Jonathan Rhodes Lee

Jonathan Rhodes Lee studied harpsichord in New York, San Francisco, and the Netherlands. He is the author of Film Music in the Sound Era  and he currently serves as Assistant Professsor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Articles By This Author

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PBO’s Head-Spinning Love Triangle

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - April 13, 2010

To say that Nicholas McGegan has earned an international reputation for his George Frideric Handel interpretations is a bit of an understatement. Indeed, the world actually seems to follow him wherever he goes, so long as he is traipsing hand-in-hand with Handel.

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Vivid Virtuosity With American Bach Soloists

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - April 8, 2010

If you enjoy being dazzled by virtuoso musical fireworks, then the upcoming program by the American Bach Soloists is surely designed with you in mind.

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Savall Scintillates With the PBO

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - March 8, 2010
Sunday evening at Berkeley’s First Congregational Church, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra treated an enthusiastic audience to a Francophilic romp through Europe, titled “The French Suite in Europe.” We started in Stockholm, of all places, with Guillaume Dumanoir’s 17th-century Suite du Ballet de Stockholm.
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Sublime “Passion”

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - March 1, 2010
The American Bach Soloists’ presentation of the 1725 version of Bach’s St.
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Brahms? A Bit Baroque?

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - January 26, 2010
On Valentine’s Day weekend, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will present an all-Brahms program, featuring the Russian virtuoso violinist Viktoria Mullova in the composer’s great D-major violin concerto. The association of this composer with this orchestra might raise some eyebrows: Doesn’t the B in the orchestra’s name stand for Baroque?
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Crowded Out of Eden: Composers and the Hollywood Dream

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - January 11, 2010
Film composer James Horner has been in the news a good deal lately. Horner is a versatile and experienced musician, with soundtracks as diverse as Star Trek II and Field of Dreams to his credit.

Harry Potter and the Classic Film Score

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - December 29, 2009
For the last couple of weeks, a musical debate has been raging on MuggleNet, the self-appointed “ULTIMATE Harry Potter Fansite.” Nicholas Hooper, the composer who scored the last two Potter films, announced to If Magazine on July 23 that he will not work on the final productio
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Philharmonia Dido Highlights Purcell Collaboration

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - November 9, 2009
“Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage, a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.”

With these words from the dedication to his Dioclesian, Henry Purcell invited future Englishmen to claim him as founder of a modern musical tradition.

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Harry Potter and the Classic Film Score

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - August 11, 2009
For the last couple of weeks, a musical debate has been raging on MuggleNet, the self-appointed “ULTIMATE Harry Potter Fansite.” Nicholas Hooper, the composer who scored the last two Potter films, announced to If Magazine on July 23 that he will not work on the final productio
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Alive Recording

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - May 11, 2009
When Baroque Nouveau’s new disc of Jean Philippe Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concert first came across my desk, a cursory glance down the playlist raised a perplexing question: Why did the group present the pieces out of order? There are five concerts in this collection, and the group orders them 4, 5, 1, 2, 3. Listening to the disc dispels any qualms with the arrangement.