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Classical music: This year’s virtual Bach Around the Clock proved a 10-day success. Here is a news update with a date for 2021
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By Jacob Stockinger
The Ear has received the following message from artistic director and violist Marika Fischer Hoyt (below top) about this year’s virtual Bach Around the Clock and the dates for next year’s festival when amateur and professional musicians will again celebrate the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Greetings! I hope this finds you well and finding ways to maintain equilibrium in these tumultuous times.
I’d like to thank you all again for making our 10-day 2020 Virtual Festival (one example is in the YouTube video at the bottom) such a success.
After the sad cancellation of our in-person festival, it was wonderful to see so many of you playing and singing Bach! It reminded me of the Dr. Seuss book; the COVID Grinch may have stolen the trappings of our festival, but we just held it anyway! (Below are members of the Suzuki Strings from a previous BATC festival.)
With the summer over, the BATC board of directors is looking ahead to next year’s festival, which will take place on Saturday, March 20, 2021. We don’t yet know what format it will take — whether in-person, virtual or some combination — but we will explore all available options.
If you have suggestions, please contact us.
Meanwhile, with so many concerts canceled, I hope you can find other ways to include music in your lives. I’ll continue posting Bach-related articles and performance links on our Facebook page.
If you have the means, please consider donating to artists and ensembles whose livelihoods have vanished for the foreseeable future.
Thank you again for being part of the BATC community, and please take care.
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Classical music news: GRAND OPERA on a SMALL SCREEN? How well does Apple’s new iPad 3 and the Metropolitan Opera’s new mobile subscription archive app work? Here are the results of a test run.
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By Jacob Stockinger
I stopped by the nearby Apple store of Friday. It’s always a fun place to go. I love the gadgets and I love the service.
This time I just wanted to check out some slick laptop bags for an upcoming trip – which it turns out, they don’t carry anymore. Just my luck.
But even early in the day the place was packed with people lined up and even sitting down outside and waiting.
“Are you looking for an iPad,” I was asked as I entered the store.
“Not yet,” I said, and went about my business.
But clearly Apple – which took such a ribbing, a real drubbing, about the name when the first iPad was announced – is having the last laugh
And it is a big, hearty and very profitable last laugh — now that it is already on there third model of the device, iPad 3 (below), which is supposed to have super-sharp screen resolution as well as many more features.
Everybody wants in on the fun, it seems.
And that includes the Metropolitan Opera, which has revamped it mobile subscription app to work with iPads.
So, just how does GRAND opera look and sound on a SMALL screen and SMALL sound system?
You can check out a convincing an detailed test run by the perceptive and creative blogger extraordinaire Anastasia Tsioulcas (below), of NPR’s “Delayed Cadence” blog, via this link:
But I would like to know and hear your thoughts on the matter.
Have any Well-Tempered Ears – and Eyes — out there tried the new Met app on an iPad?
How did it work?
What do you think?
Does the model of the iPad matter?
The Ear wants to hear.
And so, I suspect, do the Met and Apple.
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