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Try as we might...
Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has a little featurette on NPR's Performance Today web site called How to Make a Piano Sing, which offers some downloadable music by Ohlsson and even a video clip. The item plugs Ohlsson's appearance on Live From Lincoln Center on August 2 at the opening of the Mostly Mozart Festival.
Mr. Ohlsson will perform an all-Beethoven recital for the Celebrity Series on February 10, 2007 at NEC's Jordan Hall.
In yet another development cleverly designed to divide the generations, the UK edition of Monopoly has replaced play money with play credit cards and a reader - read about it (and weep) here.
On the other hand, a few years ago, Hasbro began offering free, printable online pdfs of Monopoly money for download. Does the Federal Reserve Bank know about these guys...?
Thanks, as always, to boingboing.net.
Here is a terrific item I bookmarked months ago and just rediscovered. All five of conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim's Reith Lectures from April of this year are available online in audio, video or transcript form from BBC Radio 4. The first Barenboim lecture is entitled In the Beginning was Sound. Recent (back to 1999) and historic (Bertrand Russell from 1948, John Kenneth Galbraith from 1966) Reith Lectures are also available on the site as audio files. Great stuff.
Can't remember which blog I saw this on. Let me know if it was you so you can get proper credit...
This blog reached 13,000 page views this weekend. What began as an unassuming little link post covering Celebrity Series performing artists has now blossomed into a slightly older unassuming little link post covering Celebrity Series performing artists...
Image by Adrian Gottlieb from The Painter's Keys Community for Artists.
Bill Marx
Here is Bill Marx's final column for WBUR Arts. In the interest of keeping this link live, I'm linking to the version on Bill's new blog, not the one on WBUR.org.
AileyCamp Boston Guidance Counselor Brendan Adams watches Jazz Dance class this past Tuesday at Boston Renaissance Charter School in Boston. Leading the class is Robert Clemons, jazz dance instructor for the camp, which is administered by the Celebrity Series.
As usual boingboing.net is making me smile. Today, they have me thinking about cutlery made from potato starch, and all the people likely to receive biodegradable spud tools from me this holiday season...
...and a YouTube post of Chico Marx indulging in some of his famous piano theatrics from A Night in Casablanca (there are a number of Marx Brothers excerpts available on YouTube, including Harpo's renowned harping). There is probably an apt German word for things like this video, wacky and charming all at once...
