This Week in Classical Music
Joshua Bell
- CSO : Barenboim out, Haitink/Boulez in
- Cello Suites Written by Bach's Wife?
- Bell's Strad breaks in concert
It's KBAQ's "This week in classical music" --- an update on what's happening in the classical music world... I'm Randy Kinkel.
After 15 years as Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director, Daniel Barenboim is stepping down in June. The search for a replacement is ongoing, but in the meantime the Orchestra has tapped two other famous conductors to help out next season. One is Bernard Haitink, who will become principal conductor. Pierre Boulez will become conductor emeritus. Between them, they will lead 6-8 weeks of CSO Subscription concerts, a Carnegie Hall concert, and the orchestra's European appearances.
An Australian researcher claims that many of Bach's most famous works may have been written by his second wife, Anna Magdalena. Martin Jarvis, a professor at Charles Darwin University School of Music, has spent 30 years studying Bach's works and used police forensic science techniques and handwriting analysis to study manuscripts he believes were written by Anna Magdalena Bach rather than Johann Sebastian. Anna Magdalena was long thought to be Bach's copyist, but Jarvis believes she may have written the Bach cello suites, and had a hand in writing the first prelude of the well-tempered Clavier and the aria from the Goldberg Variations. Other Experts say it is possible that she refined, corrected and revised many of his compositions, but there is not enough evidence to show that she single-handedly composed the Cello suites.
Violinist Joshua Bell recently lived every violinist's nightmare-the bridge on his violin came loose during the first-movement cadenza of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto. Bell said, "While I was taking an up-bow, somehow my bow caught the bridge and sent it over about a centimeter on the violin, rendering it unplayable. I went offstage to try to put it back into place." Bell re-emerged a few minutes later to deliver a great performance of the rest of the concerto, after which the crowd cheered wildly.
For more information on these and other items and events, go to the KBAQ website at KBAQ.org. Be listening every week at this time for another update, and join me at noon every weekday for the Mozart Buffet, an hour of music by Mozart and his contemporaries, … I'm Randy Kinkel, for KBAQ's "This week in Classical Music", on 89-five KBACH, KBAQ phoenix, a service of rio salado college and Arizona State University.
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