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• Genes Dont Make You Racist

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  A question that came up in a recent discussion I had, regarded whether humans are genetically predisposed to racism? Or being more scientifically nuanced about it: Whether humans possess an evolutionary "readiness" to fear and possibly dislike people who are different from themselves? Evolutionary preparedness to ...
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• Free Albums Galore » Bloch – Violin Concerto

  
  DEEPGOA's Electronic Sessions — Authority: 506
  Ernest Bloch is a Swiss born American composer most noted from his use of Jewish traditional and liturgical music in his compositions. His music is derived from Late Romantic and Impressionistic influences yet his liberal use of Jewish themes and motifs makes him stand out in 20th century music. ...
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• Berlin Philharmonic by way of the World Wide Web

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  Want to see the Berlin Philharmonic this week at Disney Hall, but finding the tickets limited and pricey? Wish that Hulu could stream Rachmaninoff along with “30 Rock”? In either case, the Berliners, who appear tonight and Tuesday at Walt Disney Concert Hall, have the solution at what they call their Digital ...
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• LSO/Harding | Classical

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Barbican Hall, London The argument about whether Mahlers No 10 Symphony should be granted full equality with the other nine ought to be old hat now. The tenth is a score completed by others from the composers detailed drafts. If Mahler had lived, his final symphony would, of course, have been different. But the ...
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• Lady Magnesia/Requiem | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Hope University/Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool The Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg was close to Shostakovich – they shared the same Moscow apartment block. But that proximity was not enough to save him from obscurity: the short opera Lady Magnesia and grand choral Requiem presented by the Royal Liverpool ...
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• Sneak preview: Bronfman and Bartok, dynamic duo at the symphony

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 809
  Yefim Bronfman plays Bartok with the Oregon Symphony in a concert you dont want to miss.
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• St. Lawrence Quartet gives local premiere of John Adams’ String Quartet

  
  The Arts Blog — Authority: 134
  CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW SLIDE SHOW REVIEW: The St. Lawrence String Quartet offers blisterting late Beethoven and a new work by John Adams. The Orange County Register , Nov. 23, 2009. SEE SLIDE SHOW The St. Lawrence String Quartet made a meal out of a heavy duty program Sunday afternoon in Samueli Theater. It was ...
  11 hours ago

• BEST CLASSICS 100

  
  WeLove-music — Authority: 138
  CD 1 – UPLIFTING CLASSICS CD 2 – RELAXING CLASSICS CD 3 – VOCAL CLASSICS CD 4 – GOLDEN CLASSICS CD 5 – FAVOURITE CLASSICS CD 6 – SPIRITUAL CLASSICS An introduction to the world of classical music featuring 100 of the world’s best loved classical music recordings. These 6 CDs contain over seven ...
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• Monster Mash: LACMAs red ink; Charlie Chaplin museum in Switzerland; Galileos fingers

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  -- Financial trouble : LACMA loses 23% of its investments in the last fiscal year. One victim is Jeff Koons dangling train project, which was scheduled to arrive at LACMA in 2011-12, and is now delayed for three more years. ( Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg ) -- Little tramp : A long-planned museum dedicated to ...
  14 hours ago

• Loving Söderström

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The Swedish soprano was not just a great singer and actor, but a remarkable woman The newspaper obituaries of opera singers, which are invariably written by anorak-coated music critics, too often take a standard and not very interesting form. Born. Studied with. Made debut as. First appeared in this country as. Much ...
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• WHAT IS AN EVANGELICAL ARMINIAN?

  
  Classical Arminianism — Authority: 127
  Calvinist Michael Hortons article, "Evangelical Arminians: Option or Oxymoron?", written in 1992 and still promoted on The White Horse Inn website (as of November 22, 2009), suggests that the words evangelical and Arminian cannot be used in connection with one another. Let us investigate the article as it stands ...
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• Mike Tyson: Requiem for His Opponents

  
  hipsterwave — Authority: 431
  Can’t say that we’re into boxing since we don’t ever watch it. The closest we came to boxing is that most of us are from the Nintendo generation, so we grew up with the awesome game Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! . It’s no secret that Mike Tyson was a boxing legend, but in large part, the reason we love this ...
  21 hours ago

• Music Review | Cameron Carpenter: A Showman of the Organ Pulls Back the Curtain

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Cameron Carpenter brings flamboyance and unorthodox style to the organ at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Midtown.
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• Music Review | Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Trio Mediaeval: The John Henry Who Might Have Been

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  The Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Trio Mediaeval performed Julia Wolfe’s “Steel Hammer.”
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• Mamata defends high salaries to intellectuals in rail panels

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Kolkata, Nov 23 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has defended her decision to rope in intellectuals and theatre personalities into railway committees and their so-called hefty salaries that have come under criticism from the ruling Left Front in West Bengal.“I am the railway minister. It is my discretion…I ...
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• 100 Best Relaxing Classics

  
  WeLove-music — Authority: 138
  CD 1 – RELAXING BAROQUE CD 2 – RELAXING MOZART & BEETHOVEN CD 3 – RELAXING FILM CLASSICS CD 4 – RELAXING ROMANTIC CLASSICS CD 5 – RELAXING PIANO FAVOURITES CD 6 – RELAXING CLASSICS OF MODERN TIMES Sit back, relax and unwind to some of the most relaxing classical music performed by some of the ...
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• Music review: Terry Riley launches West Coast, Left Coast Festival

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  “IF THERE IS NO SEDUCTION, THERE IS NO MUSIC.” The capitalized sentiment leapt off the page in Terry Riley’s program note for “Eureka!” the late-night opening event for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s West Coast, Left Coast festival Saturday night. And thus -- after more than two hours of regimented ...
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• Music review: Shanghai Symphony in Santa Barbara

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  In the field where Chinese composers and performers and Western classical music converge, East has been successfully meeting West long enough that the concept is closer to a norm -- or at least accepted cultural fact -- than a novelty. What remains rare, though, are local live concert encounters with Chinese ensembles ...
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• Video: Introducing the fluid piano

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Mark Brown talks to Geoff Smith, whose reinvention of the piano allows players to alter the tuning of notes either before or during a performance Mark Brown David Levene Christian Bennett
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• Fine-tuning: composer reinvents the piano

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Fluid instrument allows pianists to alter sound before or while they play For a non-pianist, the idea of a microtonally fluid piano might seem either no big deal or baffling. But this weekend a composer will reveal the result of a 10-year mission – nothing less than the reinvention of one of the most important ...
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