Music the artform and artists
Deconstructing the Genius of Bach
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- Tuesday, 10 September 2013
How the Baroque master used maths, physics and the power of God to create music of stunning complexity.
Britain and Germany: a musical love affair
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- Monday, 09 September 2013
"No two countries in Europe possess a stronger history of cultural and familial sympathy, trust and mutual respect than Britain and Germany".
Unleashing the Potential of the Strings
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- Tuesday, 03 September 2013
Mr. Haimovitz is one of the leading cellists of his generation and equally well known for his ardent interpretations of the classics as for boundary-pushing projects involving electronics and collaborations with unusual instruments.
How One Singer Made Four Debut Albums
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- Friday, 30 August 2013
About a month before she died last week at age 76, Sathima Bea Benjamin finally properly celebrated her debut album.
Music and Tyranny: The Rest is Silence
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- Wednesday, 28 August 2013
At last Friday's Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, the Warsaw Philharmonic, brilliantly conducted by Antoni Wit, presented a powerful programme of Polish and Russian music written under the shadow of Nazism and Stalinism.
What Albert Murray Taught Us About Jazz
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- Tuesday, 27 August 2013
An essayist, cultural theorist, novelist, educator and biographer who died on August 18 at 97, Albert Murray spent more than five decades developing his thesis that America is a culturally miscegenated nation.
The 95-year-old keeping traditional Vietnamese music alive
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- Monday, 26 August 2013
The 95-year-old is reckoned to be one of the greatest of the country's traditional musicians and the guardian of a form of Vietnamese music called Nhac Tai Tu Nam Bo - or the Music of the Amateurs.
Boo or Bravo: Hot Opera Directors
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- Friday, 23 August 2013
Bloomberg Picks Today's Hottest Opera Directors No, not the mayor himself. But his news agency names a group ranging from the established (Robert Carsen, David McVicar) to the up-and-coming (Katharina Thoma) to the edgy (Dmitri Tcherniakov, La Fura dels Baus) to the accidental (Fiona Shaw).
Woody Shaw: The Last Great Trumpet Innovator
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- Monday, 19 August 2013
Woody Shaw, who made his first recordings 50 years ago this summer, might be the jazz trumpet's least appreciated giant.
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