevent damage to the driving electronics. It's called "back-EMF".
"Written in July 2023, over the course of four days in which the measured worldwide average temperature broke the previous heat record every single day, this piece is intense, repetitive and discomfiting."
Taking a bow with the amazing #MatsuoDuo! First concert of seven in the books. This #FireflyMusicFestival of the Missouri Symphony is going to be an absolute blast! Coming up, Friday 6/30, we will be performing Gabriela Ortiz’s Clara, Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and Saint-Saëns’s Third Symphony in our “Clara: Inspiration & Legacy” concert! #classicalmusic#orchestra#symphony#conductor#brahms@classicalmusic
@classicalmusic Good morning friends ☕ The short about Verdi's La traviata is up. It's also our first GUEST post! 😊
@louislohraseb is an international guest conductor 🤩 He's also a friend, former @iujsom classmate, and one of the most knowledgeable people I know — especially when it comes to Italian opera!
Recording is at ianconducts.com. Happy listening! 🎧
I hope you enjoyed learning about Weber's Euryanthe earlier this week 🎧
Next week, though, opera starts to get REAL with Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata 😭 I'm also going to ruin the ending of basically every opera from the mid-late 19th century 😬