Archive for March, 2011

Not quite south of the border

Posted on Mar th, 2011 by Jeanne Golan

Just back from southern California, where I’d never been before.  Was wonderful to have three very different Ullmann offerings to make and have each be a confirmation that this music and its story will connect to any group of people in any number of circumstances.  The house concert for the Jewish Music Commission – I [ Read More ]

Did he know Bartok?

Posted on Mar th, 2011 by Jeanne Golan

The ‘even’ sonatas are all coming together.  Find myself consumed with No. 4 – so Bartokian, a quirky first movement, a slow movement that is one long slow-burn toward red-hot intensity, releasing into a three-subject fugue that weaves its themes in and around each other in impressively masterful and intriguing ways.  Very, very cool.  Have [ Read More ]