Wow, I've forgotten about this place. I've also forgotten to collect new music... until recently.The big news in the music world last week was the release of U2's new album, No Line on the Horizon. After much deliberation on whether it would be worth getting the album and whether or not I could should afford it, I decided to go ahead and just pick it up while it was still under $10. The album has
So there it is. On Saturday, March 31, I will be in Chicago listening to the CSO play Tchaikovsky's 6th conducted by Charles Dutoit. Hilary Hahn will be there too.
Regrettably, I don't post here often enough, but I've been on a sort of hiatus from the music scene due to my geographic location and lack of funding.But now I'm back in a musically rich area, and I'm banking enough dough to splurge a few bucks here and there on my musical tastes. There are a few concerts coming up for which I am excited and will try to make it to one, if not all.The first is this
Classical Music can be a bitch to buy. Many great recordings get lost in the shuffle. Some have not been transfered from their old analog medium to a digital one. Some were made in Soviet eastern Europe and did not survive. And others just go out of print. This is the case of John Eliot Gardiner's period instrument recordings of the late Mozart Symphonies, nos. 29-41. These symphonies were recorde