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Nov 06
A Blast from the Past | Part Two
A Blast from the Past| Part Two Stravinsky and Strauss Since my last post, I have been going through the video archive of the NRK that feature the Oslo Philharmonic of my era (1983 -1998) and was able to come up with several that were of more than passing interest to me. The archive included …
Nov 01
A Blast from The Past | Viewing Concert Videos from the Past
A Blast from the Past| Viewing Concert Videos from the Past The Back Story During my fifteen or so years with the Oslo Philharmonic, part of each season was devoted to making radio and TV recordings for the Norsk Riks Kringkasting (Norwegian Radio and Television Broadcasting – NRK for short) as part of the government …
Sep 18
My Musical Career | Part Thirty-Four
The Year 1987 – I begin to use calf heads As I mentioned in the last three blog posts, the year 1987 was a pivotal year for both the Oslo Philharmonic and for me. 1987 saw the emergence of the orchestra onto the international music scene through its tours to Italy and Spain in the …
Aug 04
My Musical Career| Part Thirty-Three
My Musical Career | Part Thirty-Three The Year 1987 – Part Three As I mentioned in the last two blog posts, the year 1987 was an extremely busy year musically for me and for the orchestra that I had the honor to be a part of. Our 1987 US tour was the subject of the …
Jul 11
My Musical Career| Part Thirty-Two
My Musical Career|Part Thirty-Two The Year 1987 – Part Three Our First USA Tour – Part One The year 1987 was indeed a pivotal year in so many ways, as I pointed out in the last two blog posts. So much happened that year, that in the recounting of events, I have …
May 26
My Musical Career|Part Thirty-One B
My Musical Career | Part Thirty-One B 1987 – A Pivotal Year – Part Two In my last post, I related many of the events of the year 1987 which was indeed a pivotal year for both myself and the orchestra. The orchestra changed recording labels and increased their recording activity three-fold and made the …
Apr 24
My Musical Career|Part Thirty-One
My Musical Career|Part Thirty-One 1987|A Pivotal Year – Part One Looking back over my musical life, 1987 now seems to be on of the pivotal years for both the orchestra and myself. There were several such years – 1984 – when the orchestra began recording the Tchaikovsky series for Chandos, and we began …
Mar 20
The EMI Recordings 1987|Part Two
The EMI Recordings 1987| Part Two Shostakovich and Svendsen In the previous post, The EMI recordings 1987|Part One, I wrote about how the OPO and Mariss made the transition from recording for Chandos to recording for EMI and wrote in some detail about our first EMI recording, an album of Tchaikovsky …
Mar 11
My Musical Career | Part Thirty
My Musical Career | Part Thirty Short Tours with the Orchestra – 1986 While most of the tours that the orchestra undertook during my fifteen years with the ensemble were of two weeks or more duration, there were several shorter ones of shorter duration that were quite notable. I’ll devote this blog post to three …
Feb 20
The EMI Recordings|1987-1997| Part One
The EMI Recordings | 1987-97|Part One In my previous blog posts devoted to the recording activities of the Oslo Philharmonic during my tenure, I concentrated, naturally enough, on the recordings we made for Chandos Records LTD, of Colchester, England. These consisted of the complete symphonies of Tchaikovsky, the 9th Symphony of Anton Bruckner, and …
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