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Celebrating Living Composers and their Individual Voices
Every once in a while – sometimes more often – I run into people who are adamant they don’t like contemporary music, period. Yesterday evening’s…
Author Archives: Barry Kempton
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These are a few of my favorite things
This past weekend was a busy one for The Schubert Club. But what a weekend! If ever there was need for evidence that I’m fortunate…
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Getting in the Competitive Spirit
(photo above: a group of competitors pose for a quick photo during the 2013 Competition Preliminaries) This coming Saturday sees our Student Scholarship Competition Finals…
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Thoughts on last week’s piano recital by Valentina Lisitsa
Those who attended Valentina Lisitsa’s recital at the Ordway on Tuesday of last week will have experienced a couple of unusual…
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The Schubert Club Letters Collection – How to Breathe Life Into Them
I’ve written before about presentations in The Schubert Club museum and our goal of bringing the museum to life. In the case of the instrument…
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The 14-15 Season
This past weekend, we announced the artists and ensembles performing in our International Artist Series and Music in the Park Series. We made a short…
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Audience Choice at the Next Schubert Club Recital
Our next recital at Ordway (Tuesday, March 11) features the Ukraine-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa. Her career has taken off in a big way in the…
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Staying out of the ruts
On Saturday evening Gidon Kremer and his magnificent chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica performed at the Ordway in our International Artist Series. …
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Words Fail Us
In last week’s blog, I mentioned a keynote address by Eric Booth at the Chamber Music America annual conference. One of the highlights of that…
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Chamber Music America Conference 2014
I’m writing this week’s post from New York City. I am attending the annual Chamber Music America (CMA) conference with colleague…
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Sold out concerts – a blessing or a curse?
Yesterday’s first-ever Schubert Club Mix concert at Aria in Minneapolis was sold out. To be fair, we (and presenting partner Liquid Music) were fairly confident…
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The Art of Collaboration
First of all, Happy New Year to everyone, and thank you for continuing to take an interest in this blog. If you had…