Author Archive for toccataartists
Robert Crowe Guest Blog on The Opera Stage
Explore Toccata artist Robert Crowe has penned a guest-blog for the site, The Opera Stage. Read the excerpt below, and continue reading on TheOperaStage.com and…
A Birthday Present for Ronald Stevenson — by James Reid Baxter
This Friday, 6 March, Ronald Stevenson will celebrate his 87th birthday. In a different world, or even just a different country, one where human life…
Tully Potter on the Tully Potter Collection
Tully Potter is not only the author of the massive Toccata Press biography of Adolf Busch (currently out of print but undergoing preparation for a…
David O’Brien — Dreams Come True: Recording my Grandfather’s Orchestral Music
On Monday, 4 August, one hundred years to the day after the start of the first World War, I found myself flying via Frankfurt on…
Tim Collins Reporting from Lillehammer: Celebrating Leif Solberg’s 100th Birthday
If the name of the small town of Lillehammer in Norway rings any bells for you, it is probably as the site of the 1994…
John Kinsella: A Tale of Two Symphonies
My Symphonies Nos. 5 and 10 were premiered eighteen years and a millennium divide apart, in 1994 and 2012. They were also written in very…
Orlando Jacinto García — A Project Realized: Three Orchestral Works on Toccata Classics
My new Toccata Classics CD is a labor of love and, as with many such projects, came together through the support of a number of…
Paul Mann: Solberg Sessions — A Report from Liepāja
Tucked away on the west coast of Latvia is the town of Liepāja, home to fewer than 100,000 people, but boasting an especially fine orchestra,…
Stefan Koch: Why Richard Stöhr Has Nearly Taken Over My Musical Life
Greetings to fans of Toccata Classics. If you are reading this blog posting, hopefully you are either listening to my new recording of Richard Stöhr’s…