Skype, Facebook, YouTube = Fun Evening

Earlier on today I was chatting with a friend from Munich who seemed to have a lot of fun with the YouTube videos of the Mozart Karaoke that I put on this blog a while back.
By accident I came across an interesting video on facebook today that I wanted to share with you. Remember [...]

Elliott Carter in Boston

Elliot Carter, Jose-Luis Hurtado, and Yehudi Wyner at Harvard University

Elliott Carter who will turn 100 next year, has visited Boston for the premiere of his newest work, a horn concerto. The concerto was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 15 in a program that featured Haydn’s London Symphony and Mahler’s 1st Symphony.
After the [...]

Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Metha and the Staatskapelle Berlin

Barenboim and Mehta

I am an American artist living part-time in Berlin. I have never written anything about a classical music concert, I do not have a sophisticated ear for music, and, in fact, I do not literally hear very well. But, I do know what I like and do not like, and what I [...]

Schubert and Brahms on David Lewin’s Piano

Yesterday night, Seda played a short concert with Schubert’s Sonate in a-moll D. 784 and Brahm’s Sechs Klavierstücke op. 118 in the Lowell House library at Harvard University. I love this pensive program. It is full of deep emotions, thorough thinking, and rhythmic complexities.Seda played on the piano that once belonged to David Lewin, the [...]

Exploring the Boston Scene

The Boston Scene

After a couple of weeks without concerts and opera I am finally starting to explore the Boston music scene (again). So far, most of the non-campus events were disappointing:
1) Boston Symphony Orchestra under James Levine played Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto (with Christian Tetzlaff) and Mahler’s 9th Symphony. This concert was a let-down: the [...]

Do you live in Berlin?

To be honest, I moved to Boston again, and as you may agree, it’s quite hard to write about music in Berlin from here. I haven’t decided yet what’s gonna happen to this blog. Will it become a blog about music in Boston? Maybe not… Will it become a blog about about music in general? [...]