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LINCOLN CENTER MOMENTS

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A music program reviving some memories that dementia has taken away. 

Many of us have relatives who are suffering from various forms of dementia.  There’s a program at Lincoln Center in New York called Lincoln Center Moments that has cognitive benefits for those suffering and helps them and their caregivers. It’s also open to those around the world via their virtual programs.

Katie Fanning, of the program says there are many examples of how the program has revived long dormant memories. 

 

Here are links to the items mentioned in the podcast.

Notes Of Deception – How a Quartet of American Musicians Outwitted the KGB

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The year was 1985 when members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB) went on a secret mission to what was then the Soviet Union.  The plan was to meet with the Refuseniks, Russian Jews, and smuggle information about them out of the country.  Dr. Merryl Goldberg was one of the four musicians on the trip, and she used a music cypher to get pass the KGB.  The entire adventure is now chronicled in the book Notes of Deception. 

Dr. Merryl Goldberg

Here is the link to the Cliburn International Competition for Conductors.

Expanding The Opera Canon With THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR

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The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr is historic.  It’s one of the few operas covering South Asian themes.  It centers on Laila Starr, the Avatar of Death living as a mortal in Mumbai, India.

It was created by composer Kamala Sankaram, and the librettist, Minita Gandhi via The New Works Initiative at the Minnesota Opera.

Hear how their backgrounds, talents and curiosity shaped The Many Deaths of Laila Starr.

Here are links to:

The One Ounce Opera Call for Composers
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on free Met Opera Tickets

Dudamel And Dale Making Music On Both Coasts

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Now that Gustavo Dudamel is holding the baton for the New York Philharmonic, the classical music community is all atwitter.  He says he’s not coming in to make changes, but changes will most likely come.  

And on the west coast, from whence he came there’s Dale Hikawa Silverman, a violist and the first Asian American woman at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  She tells stories of her 40-year career so far with the orchestra in her documentary DALE.

Here are the links to some stories mentioned in the podcast.

A Composer of Conscience and Thank Goodness for Music Librarians

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A soothing album as a balm for the ICE infested people of Minneapolis. 

Mozart’s newly discovered jam AND A newly discovered Ralph Vaughn Williams piece

This guy likes to play his piano outdoors

These are the links to other items mentioned in the podcast.

The Declaration Project

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We are just days away from the actual 250th birthday of America.  The music developed for this event just keeps coming.  Perhaps none as expansive as the Declaration Project from pianist Lara Downes. She created it to get various takes from anyone about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This national program will end with a concert at Lincoln Center in New York.   

Here are the links to other items mentioned in the podcast.

The OPERA Semmelweis Raymond Lustig

The NEW Album

Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis

Composer Chinary Ung stays close to his Cambodian Roots

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Composer Chinary Ung has been composing music for 60 plus years.  His compositions are heavily affected by his childhood in Cambodia and the deadly events that happened  there back in the mid 1970’s.  But he says he’s blessed that he was able to come to America in the 1960’s to study the western style of music. Many of his compositions will be performed at the Miller Theater at Columbia University School of the Arts in its Composer Portraits series on March 26th. 

Here are the links to the other events mentioned in the podcast.

Castle of our Skins – Two Positions

Misty Copeland on Timothée Chalamet

LA MAESTRA 2026

Composer Kaylen Prince of Houston

African Children’s Choir

The African Concert Series Celebrates Its 8th Season of African Classical Music.

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It took pianist Rebeca Omordia 8 years to create the African Concert Series in London.  She was even told that African classical music wasn’t really classical at all, nor would anyone want to listen to it. The series is very popular now.  So much so that Wigmore Hall in London has gifted Omordia a residency at the world class venue. 

Here are links to events mentioned in the podcast:

Timothée Chalamet & Matthew McConaughey

Cincinnati Pops Orchestra  album Harlem Renaissance

Toy Music Festival in Seoul

Teach Music Week

A Hero’s Life Meets The Old And The New With A World Premiere Recording

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Conductor and Music Director JoAnn Falletta of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra has fulfilled a dream.  She’s released A Hero’s Life.  The album has two pieces, one from Richard Strauss and another that’s a world premiere recording of Behzad Ranjbaran’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.  Falletta is also releasing another edition of her book of poetry, Love Letters to Music. This is in addition to the upcoming full length documentary about her nearly 30-year career at the Buffalo Philharmonic. 

Here are the links to events mentioned in the podcast. 

Denyce Graves Foundation Behind the Curtain and Sounds of Hope

Time To Act, the opera about school shootings at the Pittsburgh Opera.

The American Lyric Theater’s concert version of Tevye’s Daughters

The Word Network is airing celebration of life services live for Rev. Jesse Jackson.

It’s Primary season. The first one is/was March 3rd, 2026. Find out here when your state is holding its primaries.

Castrato Nicolo Grimaldi Gets His Due Via Randall Scotting

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When you think of countertenors what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? 

Randall Scotting, a countertenor, sees himself as a preserver of this unique male voice. He’s releasing the album Divine Impresario to celebrate one of the most popular castrato opera singers of the 17th and 18th centuries. His name is Nicolini.

 

Cancellations at the Kennedy Center continue even as the building is set to close for renovations.

The San Antonio (Texas) Philharmonic shuts down with hopes of returning someday.

Here are the links mentioned in the podcast for mentoring programs.

League of American Orchestras Applications now open for their Essentials of Orchestra Management program. 

The Pegasus Opera Company in London is looking for opera singers.