The Classical Gabfest The Classical Gabfest

This week, we start out with a rousing round of Name That Tune AKA Stump The Hosts and then we move on to discussion topic of the week: Teachers & Teaching!
CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
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Kensho
Brahms Symphony No. 4
Tiffany
Christine Donkin, “Frosted Pane”
Will
Glazunov, Symphony No. 2 in F-sharp minor
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This week, we start out with a rousing round of Listening Limbo and then we move on to our discussion topic of the week: Clothing!
CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
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Tiffany
Morton Gould, Tap Dance Concerto
Will
Strauss, Kaiser-Waltzer
Kensho
Puccini, La Bohème: “Vecchia Zimarra” 
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This week, we start out with a rousing round of Match the Interpreter and then we move on to our discussion topic of the week, Programming!
CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
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Will
Holst, Ode to Death
Kensho
Tchaikovsky, Iolanta: Robert’s Aria
Tiffany
Bohuslav Martinu, Memorial to Lidice
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This week, we start out with an impromptu round of car radio Name That Tune and then we move on to our three topics:
EXILORCHESTER MRIYA
Exiled Ukrainian Musicians Create Orchestra In Germany
UNFINISHED
Schipps sentenced to 60 months of prison
Damien Geter “African-American Requiem” premieres at OSO and Washington DC
Ruth Slenczynska receives honorary doctorate from Curtis at 97
Bernstein pics are antisemitic? 
Anna Netrebko announces her upcoming concert & opera appearances 
CONCERT REPORT
CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
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Tiffany
Strauss, Metamorphosen
Will
Messiaen, O sacrum convivium
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This week, we start out with a rousing round of Name That Tune AKA Stump the Hosts and then we move on to our three topics:
NEWS! Headlines
Steinway IPOs (Fast Company)
Missing 100k Violin Found by a Parisian Trash Can (The Strad)
Rice Opens New Opera House (FDA Online)
St. Paul’s adds girls to chorister program (St. Paul’s)
YoYo Ma wins $1m Birgit Nilsson prize (The Strad)
Congrats to Tiffany on her appointment as director of orchestras at U-FL! Go Gators!
BERNSTEIN BIOPIC PICS DROP
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein: First Look (Deadline)
ALBUM REVIEW: STILL, ORCHESTRAL WORKS
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Album info on Naxos
CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
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Kensho
Mozart, Oboe Quartet in F Major 
Tiffany
William Grant Still, Kaintuck’
Will
Telemann, Ouverture “Les Nations”: 5. Les Moscovites
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This week, we start out with a rousing round of Who Dis? and then we move on to our three topics:
SFCM BUYS PENTATONE
SF Conservatory Acquires Pentatone (SFCV)
San Francisco Conservatory Adds A Record Label to its Portfolio (SF Chronicle)
A Conservatory with a Record Label and a Management Firm: That’s Weird, or is it? (SF Chronicle)
THE WORST CLASSICAL PERFORMANCES
YouTube
CAN ORCHESTRAS MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA STARS OF THEIR PLAYERS?
The Orchestra of Influence (YouTube)
CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
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Will
Ralf Yusuf Gawlick, Kollwitz-Konnex, op. 19
Kensho
Giacomo Puccini, Crisantemi
Tiffany
Verdi, Rigoletto: “Bella figlia dell’amore”

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