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ClassicalTV

  1. Dance-maker Tyler Ashley and his Times Square/High Line extravaganza (inspired by Russian constructivism!): bit.ly/JylWgP
  2. George Grella on the poetics of music: "Good Chopin playing is precise, with a light touch and a sense of pleasure..." bit.ly/ME4dV3
  3. From the Best of Hughes Views: "Rescuing Operas from Obscurity" bit.ly/KQEELX
  4. Duo-pianists Anderson & Roe and their exuberant and haunting Carmen Fantasy: bit.ly/Mbe4Pe
  5. Tonight in Brooklyn: pianist Cecil Taylor at Issue Project Room! bit.ly/IQG8ng
  6. Violinist Tim Fain brings his multimedia work Portals to the Aaron Copland House (in Cortlandt Manor, NY) this Sunday: bit.ly/LNUmsB
  7. Pianist Cecil Taylor comes to Brooklyn's Issue Project Room on Saturday!! bit.ly/IQG8ng
  8. Also new in editorial: Five Things You Should Know About Jack Ferver: bit.ly/MgBaGL ("Nothing is black and white. Chaos reigns...")
  9. George Grella's interview with violinist Tim Fain: bit.ly/LNUmsB -- about "people connected and disconnected by technology..."
  10. Our interview with pianist Vanessa Perez: "I knew I could not be without the piano once I began playing as a child..." bit.ly/McBdn5
  11. Alma Mahler meets Walter Gropius, and Gustav Mahler consults Freud (in a new film by Percy Adlon)... bit.ly/JrQjQr
  12. New in the blogs: Florestan on security, Clive on Tosca, Grella on three young opera composers: bit.ly/JB1V6M
  13. Annals of the Secure Culture: Chuck Close and Nancy Graves at the CUNY Graduate Center bit.ly/AgQAfN
  14. George Grella on opera composers Jason Cady, Aaron Siegel, and Matthew Welch: bit.ly/ucXee9
  15. Composer Gabriel Prokofiev speaks with Classical TV's Stephen Greco about his new work "Jerk Driver": bit.ly/L0yhqs
  16. Jazz great Cecil Taylor comes to Issue Project Room in Brooklyn: bit.ly/IQG8ng
  17. Just posted: Bob Hughes' article on "Paris in Song": bit.ly/JumSvn (We appreciate your patience as we make system improvements.)
  18. Videos temporarily down (sorry!), but the new Grella's here: bit.ly/HeLUUx "I’ll always go see Elvis Costello and never Lady Gaga..."
  19. NPR's "Beethoven's 10th" story: n.pr/hsFr38
  20. Just posted our recommendations for this week, and some new free programs: bit.ly/ehW1