Not Dark Yet (but it's gettin' there)

"To My Daughter"

To My Daughter

I can't afford it, but...

...maybe you can.

I somehow found myself on the webpage of the Berlin Philharmonic. Then I found myself on their "Digital Concert Archive" page. It said to register for free and then some of the videos would be available free. I did so.

Turns out, the free ones are only interviews related to the main concert videos. Of course, you do get a free concert preview -- three minutes of brief excepts from the main concert videos. Looks like you can pay for various degrees of access to the main concert videos. Full access for one year is $185, which also includes some live concerts.

The videos are in superb filmic and sonic quality. It's the Berlin Philharmonic, for crying out loud!


Here's the main page link:

Berlin Philharmonic


Here's the link to the "Concert Hall" --

Concert Hall


Here's the link to the "Digital Concert Archive" --

Concert Archive

Brodsky -- language as encounter

from Lev Loseff's Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life 


Poetry was not something to be "gotten," mastered, and regurgitated in paraphrase. It was not something notched on the belt of attainments. It was, rather, a struggle waged in fear and trembling, an encounter with the very stuff of language that might put our core assumptions about existence into question.  

                                                                               – Sven Birkerts, a Brodsky student 

Brodsky in Venice

Shostakovitch & the Jerusalem Qt.

Wish I could be there to experience this. The Jerusalem String Quartet is a world-class ensemble.

Shostakovitch quartet cycle -- The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Skrowaczewski (Goteborg Symphony) on Bruckner

Skrowaczewski om Bruckner from Göteborgs Symfoniker on Vimeo.