Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to good things in Blogville and Beyond.
- Franz Liszt was born in 1811, which makes the year to come a bicentenary one. Thierry Hilleriteau has an appreciation, with comments from French pianist Roger Muraro, who has just released a recording of Liszt's transcription of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. [Le Figaro]
- In what must be another of the inevitable signs that classical music is dead, New York concert presenters are cutting back big-time. We suspect the same is true in Washington, too. [WQXR]
- Hooray, the rotting corpse of classical music is in good company. Rock music is also dead! [The Guardian]
- In related news, jazz isn't dead anymore! [New York Times]
- Never mind: jazz is dead after all. [Los Angeles Times]
- Marie-Aude Roux went to the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse to review a rare French production of Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery in Russian. [Le Monde]
- According to a new study, Washington is America's Most Literate City. Suck it, San Francisco (#6), Boston (#12), and New York (#26)! [Central Connecticut State University]
- In bad news for Washington's hopes for the survey next year, I have read none of the books that were on the New York Times bestseller lists the week that I was born. I will never catch up! [Bookslut]
Given the reader comments on the WQXR story, the subtitle might as well be: "With friends like these, who needs enemies."
ReplyDeleteAs if taxidermism was the way to keep classical music alive (rather then 'preserve' it).