by Paul E. Robinson

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Houston Symphony: Hans Graf, conductor

Jones Hall
Houston, Texas
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Symphony orchestras frequently mount “festivals” to package their wares more effectively, but I can’t remember ever coming across a [...]

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by Paul E. Robinson
In March 2009, I was a Guest Lecturer at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing, China. My audience was a class of young conductors. My lecture, titled “Stokowski: the Limits of Interpretation,” considered the many changes that Stokowski had made in the scores of the music he conducted and how [...]

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by Paul E. Robinson

George Szell: A Life in Music
by Michael Charry
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011
412 pages
One of the conducting icons of my youth was George Szell. I had the good fortune to live within a few hundred miles of his home base in [...]

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