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Laughter added to the vibe during the introductory welcome when VSO Board Chair Carol Van Natta jokingly noted that she wakes up to All Classical’s Warren Black, who was emceeing the concert. Then an audience member shouted “You’re not the only one!” Laughter from all http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/06/review-vancouver-symphony-delivers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-5591076645509887595Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:30:00 +00002026-06-06T20:10:42.003-07:00James Hewitt (1770-1827) Evgeny Mravinsky (1903-1988) Alan Shulman (1915-2002) Robert Merrill (1917-2004) Irwin Bazelon (1922-1995) Oliver Nelson (1932-1975) Anthony Braxton (1945) Cecilia Bartoli (1966) and Josef Sittard (1846-1903) Karl Valentin (1882-1948) Robert Anderson (1917-2009)http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/06/todays-birthdays_01114067274.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-6573101665335355887Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:08:00 +00002026-06-06T20:09:35.641-07:00František Jan Škroup (1801-1862) Charles Lecocq (1832-1918) Jan Peerce (1904-1984) Valerie Masterson (1937) Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999) Greg Sandow (1943) Lynne Dawson (1956) and Josephine Baker (1906-1975) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Larry Jeff McMurtry (1936-2021)http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/06/todays-birthdays_02068712579.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-5151547786870126841Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:30:00 +00002026-06-02T00:30:00.111-07:00James Cutler Dunn Parker (1828-1916) Felix Weingartner (1863-1942) Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Jozef Cleber (1916-1999) Samuel Jones (1935) Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012) Mark Elder (1947) Neil Shicoff (1949) Michel Dalberto (1955) and Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) and from The New Music Box: On June 2, 1938, Amy Beach began work on her Piano Trio while in residence at the MacDowell Colony. She http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/06/todays-birthdays_01512735816.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-8118068673361227718Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:35:49 +00002026-06-01T09:35:49.116-07:00Georg Muffat (1653-1704) Ferdinando Paër (1771-1839) Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) Werner Janssen (1899-1990) Percy Whitlock (1903-1946) Nelson Riddle (1921-1985) Yehudi Wyner (1929) Edo de Waart (1941) Richard Goode (1943) Frederica von Stade (1945) Arlene Sierra (1970) and John Masefield (1878-1967) Charles Kay Ogden (1889–1957) Albert Starr (1926-2024) Naguib Surur (1932-1978) Colleen http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/06/todays-birthdays.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-8346149484525940641Sun, 31 May 2026 23:59:57 +00002026-05-31T16:59:57.014-07:00Georg Muffat (1653-1704) Ferdinando Paër (1771-1839) Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) Werner Janssen (1899-1990) Percy Whitlock (1903-1946) Nelson Riddle (1921-1985) Yehudi Wyner (1929) Edo de Waart (1941) Richard Goode (1943) Frederica von Stade (1945) Arlene Sierra (1970) and John Masefield (1878-1967) Charles Kay Ogden (1889–1957) Albert Starr (1926-2024) Naguib Surur (1932-1978) Colleen http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_01725268329.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-2535937817048106126Sun, 31 May 2026 23:57:58 +00002026-05-31T16:57:58.967-07:00Marin Marais (1656-1728) Louise Farrenc (1804-1875) Billy Mayerl (1902-1959) Alfred Deller (1912-1979) Akira Ifukube (1914-2006) Shirley Verrett (1931-2010) Peter Yarrow (1938-2025) Bruce Adolphe (1955) Marty Ehrlich (1955) and Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Clint Eastwood (1930)http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_0873309125.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-1421884646553585655Sat, 30 May 2026 23:55:00 +00002026-05-31T16:57:01.535-07:00Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944) Jelly Aranyi de Hunyadvár (1893-1966) Benny Goodman (1909-1986) George London (1920-1985) Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012) Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) Zoltán Kocsis (1952) Anne LeBaron (1953) and Howard Hawks (1896-1977) Colm Toibin (1955) and from the New Music Box: On May 30, 1923, 26-year-old composer and conductor Howard Hanson, who would later be one of the http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_01128335655.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-2246439841474211614Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:00 +00002026-05-29T01:00:00.107-07:00My review of Verdi's Requiem as presented by Portland Opera has been published in Oregon Arts Watch here.http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/review-of-portland-opera-production-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-9178438950698165277Fri, 29 May 2026 07:30:00 +00002026-05-29T00:30:00.116-07:00Francesco Fanciulli (1853-1915) Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) Rudolf Tobias (1873-1918) Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) Helmuth Rilling (1933-2026) Michael Berkley (1948) Linda Esther Gray (1948) Melissa Etheridge (1961) and G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Steven Levitt (1967) and from the Composers Datebook: On http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_01669515156.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-3240713725951512166Thu, 28 May 2026 07:17:27 +00002026-05-28T00:17:27.586-07:00Thomas Arne (1710-1788) Josiah Flagg (1737-1795) Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914) Sir George Dyson(1883-1964) T-Bone Walker (1910-1975) Nicola Rescigno (1916-2008) György Ligeti (1923-2006) John Culshaw (1924-1980) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012) Richard Van Allan (1935-2008 Maki Ishii (1936-2003) Elena Souliotis (1943-2004) Levon Chilingirian (1948) and Thomas Moore http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_0415066086.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-3818942154392335956Wed, 27 May 2026 07:30:00 +00002026-05-27T00:30:00.113-07:00Jacques Halévy (1799-1862) Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882) Louis Durey (1888-1979) Claude Champagne (1891-1965) Ernst Wallfisch (1920-1979) Margaret Buechner (1922-1998) Thea Musgrave (1928) Donald Keats (1929-2018) Elizabeth Harwood (1938-1990) James Wood (1953) and Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876) Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) Rachel Carson (http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_0111986216.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-7527021848759914087Tue, 26 May 2026 19:56:33 +00002026-05-26T12:56:33.922-07:00Al Jolson (1886-1950) Eugene Goossens (1893-1962) Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) Vlado Perlemuter (1904-2002) Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin) (1916-1999) François‑Louis Deschamps (1919-2004) Peggy Lee (1920-2002) Joseph Horovitz (1926-2022) Miles Davis (1926-1991) Teresa Stratas (1938) William Bolcom (1938) Howard Goodall (1958) Armando Bayolo (1973) and Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837) Dorothea Lange (http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_0259438445.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-8241953223978096284Mon, 25 May 2026 07:30:00 +00002026-05-25T00:30:00.110-07:00Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins (1849-1908) Miles Davis (1926-1991) Beverly Sills (1929-2007) Franco Bonisolli (1937-2003) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) Raymond Carver (1938-1988) Jamaica Kincaid (1949) and from the Composers Datebook: On this day in 1944, Arturo Toscanini conducts the combined NBC Symphony and New York Philharmonic in a benefit concert of music http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_01492552688.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-6152910404157467403Sun, 24 May 2026 07:30:00 +00002026-05-24T00:30:00.109-07:00Paul Paray (1886-1979) Joan Hammond (1912-1986) Hans‑Martin Linde (1930) Maurice André (1933-2012) Harold Budd (1936-2020) Bob Dylan (1941) Konrad Boehmer (1941-2014) Fiona Kimm (1952) Paul McCreesh (1960) and William Trevor (1928-2016) Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) Declan Kiberd (1951) Michael Chabon (1963)http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_01363781717.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-4633612763954548225Sat, 23 May 2026 07:30:00 +00002026-05-23T00:30:00.108-07:00Andrea Luchesi (1741-1801) Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870) Louis Glass (1864-1936) Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) Artie Shaw (1910-2004) Jean Françaix (1912-1997) Alicia de Larrocha (1923-2009) Robert Moog (1934-2005) Joel Feigin (1951) and Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952) Jane Kenyon (1947-1995)http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_0459972835.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-8978946377339484535Sat, 23 May 2026 05:24:31 +00002026-05-22T22:24:31.239-07:00Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Johann Schrammel (1850-1893) Minna Keal (1909-1999) Sun Ra (1914-1993) George Tintner (1917-1999 Humphrey Lyttelton (1921-2008) Claude Ballif (1924-2004) John Browning (1933-2003) Peter Nero (1934-2023) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014) and from the New Music Box: On May 21, 1893, in an lengthy article http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_01213582911.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-3362588735743965180Thu, 21 May 2026 07:30:00 +00002026-05-21T00:30:00.110-07:00My review of last weekend's Oregon Symphony concert with guest conductor Matthais Pintscher and pianist Alessio Bax has been published in Classical Voice North America here.http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/review-of-oregon-symphony-concert-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-8075536151006430511Thu, 21 May 2026 07:30:00 +00002026-05-21T00:30:00.110-07:00Joseph Parry (1841-1903) Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904-1943) Gina Bachauer (1913-1976) Maurice André (1933-2012) Heinz Holliger (1939) Rosalind Plowright (1949) Linda Bouchard (1957) and Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) Robert Creeley (1926-2005)http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/todays-birthdays_01607626371.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-2431270524982550684Wed, 20 May 2026 15:27:56 +00002026-05-20T08:28:20.838-07:00 A few weeks ago, I was in Hawaii to review a Hawai'i Symphony concert. I had time to interview Dane Lam about concertos that featured Asian instruments. My conversation with Lam is now in The Strad online here.http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2026/05/article-about-dane-lam-and-hawaii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Bash)0