by Daniel Hathaway
HONORED:
Youngstown State University Dana School of Music has announced that its student Ryan Lamb has won the gold medal at the highly competitive Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival, held from August 9-12 at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan. Read the press release here.
INTERESTING READS:
The New York Times has published a story by Pam Belluck about cellist Joshua Roman (pictured) and his continuing struggle to recover from Long Covid. A native of Oklahoma City, Roman studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Richard Aaron and Desmond Hoebig, and was appointed principal cello of the Seattle Symphony at the age of 22.
Princeton University musicology professor Simon Morrison challenges long-standing notions about Pyotr Tchaikovsky in his Guardian article, Tchaikovsky was not tragic but had a Monty Python sense of humor.
“His biography has been shamefully distorted by scholars — almost in a way you could say is homophobic — because they represent him as a tortured gay man who was unhappy in his life and his love, and his music is thus reduced to the sound of suffering.
“But he wasn’t any of those things. He was successful, had a lot of love from family and friends, wealth, boyfriends, girlfriends. He really had quite a fabulous life.” [Read more…]
