Jason Victor Serinus

Honoring Richard Beers at T.H.E. Show
NewsT.H.E. Show Newport 2016
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jun 08, 2016  |  3 comments
On the first night of the show, a standing-room-only assemblage of friends, associates, and supporters gathered in a huge, tented outdoor pavilion to bid adieu to Richard Lawrence Beers (July 26, 1949–January 26, 2016), co-founder of The Home Entertainment Show.
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T.H.E. Show Newport: Can It Really Be This Good?
T.H.E. Show Newport 2016
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jun 08, 2016  |  4 comments
Was it really possible that so many excellent sounding rooms, both large and small, could be located on a single floor?
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T.H.E. Show Newport: The Going Keeps Going Good
T.H.E. Show Newport 2016
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jun 07, 2016  |  1 comments
That so many of the 19 rooms I entered on the second floor of Hotel Irvine sounded really good is nothing short of a miracle…
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T.H.E. Show Newport's Amazing 2nd Floor
T.H.E. Show Newport 2016
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jun 06, 2016  |  0 comments
After the speakers totally disappeared, all that remained was truly glorious, open, clear, extremely seductive, and supremely musical sound…
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T.H.E. Show Newport Really Opens
T.H.E. Show Newport 2016
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jun 04, 2016  |  2 comments
Press Day, Schmess Day. Some people were ready, some were not…
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T.H.E. Show Newport Starts Friday!
NewsT.H.E. Show Newport 2016
Jason Victor Serinus  |  May 31, 2016  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2016  |  0 comments
T.H.E. Show Newport returns to its new venue at Hotel Irvine this Friday–Sunday, June 3–5, starting at 10am. By far the largest high-end consumer show on the West Coast of North America, T.H.E. Show promises 149 active exhibit rooms, with 19 of those big and even bigger than big rooms; 68 exhibit tables in the Marketplace and Marketplace foyer, including perhaps 16 headphone exhibitors in separate areas within the Marketplace. You can read the entire show guide here. . .
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Blowing the Lid off with Janácek
Jason Victor Serinus
Jason Victor Serinus  |  May 28, 2016  |  2 comments
If you're looking for unusual, viscerally thrilling music guaranteed to give your system a run for its money, then Leos Janácek's Glagolitic Mass is for you. Recorded in Norway last summer by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, conducted by Edward Gardner, this gargantuan mass is the centerpiece of Janácek Orchestral Works, Vol.3, a new, extremely well-recorded hybrid SACD from Chandos.
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Schubert's Glorious String Quintet Revisited
Jason Victor Serinus
Jason Victor Serinus  |  May 22, 2016  |  6 comments
No prosaic formal classification can begin to describe the universal embrace of life and death that is Schubert's final, posthumously published String Quintet in C major, D.956, which melds characteristically Viennese gemütlichkeit with far darker forebodings. . . Those who love Schubert's final quintet await every announcement of another recording or live performance that will hopefully take them closer to the essence of Schubert's genius. Which is, in some ways, what Quatuor Ebène and cellist Gautier Capuçon's new recording of the work for Erato does.
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Big Changes at Universal Music Group (Updated)
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Jason Victor Serinus  |  May 20, 2016  |  12 comments
Whoa! Am I reading this correctly? Has Universal Music Group, parent company of classical/jazz labels Deutsche Grammophon, Decca Records, Decca Classics, Mercury Classics, and distributed label ECM, really "deepened [its] commitment to jazz and classical music [and the] company's unwavering commitment to building upon its rich history in both genres" by announcing, on May 19, that it has lumped those US labels together with jazz label Verve under the new Verve Label Group? Note as well that it has also appointed Danny Bennett, the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning music, film, and TV producer who manages the career of his father, Tony Bennett, as the Verve Label Group's President & CEO.
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Auf Wiedersehen To Munich's Show of Shows
Munich 2016
Jason Victor Serinus  |  May 13, 2016  |  11 comments
Contrast this view, taken by Peter McGrath as we headed to dinner at show's end, with that of the mobbed staircase at the opening bell…
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