Daily TV and radio guide Nov 6, 2009
5) String Quartet No. 14, with Alban Berg Quartet. NEWS & TALK SHOWS Morning Early Show at 7 a.m. on Chs. (Boston Globe)
A new addition to an old quartet Oct 23, 2009
He adds that most of the quartets with track records on a par with the Juilliard s - including the Guarneri and Alban Berg quartets - have disbanded in recent years. They reach the age that I am [68] and that [cellist] Joel Krosnick is and people want to retire. (Boston Globe)
Joe Maneri, at 82; legendary jazz musician, conservatory teacher Aug 28, 2009
He combined that with a grounding in theory, studying for more than a decade with the composer Josef Schmid, who had been a student of Alban Berg - himself a disciple of the composer Arnold Schoenberg. Combining that academic lineage with the rigors of jazz performance, Mr. Maneri gave students the courage to take on a new system of hearing and a new system of notation, Bergin said. (Boston Globe)
Recent highlights from the Ideas blog Jul 26, 2009
Because Mahler s influence can be heard in many composers who did, in one way or another, chronicle the horrors of the century that followed 1900: Alban Berg, Dmitri Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein, and others. In his lifetime, however, Mahler hardly seemed such a central figure: French composers dismissed him as German, Germans considered him to be Viennese and the Viennese either admired or detested him for being a Jew. (Boston Globe)
