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The Kronos Quartet has played a significant role in the Philharmonic Society’s pursuit of new work. They have been with us countless times, including performances of Alfred Schnittke’s beautiful piano quintet with the composer’s widow Irina as pianist, Ghost Opera by Tan Dun, Terry Riley’s Sun Rings and the West Coast premiere of Henryk Górecki’s Third String Quartet. In 1999, Kronos performed

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During the early days of my music career, I was a buyer for a chain of music stores in Texas called Brook Mays Music Company. I bought reeds, mouthpieces, guitar strings, band instruments, metronomes, every instrument imaginable and banjos. Yes, banjos. Everyone had to have one. The movie Deliverance was in the theaters, and the public went wild for the dueling banjos. I never caught the fever.

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Midori is, of course, the name of one of our most cherished violinists and also the Japanese word for green. In this spirit, I found a passage in her website that demonstrates that she is a “green” violinist as well. She writes: "My violin is very sensitive to weather and dryness in the air, so I've found that hanging just-washed wet towels is a handy trick to add moisture to the air instead of

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El Dude has arrived with an extremely eclectic LA Phil program which will be followed by our annual gala (which we are not calling a gala). It is “Celebration Gustavo!” chaired by Marsha Anderson. Thanks, Marsha! Thanks also to Deborah Borda, President and CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, and Elizabeth Segerstrom for being our honorary chairs. All would appear well, despite the

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Celebrating the Liszt year with Victor Borge.  Please enjoy!

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The Laguna Beach Music Festival strikes up again Monday, February 7. The very cool Brooklyn Rider quartet is in residence with assisting artists Shakuhachi master Kojiro Umezaki, kamancheh (Persian fiddle) player Kayhan Kalhor, and others. There are programs all week. Consult lagunabeachmusicfestival.com for all of the details. I will be participating in a new festival offering called Music

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Oh, please!  Enough! Yes, it’s another video musical phenomenon that I somehow feel the need to force upon you.  In this clip, the composer is far more talented than the soloist though probably not as cute.  I have written about Beethoven and Liszt recently so it’s now OK to have a bit of fun.  For most of my life I have been hooked on phonics, now I’ve added youtube to my addictions.  I know I

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As we enter the New Year, I would like to thank all of you for your continued support, and on behalf of the Philharmonic Society, we wish you a prosperous and music-filled year! 2011 marks the 200th birthday anniversary of beloved composer Franz Liszt. As extensive as his compositions were, it was the piano that gave him his opportunity for greatness. Therefore, the Society is pleased to present

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The New Year is upon us.  I am renewing the pledges of numerous 2010 resolutions.  Will this be the year that I get an iPhone, BlackBerry or some such?  The Philharmonic Society staff has been badgering me to procure one of these devices for some time and I have stubbornly refused.  I may relent in 2011.   I have always been behind the curve of these new developments.  Techno-peasant though I am,

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Liszt, Louis Lortie, and Beethoven 2011 is the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt. Last year belonged to Chopin and Schumann and I felt I must give Mr. Liszt his due. As extensive as his compositions are, we felt that it was the piano that gave him his opportunity for greatness; therefore, we have invited Louis Lortie to perform the composer’s most monumental work—Années de Pèlerinage (Years of

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The Vienna Philharmonic is in the news again.  The ladies of the orchestra now have new concert attire – pinstriped pants and a long black blazer over a white blouse and gray gilet.  According to the Associated Press, the outfit was designed by Markus Binder, a 22-year-old fashion student.  There are plans to come up with something similar for the males.  You can see the new outfits on

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One of the delights of the holiday season is the proliferation of performances of music, dance and theater.  We were very happy with a new musical at the Laguna Playhouse which runs through Christmas Eve.  It is “Daddy Long Legs,” book by John Caird and music/lyrics by Paul Gordon.  It has a cast of two with Megan McGinnis and Robert Adelman Hancock, a pair of wonderful actors singers with

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A couple of weeks ago, we attended a reception and concert at the Barclay which was a tribute Marjorie Rawlins.  Marge passed away May 2009.  She was a major benefactor of the UCI School of Music and the Philharmonic Society.  She was a great music lover.  I miss our many conversations about music, especially string and chamber music.  Many a confit de canard passed her lips (and mine as well) at

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Having a cosy Sunday afternoon, staying out of the rain and warm by the fire.  JC Bach Symphonies (all of them one after the other) are playing on the stereo, and duck is on tonight's menu.  Kaly is stuffing the breast with garlic, crushed fennel seeds, fresh chopped rosemary, grated Parmesan, olive oil, salt and Tellicherry pepper.  Later, it will be pan seared and finished in the oven.  She

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If you have had a tough week, please enjoy this. There are always good things going on somewhere.

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Hey Culture Vultures! Here is something for all of you who can’t enough classical music. It’s called SymphonyCast from American Public Media. Just click on the link to check it out. This weekly audio program features a variety of orchestras such as the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw and our own Los Angeles Philharmonic. You get a full concert hosted by Brian Newhouse. It

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With the transition from election commercials to Christmas ads on television, it is a sure sign that the holidays are almost upon us. Leave to the chorus of the Philadelphia Opera Company to usher the season in with style. Many of you have seen their Brindisi flash performance. Now they are singing Hallelujah. I think it again proves that music makes people happy, at least in Philadelphia.

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With all of the events of our JapanOC, the one that will be the first sell out will be Jake Shimabukuro.  Check him out at Central Park playing a ukulele cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by George Harrison of the Beatles. Are we going to have fun or what?!! Please enjoy.

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The Rite of Spring will be a hundred years old in 2013.  It’s hard to believe.   We will be making a big deal about it.   I remember back to the opening concerts of Disney Hall after a performance of the Rite, a women was complaining to me about Salonen playing those crazy new pieces.  I responded that the Rite is not all that new.  The only person in the hall that night that was alive when it

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One of our dedicated board members sent me this clip with a question and a wonderful answer:What makes music beautiful?Music makes people beautiful. Check to see if you think he is correct.  Watch the following.  Please enjoy.

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Great article on conductor Daniel Harding in the Wall Street Journal: How He Has Grown  From his early 20s, British conductor Daniel Harding has had the privilege of honing his considerable talent with many of the world's best orchestras. Mentored by prominent maestros Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado, the 35-year-old musician enjoys a blue-chip career in Europe, regularly appearing as guest

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Remarks from the Dean Corey, Artistic Director:Last night’s concert by the wonderful Dresden Staatskappelle Orchestra concluded with an encore of Weber’s Overture to Der Freischutz, which could mean Free Protection, Free Shooter or The Poacher or Something for Nothing.  There was other poaching or attempts at poaching going on in the concert hall besides the music from the stage.  It is a natural

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Back in the spring of 2009 I saw a wonderful play in New York about Beethoven starring Jane Fonda. It was called 33 Variations, written and directed by Moisés Kaufman. It was the story of a terminally ill musicologist racing against her own mortality trying to solve the riddle why Beethoven wrote 33 variations of Anton Diabelli’s insipid little waltz when he was only commissioned to write a

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At the Philharmonic Society’s opening concert on October 27 we are honoring the volunteers of the Society’s Philharmonic Committees. These wonderful people raise the money, organize and implement the 1,400 or so youth programs we present each season. They have been doing this a long time. The kids who attend our concerts for fifth graders now are the grandkids of the children that attended our

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I am very enthused about the recent activities at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. They are thinking outside the box, more accurately, outside the hall. First there was Peter Pan in a tent, a must-see especially if you have children. While that was going on, Project Bandaloop was doing a vertical dance on the side of Segerstrom Hall to the thrill of thousands of free attendees 100 feet

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We just returned from our little house in Gascony, France. Nice and quiet. We are close to the village of Trie-sur-Baȉse. I was informed quickly after mispronouncing this little town’s name, that care must be taken saying the umlauted ȉ as "bah-eez", otherwise a faux pas results. A PG-13 example would be the Parisian phrase for overnight bag baise-en-ville which literally means “make whoopi in

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We have a winner in our name Dean’s Blog contest. You guessed it. It is my wife Kaly. Favoritism aside, she came up with the logical one – Please Enjoy! – the valedictory of my Philharmonic Society letters. Because she gets to sit with her husband at the Vienna Philharmonic performance in March, I am happy to announce that four runner-up entries in the contest. We have a winner in our name

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The situation at the OC Register for Tim Mangan is very frustrating. He has been given the People section, dramatically reducing his time to devote to classical coverage. He is one of our country’s finest music critics working in a county that has a rich supply of classical music performances, many very significant. I guess we should be grateful that he still has a job. What I don’t understand

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On our ever expanding list of must watch films is Temple Grandin. Saw it last night. Claire Danes is the title character who is autistic and becomes an influential pioneer in the development of more humane treatment of cattle in livestock farms and slaughter plants, certainly important for foodies who, or need to develop, respect for what they eat.. I was not only bowled over by Claire Danes'

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As a new season is soon to be upon us, I am reflecting on this year 2010 and remembering the great personalities that have left us, people that meant a great deal to me and the music world in general. Ernest Fleischmann died in June. He was one of the true giants of our classical music business. He has been eulogized by some of the best music chroniclers of our time. When I first came to

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To wrap up our summer Philharmonic Society festival trip, we finished in London with a couple of plays – Warhorse and Pricilla, Queen of the Desert - and the opening night of the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with a performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Here is a clip of that performance:Youtube has disabled the embedding for this second video I want to share with you, so here is a link to

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Glyndebourne is the ultimate opera theme park. You are in beautiful East Sussex, 50 miles south of London, in countryside with fields of sheep, herds of deer, rolling downs and the occasional fox. Glyndebourne has superb productions in wonderful acoustics, dining at the long interval either in one of the restaurants or at a meadow picnic, and people- watching the fascinating, British opera goers,

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Our Aix group also enjoyed a performance of Gluck’s Alceste conducted by our friend Ivor Bolton who has brought his Mozarteum Orchestra to us a couple of times. Soprano Véronique Gens was Alceste. What a gorgeous sound and superb acting! Here is sample of her remarkable voice as she sings Fauré’s beautiful Après en rêve (After a Dream). This was my first time to hear her live. Do you know of her

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Saw two amazing performances. The first was an evening of Stravinsky’s music staged by the genius Robert Lepage called "Le Rossignol e autre fables" (The Nightingale and other tales). LePage used finger puppets, mimes and even put the orchestra on the stage and flooded the orchestra pit where the action took place. Here is a video of Le Rossignol production we saw (click on the 3rd diamond in the

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At the beginning of August, the Philharmonic Society started the contest below to name my blog. The deadline is August 31 and the winner will get two tickets to the performance at of the Vienna Philharmonic at the Renée and Henry Concert Hall on March 3, 2011. Good luck. Let us hear from you!!CONTEST: NAME DEAN'S BLOG!We need your help to name Dean's blog! Can you come up with something fun

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While in Aix, our group took a cooking class at La Villa des Chefs given by one star Michelin chef René Berger. It was a blast.Among other wonderful ingredients, we used Limousin beef. This is an animal native to France from around the Limoges region. The breed is 20,000 years old and is portrayed in a number of prehistoric cave paintings. We have eaten it in Paris at Le Severo, the place for

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We just came back from a festival trip in Europe with some of our Philharmonic Society patrons, something we try to do every summer. The festival in Aix-en-Provence is very cool. The town is fun. Hanging out in anyone of the cafes along the Cours Mirabeau is the thing. Sipping wine, sampling the local cuisine is what you do along with people watching. Jessica Alba walked into our restaurant.

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I have started a blog. This is my first entry. I going to write about one of the things I like to do best which is to experience new pieces of music, performers, food and wine. Discovering new musical talent is a big part of my job. The music and the food come along with the territory. I am rather obsessive about it all and I hope that you will join in.As a young orchestra musician I was

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