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From the All Things Strings Community Online
Favorites for Four
The All Things Strings Community is a wonderful resource in so many ways. It’s also a perfect opportunity for the editors of Strings magazine to talk with a very active group of string players. In this spirit, I was hoping to solicit your feedback on a topic that is near and dear to so many string players’ hearts: your favorite string quartet.
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In This Issue of Strings. . .
Students can participate in online master classes with artists from all over the world thanks to innovative new technology that provides impeccable audio and video quality. Tiffany Maleshefski explores the pros and cons of the Internet2 technology.
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This Week’s Gear Review
The Sabine Zoid Z-1000 is a clip-on tuner with a seven-octave range that will work with any stringed instrument. Features include a dual-color LCD display, automatic shut off to preserve battery life, and a flat-tune mode.
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Berliner Philharmoniker Revs Up Digital Concert Hall
Expanding its virtual reach, the Berliner Philharmoniker is streaming an entire live season at its Digital Concert Hall website, dch.berliner-philharmoniker.de, beginning August 28. In all, 33 concerts featuring Janine Jansen, Renaud Capuçon, Guy Braunstein, and Leonidas Kavakos, among others, are being caught by five high-definition cameras, streamed live, and archived for perusal at the discretion of subscribers with CD-quality audio. “For us, it’s the present, and for the other orchestras it will be the future” says principal cellist Olaf Maninger, who co-directs the project on the symphony’s media board. “If you want to have a media forum where you are actually able to be seen, then probably the Internet is one of the only ways.”
Though this offering may have been unthinkable just 15 years ago, the real miracle, Maninger says, was getting the guest artists, conductors, and their labels to sign on. “All the artists tour to promote their CDs, and in the end, the digital concert hall is another concert hall.” |
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Mahler Release
The San Francisco Symphony and music director Michael Tilson Thomas began recording the complete Mahler symphony cycle in 2001 and will release the project’s final album on August 25. The recording features Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and the Adagio from his unfinished Symphony No. 10. Although the two-disc set will not be available until the 25th, both pieces are available as pre-release downloads on iTunes and come with a bonus video featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the recording. sfsymphony.org |
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Twitter Opera
The Royal Opera House in London is working with composer Helen Porter to create an opera with a libretto made up entirely of lines submitted by the public to Twitter. “It’s the people’s opera. . . . Expect the unexpected,” Alison Duthie, head of ROH2, the arm of the ROH in charge of developing original projects, notes in a press release. “Who knows how the story will evolve, but get tweeting and you can play your part in your opera.” The opera, which will feature some familiar tunes in addition to new material, will be performed at the Deloitte Ignite festival in September, where laptops will be supplied so that audience members can tweet during the festival. twitter.com/youropera |
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The Whole World of Music
Other Minds, the San Francisco organization dedicated to the encouragement and propagation of contemporary music, has announced its 2009–10 season. From November 12–13, OM will present Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music, a two-day concert program exclusively featuring the music of this under-appreciated American composer. otherminds.org |
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