Blog 10. Beethoven’s Concerti I – The Violin Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven spent most of his most productive compositional life battling a slow losing battle with deafness. He was an iconoclast of the first…
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Blog 8. Brahms Concerti I – Violin and Double Concerti
Johannes Brahms is the third B – with Bach and Beethoven. He also is the least known and probably the least admired. I certainly felt…
Blog 5. Puccini – Madame Butterfly
For his librettist for Madama Butterfly, Puccini chose the team of Illica and Giacosa, the same librettists who wrote La Boheme. It joins Boheme and…
Blog 4. Puccini – Tosca “that shabby little shocker”
The famed critic and music pedant Joseph Kerman coined “that shabby little shocker” phrase for Tosca in his book “Opera as Drama”, a book I…