Apparently, some experts claim that having your kid in the womb listen to music (especially classical music) is great for their mental development, giving them a head start before they pop out of the womb. Doesn’t explain how we get child prodigies like Mozart in the past when there was no such thing though, leading me to believe that this is more or less hogwash and is some sort of marketing tool instead. Still, if you’re adamant on making sure your yet-unborn kid will be the next world genius,
Filed Under:
Classical MusicTagged:
Child Prodigies,
Classical Music,
Genius,
Head Start,
Listen Music,
Listen To Music,
Marketing Tool,
Mozart,
Music Classical,
Prenatal Music,
Womb
The 2010 Prague Winter Festival, celebrated for 38 years, runs from Jan. 2 to 7 with performances of opera, ballet, classical music and jazz. “Featured composers are Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and many more. We have some fabulous four- and five-night packages at a choice of eight hotels, including the very best seats for all performances during the festival,” said Tracy Schiller, managing director of Keith Prowse USA. Standard packages include choice of three evening and tw
Filed Under:
Classical MusicTagged:
Ballet Music,
Classical Composers,
Classical Music,
Jazz Composers,
Keith Prowse,
Managing Director,
Mozart,
Music Composers,
Music Jazz,
Opera Ballet,
Opera Music,
Prague Ballet,
Prague Opera,
Prague Winter,
Puccini,
Schiller,
Strauss,
Tchaikovsky,
Winter Fest,
Winter Festival
Violinist Leila Josefowicz (photo by Deborah O’Grady) gt;gt; We only recommend a trip to Baltimore for something extraordinary, and this week the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is not bringing a worthy program to Strathmore. Daring conductor Robert Spano, music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, will conduct two Russian fairytale scores, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and the suite from Stravinsky's ballet score for The Firebird . (October 29 and 30, 8 p.m.) The concert will als
Filed Under:
Classical MusicTagged:
Agenda,
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,
Ballet Score,
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,
Classical Music,
Conductor,
Firebird,
Music Director,
Robert Spano,
Scheherazade,
Stravinsky,
Violinist Leila Josefowicz
“ Every time the Plastic Popera one mentions any of the following subjects, you must take a mouthful of whiskey, chocolate or bitesize vegetation: being an opera singer; being a classical singer; bringing classical music to ordinary people; being too slim beautiful to be an opera singer; how she and her fellow opera singers get fat because they eat late; her dear dead Dad; being shot down in Iraq, Afghanistan whatever; naturally having a blonde personality; Wales
Filed Under:
Classical MusicTagged:
Afghanistan,
Blonde,
Chocolate,
Classical Music,
Classical Singer,
Dad,
Iraq,
Mouthful,
Opera Singer,
Opera Singers,
Ordinary People,
Personality,
Vegetation,
Wales,
Whiskey
We continue with avant-garde classical music: Celebrating the 80th birthday of American composer George Crumb… Above: photo of Crumb, 1968 (w. child and sausage dog) Below: A performance of part 1 Departures of the suite Black Angels , a portion titled Threnody I: Night of the Electric Insects (Play it loud in a dark room and think of The Exorcist !) George Crumb was commissioned by the Stanley Quartet to create an experimental piece. Sure that he wanted to avoid writing a
Filed Under:
Classical MusicTagged:
80th Birthday,
American Composer,
Avant Garde,
Avant Music,
Black Angels,
Classical Music,
Departures,
Exorcist,
Experimental Piece,
George Crumb,
Night Of The Electric Insects,
Photo,
Quartet,
Sausage Dog,
Stanley Next Page »
