Yes, it’s true. This group of musicians made instruments out of fresh vegetables! So awesome.

This introspective and honest article by Benjamin F. Carlson has been floating around the classical music community over the past week. For obvious reasons, classical people get really excited when someone from “the outside” gives us a nod and says our music is good, too. That aside, the article is a good read for anyone [...]

DYK? The band Phoenix wrote Lisztomania in honor of composer Franz Liszt‘s studly awesomeness. That was yesterday’s weekly classical trivia text message. I thought it only apropos to follow up and post the video on our site! Here’s Lisztomania by Phoenix (yes, it was featured on Gossip Girl, too): And that isn’t where “Lisztomania” ends, [...]

On June 17 we’re coming to Citizen Space in San Francisco! Please join us for a fun-filled evening of beautiful summer-themed classical music along with networking and merry-making. Who: You and your peeps. What: Salon97 Summer Soiree Where: Citizen Space: 425 – 2nd Street, #100 (near Harrison) San Francisco, CA 94107 When: Thursday, June 17, [...]

The New York Philharmonic recently presented an innovative production of Ligeti‘s Le Grand Macabre. To accompany this brilliant show, the NY Phil’s marketing department put together a series of behind-the-scenes flip cam videos. So many times we wonder what it takes to put together the wonderful concerts we attend, and thankfully, the New York Phil [...]

We had a new guest at our “Terrible Twos” celebration on Saturday, Chloe Veltman, a musician and freelance culture correspondent for the New York Times. A few days later, Chloe wrote me to ask if we’d submit a guest post for her blog, Lies Like Truth, with the ArtsJournal network of cultural blogs. We are [...]

It’s this Saturday! On Saturday, May 15 at 3:00 p.m., we’ll gather in San Francisco to commemorate two years of community-based classical music-loving shenanigans with a playlist of audience favorites, birthday cake, fabulous people, and super fun times. We hope you’ll join us! For location details, please email cariwyl@salon97.org.

Claude Debussy, a composer at the forefront of French Impressionism, wrote some awesome preludes and many other great Composer of the Week-worthy pieces! b. August 22, 1862 d. March 25, 1918 A prominent and very talented French composer at the turn of the 20th century, Claude Debussy’s iconic compositions bridged Late Romantic Era music with [...]

Late last week a member of the Salon97 community sent me a link to: http://wwww.inbflat.net/ This site is so cool that I wish I could embed the whole thing into this post. Basically, it’s a page constructed of several YouTube videos. Each is a video of someone playing a tune in B flat. They all [...]

Two of the top searches that drove internet surfers to the Salon97 site in the past couple weeks included the following: “classical music” and “what is so great about it.” I was pretty surprised to see this, but I also saw this as a great opportunity to make a top 10 list of things that [...]