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in MusicDigital Antique: Classically Infused Rock

Classical Music or Rock? You decide!by kdbarclay / on Oct 12, 2012 -
in LifestyleThe Ultimate Greatest Hits List for Classical Music

For those that have an affinity for classical or orchestral music, The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works course is the ultimate listening guide.by pfaulhaber / on May 1, 2012 -
in FilmThis Family (2006) Should Be Seen But Not Heard

You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family…or can you?by missbobetier / on Jun 28, 2011
Latest blogosphere posts tagged “classical music”
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Critic’s Notebook: Tertulia Concert Series at Harding’s and Other Restaurants
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Tertulia, a concert series meant to broaden the appeal of chamber music, combines dinner with a performance.1 day ago -
Music Review: ‘Look and Listen,’ at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery
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“Look and Listen,” a festival of new music performed in art galleries, kicked off its 12th season with a concert at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery on Friday.1 day ago -
BBT Celebrated – review
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Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Ten years ago the Borletti Buitoni Trust handed out its first awards to young professional musicians, arguing that financial support alone wasnt enough. Pianist Jonathan Biss and clarinettist Martin Fröst were among the first to benefit from the BBTs balance of money and mentoring ...2 days ago -
Lithuanian composer Vladas Jakubenas Rediscovered
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Vladas Jakubenas: Chamber & Instrumental Music Vilnius String Quartet Kasparas Uinskas, piano Kaskados Piano Trio St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra; Donatas Katkus, conductor Toccata Classics Vladas Jakubenas has been called "The Lithuanian Hindemith," and this new collection from Toccata Classics helps ...2 days ago -
Justin Davidson on James Levine’s Triumphant Return to Carnegie Hall
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On Sunday afternoon, when James Levine returned to conducting after two years on the disabled list, I stretched out on a bed 150 miles from Carnegie Hall, slipped on a pair of headphones, pointed my iPhone to the Metropolitan Opera website, and took my virtual aisle seat. I couldn’t see ... More »2 days ago -
Contemporary classical music guide round-up
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Choosing just 50 composers to tell the story of the contemporary classical music scene has been a rich and rewarding experience, but Im only too aware of the ones that got away Well, it was never going to be possible to be comprehensive. Comprehensible, hopefully, but all-encompassing? Impossible. With only 50 weeks ...2 days ago -
Haroon Mirza: vinyl, UFOs and the patter of tiny feet
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From a room that replays the sound of ants crossing a copper plate to conversing speaker circles, Mirzas Lisson Gallery show is a riveting sonic adventure Often, I dance alone in my flat. How sad is that, you say, but I dont care. Feeling the beats pulsing through me, being taken over by dark rhythms or a voice, I ...2 days ago -
Tosca, Los Angeles Opera - review
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John Caird and Placido Domingo bring the violence of Puccinis Tosca to the fore in a blood-soaked new production, reports Stephen Pritchard from Los Angeles Placido Domingo should know his way around Puccinis Tosca: he first performed in it as a boy, tolling the bells for mass in Act One. Now, some 60 years later, he ...2 days ago -
BBCSSO/Pintscher – review
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City Halls, Glasgow A hundred years ago it took the orchestra of the Ballets Russes months of rehearsals to find their way around The Rite of Spring, and even then nobody at the legendarily riotous premiere could hear much of what they played. Stravinskys radical masterpiece has since become standard rep, trotted ...2 days ago -
La Donna del Lago, Royal Opera House – review
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Royal Opera House, London The Royal Opera s new production of Rossini s La Donna del Lago is a strangely divided effort. It contains some of the most spectacular singing to be heard at Covent Garden for a while and vindicates an opera some consider uneven. Its opening night, meanwhile, also offered – in the ...2 days ago -
Nellie Melba - 1926 Farewell Performance from Londons Royal Opera House
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Nellie Melba was born on this day in 1861, and became the most famous soprano in the world in her day. She was the first Australian to establish world wide fame in classical music; her start was (perhaps unsurprisingly) not in the United States, but rather in Australia and especially Europe. Her stage name "Melba" ...3 days ago -
Inspector Gadget Theme And Hall Of The Mountain King
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YouTuber foundring noticed the theme music for the Inspector Gadget cartoon sounded so similar to the classic piece In the Hall of the Mountain King . He soon discovered that Shuki Levy who made the theme song was in fact inspired by the Peer Gynt number. He made his own hybrid of the two in this ...3 days ago -
Northern Sinfonia/Dean – review
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Sage, Gateshead Under normal circumstances, a violin bow without rosin has the same practical value as a glass hammer or a chocolate teapot. Without it, the smooth hairs produce only a ghostly whisper of a sound, yet the receipt of a rehaired, un-rosined bow caused the composer and viola player Brett Dean to make a ...1 week ago -
Wozzeck – review
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Coliseum, London Carrie Cracknell s new ENO production of Wozzeck relocates Berg s masterpiece to post-Iraq, recession-ridden Britain, and forges from it a bitter indictment of the political failures of our times. As an interpretation of Berg, it is at times wayward. But it makes for utterly compelling music ...1 week ago -
Academy of St Martin in the Fields – review
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Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon Commemorating Britten is what every self-respecting ensemble is doing in this centenary year, but the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) made their Britten UK tour all the more distinctive by commissioning from Sally Beamish a companion piece to Brittens Variations ...1 week ago -
Johann Baptist Vanhal - Organ Concerto in C Major
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Image via Wikipedia Johann Baptist Vanhal (Jan Křtitel Vaňha in Czech) is simply an astonishing story, perhaps unique in all of classical music. Born to a peasant family, his music ended up being conducted by no less than Mozart himself. Bohemia (nor in the Czech Republic) was one of the major regions of the ...1 week ago -
The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison – review
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A biography of Russian composer Sergei Prokofievs troubled wife is forensically detailed – but with vast Siberian silences Their meeting was utterly unremarkable: to composer Sergei Prokofiev, celebrating his New York debut in 1919, Lina Codina was one among a crowd of female admirers. To Lina, the moment marked ...1 week ago -
Symphony review: Mahler’s big (big!) Fifth
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The two composers whose work started and finished the Des Moines Symphony’s season finale met in 1907 in Helsinki. And when they did, the Austrian, Gustav Mahler, told the Finn, Jean Sibelius, that a symphony “must be like the world. It must embrace everything.” Mahler’s gigantic Fifth Symphony comes pretty ...1 week ago -
A new music festival in Tuscany, Italy
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Where once gunfire tore apart the Tuscan estate of La Foce – as told in Iris Origos memoir War in the Val dOrcia – now classical music brings people together A hush falls over the moonlit courtyard. The rhythmic percussion of countless cicadas is replaced by the sweet pulsations of a dozen violins, their melody ...1 week ago -
Don Carlo; Gods and Heroes – review
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Royal Opera House, London; All Saints, Eastbourne In Verdis four-and-a-half-hour opera Don Carlo , one moment captures its essence. The Grand Inquisitor, blind and venomous, totters into the study of the Spanish monarch, Philip II. Two elderly men confront the limits of their power: kingship versus faith, ...1 week ago


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