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Original Technorati articles tagged “classical music”

• in Music
  Digital Antique: Classically Infused Rock
  Classical Music or Rock? You decide!
  by kdbarclay / on Oct 12, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  The 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 Film
  This 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”

 

• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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, ...
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• Weber: Der Freischütz – review

  
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  Brewer, Matthews, ONeill, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Davis (LSO Live) Recorded in April 2012 at Londons Barbican, this live concert performance of Webers Der Freischütz is a moving testament to the late Sir Colin Davis, as well as a thrilling performance in its own right, with top soloists: Christine ...
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• From the Observer archive, 15 May 1983: the jangling return of Liberace – and his old chestnuts

  
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  The money-obsessed piano showman mixes the glam with the ham on stage at Wembley with the London Philharmonic Sequins sparkled, electric bulbs on the candelabra twinkled like ships at night; spotlights made the orchestra blush red for de Falla, blue for Debussy; and a BBC TV camera darted forward for close-ups of the ...
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• Oh Fortuna by Carl Orff sheet music for Trumpet Carmina Burana Music Score

  
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  Video Sheet Music for Carmina Burana O Fortuna Sheet Music for Trumpet Oh Fortuna by  Carl Orff Music Score from Carmina Burana Sheet Music for Trumpet
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• Fuse Music Review: The Boston Pops does “Fantasia”

  
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  In the end, the technological snafu probably did more than the musical selections themselves to prove that listening to symphonic music live is not a stuffy affair.
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• Saturday Reads from Sleepy in Seattle

  
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  Good Morning! I cannot believe how tired I am at the moment but I’m going to muddle through this with you somehow.  I have all the good intentions of doing lots of things like hooking up with our Seattle Sky Dancers but so far, I’m freezing cold and exhausted.  So, let me try to find some lighter things to ...
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• Review: City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte

  
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  Reviewed by Lynn Reynolds Sarah Weston is a music grad student who has been offered the job of a lifetime. Nicolas Pertusato is the man that is taking her to her dream job. He’s also something of a tour guide. There are several other characters that lead us on a tour through Prague and Lobkowicz Palace. While at ...
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• Music Review: Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillen in Recital

  
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  A program of deviltry and mischief features Miranda Cuckson, violin, and Blair McMillen, piano, at Columbia University’s Italian Academy.        
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• Op-Ed Columnist: The Man at the Piano

  
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  Joe Nocera
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• Character Study: Lucy Mann Keeps American Composers’ Spirits Alive

  
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  Lucy Mann, executive director of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, regularly celebrates the birthdays of 20th-century American composers so music students will have a clue who they are.        
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• Music Review: Sympho Orchestra at the Church of the Ascension

  
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  The conductor Paul Haas led a concert on Wednesday under dimmed lights at the Church of the Ascension in Manhattan.        
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• Music Review: Benjamin Beilman at Merkin Concert Hall

  
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  Benjamin Beilman, a rising 21-year-old, performed chamber works from several masters at Merkin Concert Hall.        
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• Simon Hoggarts week: would you buy a poncho from a Guardian columnist?

  
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  If rightwing writer Melanie Phillips can launch her own line of branded goods, maybe those of a leftish bent should do so too ✒ When I saw that my old chum Melanie Phillips – once a Guardian lefty, now a rightwing columnist on the Daily Mail – was bringing out her own brand of merchandise, I assumed it was a ...
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