Order Now Based on my familiarity with her three brilliantly played and thought-provoking Delos albums, I looked forward greatly to Greek guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou’s November 19th concert at the Trianon Theatre in downtown San Jose, Ca. She did not disappoint, delighting a large crowd with a wide-ranging program which left no doubt that she is…
Sorry for the delay in getting my descriptions of Moscow’s mind-boggling Tretyakov State Gallery and Jewish Museum and Center for Tolerance blog-worthy. Both places are of such high quality and vastness of scope that I can do no more than give a sense of why you mustn’t miss either one if you ever make it…
Due to some mysterious celestial alignments in early November, I briefly found myself in Moscow at the same time as Delos’ two most significant figures, label director and pianist Carol Rosenberger and Constantine Orbelian, the San Francisco-born symphony and opera conductor who has been Delos’ pre-eminent talent scout in Eastern Europe for two decades. The…
Breakfast at 8 as yesterday but we came down to find Terry looking pretty grim. He hadn’t slept a wink and was weak and miserable. Unfortunately this has been a pattern with him in the last several years when traveling to Europe. The jetlag really affects him badly. When we were in France together in…
This fall, Delos will be releasing Tracy Silverman’s new recording Between the Kiss and the Chaos! Tracy Silverman is joining The Delos Insider during his European travels to perform with Terry Riley and the Terry Riley Trio. Bologna The flight to Europe is never something I look forward to, but there’s something about the toxic…
One of the joys of moving to a new area is the spate of unexpected surprises one is certain to encounter. For me, the new area is California’s sparsely populated and strikingly beautiful Central Coast. And a surprise, to be sure, was learning that the great Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) had deep connections…
My last full day in London was to be filled with other meetings, all of them pleasurable and/or surprising. First stop was to see our friends at Music Sales on Berners Street, the publishing group, and where several of us enjoyed a nice coffee and conversation. Next stop was to meet violinist Philippa Mo, one…
Wednesday was to be my busiest day, navigating greater London’s public transport system for several meetings, and my 6AM alarm shook me from a deep sleep. Waterloo Station in early morning is one mad place and makes Grand Central look a bit twee. As I was fighting upstream in a river of London-bound commuters, finding…
Briefly: what a day. April 23rd was one of those days I wish could be bottled and saved. It started, however, with sleeplessness. Mark and Gail have two dwarf hamsters that decided that 4AM was an ideal time to go wild on their wheel, climbing up and down their squeaky cage. Who would have thought…
Morning with my friends in Clerkenwell, breakfast and conversation. First stop in the day is a visit to the folks at Wildkat PR, who are promoting Klara Min’s Wigmore debut, and who happen to have new offices on Roseberry Ave, just a few blocks from Gail and Mark. Nice meeting with Kat Alder and her…
I write from a Caffe Nero just off Farringdon Road, before I pay a visit to the folks at Wildkat PR. It’s always satisfying to arrive in Europe early in the morning but I think I surprised my friends Gail and Mark – who are kind enough to host me for part of this trip…
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