Christian Baldini received a “Very Good” review for conducting
the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Buenos Aires from La
Nacion newspaper. The program was:
Alejandro Civilotti: Elegía por Julia Ponce
Sant-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Strauss: Don Juan
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections has given D. Kern
Holoman an award in excellence in “Historical Recorded Sound
Research in Classical Music” for his book Charles Munch (Oxford
University Press, 2012). The book features an
online appendix,Charles Munch—The Recorded Legacy,
which examines the expansive discography that the conductor was
responsible for.
San Francisco Classical Voice reviewed the first-ever entirely
percussion recital (“Carte Blanche”) at Music@Menlo, featuring UC
Davis’s own Chris Froh, with Ayano Kataoka and Ian Rosenbaum.
Valerio Morucci has won the 2013 Ingolf Dahl Award for his paper
“Secular Patronage at the Orsini Court: Music, Poetry, and the
Rhetoric of Early Monody,” from the Pacific Southwest Chapter of
the American Musicological Society.