Music

October 20, 2003 9:00 AM

Haunted organs and classical macabre

Brad Althoff, associate producer of Pipedreams, take listeners on a musical journey through classic Halloween and scary flavored music.

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October 20, 2003 9:00 AM

Interview with violinist Itzhak Perlman

He's one of the icons of modern-day Classical Music, a musician who's done the late-show circuit, first playing on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958 when he was just 13, won enough Grammy's to fill a wall-sized case and an individual performer in the mold of the great violinists who came before him. Itzhak Perlman was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, and since then has played with all the major orchestras of the world, giving thousands of concerts with orchestras or with a piano accompanist, solo on stage. Mr. Perlman was in the Twin Cities on October 21, 2003 to play a recital at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, the opening concert of the Schubert Club's International Artist Series. Accompanied by pianist Rohan da Silva, he played a program of Bach, Beethoven and Poulenc.

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October 17, 2003 4:25 PM

Sherwin Linton is cool country

As far as country music goes, Sherwin Linton of Coon Rapids is the real deal. You can hear it in his deep South Dakota drawl and see it in his cowboy boots and fringed suede jacket. Linton, 64, can't remember a day when he wasn't in love with country, or western music as it was called back in his youth. He's performed from coast to coast, appeared on TV, written radio hits and done the Nashville/Grand Ole Opry circuit. Linton was country before country was cool, as the slogan goes. Linton brings his country caravan to the Midwest Country Theater in Sandstone, Minnesota, this Sunday night, in support of his new CD, It Happened in America. On Monday night, he plays at the Fine Line Music cafe in Minneapolis.

by Chris Roberts

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September 18, 2003 5:00 AM

Minnesota Orchestra hoping to learn from its mistakes

The Minnesota Orchestra is celebrating its centennial year with its new music director, Osmo Vänskä, finally in place. He is the orchestra's 10th music director and like others, he will be compared with his predecessors. Some critics say they hope the orchestra doesn't repeat mistakes made when it appointed Eiji Oue as music director.

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September 12, 2003 10:09 AM

Country singing legend Johnny Cash dies

Johnny Cash, "The Man in Black" who became a towering figure in American music with such hits as "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line" and "A Boy Named Sue," died Friday. He was 71. Cash died of complications from diabetes that resulted in respiratory failure, according to his manager. Cash died at a Nashville hospital early this morning.

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September 11, 2003 5:00 AM

Vanska begins new era for Minnesota Orchestra

Osmo Vänskä will lift the baton for the first time Thursday night as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. The Finnish conductor arrives as the orchestra celebrates its centennial. Vänskä's opening concert at Orchestra Hall will feature works by Neilsen, Rachmaninoff, and Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Vänskä says he realizes he has to live up to many expectations.

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August 22, 2003 10:45 AM

Dissension at Minnesota Orchestra over new president

A significant board member and supporter of the Minnesota Orchestra Association has resigned over the search process for its new president. This week the orchestra announced it has chosen Tony Woodcock to replace outgoing president David Hyslop. The new music director, Osmo Vänskä, appears to have played a controversial role in the selection process.

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August 15, 2003 8:00 AM

Songs from the Tallgrass Prairie

A bit of Americana is on stage at a Center for the Arts in Fergus Falls. Songs From the Tallgrass Prairie is a musical created by Los Angeles songwriter Randy Hale.

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August 8, 2003 11:56 AM

Understanding the changing voice

Adolescent boys pose a real challenge for choir directors. Their changing voices are difficult to place in a choir. At the beginning of year a young man may be an alto, a few months he could be a tenor. The time in between can be awkward and uncomfortable for young singers. A group at St. John's University in Collegeville is spreading the word about the science of changing voices.

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August 3, 2003 9:00 AM

Music@Menlo music festival, 2003

The brainchild of a pair of dynamic musicians: pianist Wu Han and her husband cellist David Finckel. They'd had a longstanding dream to create a chamber-music celebration that embraced students, an eager audience, and an A-list of performers from around the world. They found the perfect site a half-hour south of San Francisco, in the city of Menlo Park, California, and last August opened their doors. Over the course of the festival's three weeks, critics, performers, the organizers, everyone remarked on the strikingly high level of execution. Audiences, though, spoke loudest about this event: Californians lined up by the hundreds to get in, many were turned away at the door.

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