James Helgeson @jshelgeson.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Happy International Women’s Day: youtu.be/7LgG9uj9S-w?...youtu.beKaija Saariaho: Orion | Christoph Eschenbach | SWR SymphonieorchesterYouTube video by Klassik | SWR Kultur 020
James Helgeson @jshelgeson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025www.bmj.com/content/388/...bmj.comAnger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research systemPeople around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change... 020
James Helgeson @jshelgeson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Here’s a piece I wrote on a commission from the Curtis Institute for their 100th, and for the amazing Ben Goldscheider, who plays it wonderfully here. 100 circumspect notes for 100 years. www.curtis.edu/100-for-100/...curtis.eduWestern Fronts (a) - Curtis Institute of MusicWestern Fronts (a) for solo horn was written for Ben Goldscheider and for Curtis’s 100th anniversary. The impetus for the… 010
James Helgeson @jshelgeson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Berlin (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), 26 January 2025, c. 1045 010
James Helgeson @jshelgeson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Brief trip to Murka (till the 30th) today. I find all of this unutterably sad. 010
James Helgeson @jshelgeson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Plus penser que dire Me convient souvent, Sans monstrer comment N'à quoy mon cueur tire. Faignant de soubzrire, Quant suis tresdolent, Plus penser que dire Me convient souvent. En toussant, souspire Pour secretement Musser mon tourment. C'est privé martire, Plus etc. Charles d’Orléans 110
James Helgeson @jshelgeson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Berlin (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), 17 January 2025, c. 1345 010
James Helgeson @jshelgeson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025More of Ming's marvellous playing (my 'Kegelstatt'--clarinet, viola, piano) trio, done this last spring in Berlin. The first, longer movement is quiet night music, and the second is faster and more mischievous, although they are closely related under the surface. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcId...youtube.comJames Helgeson Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano (2019)YouTube video by Mingzhe Wang 140
James Helgeson @jshelgeson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Excellent Mahler 1 at the Philharmonic tonight, with a new viola concerto by Donghoon Shin, and Lili Boulanger’s ‘D’un matin du printemps’. Tugan Sokhiev conducting. (Berlin.) 020
James Helgeson @jshelgeson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025youtu.be/hXajeIfBUTw?...youtu.beJames Helgeson, 'Aus einem April', for solo clarinet (2024)YouTube video by James Helgeson 150