The Pointy End
How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records
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- Wednesday, 14 June 2017
In 1989, the record executive Robert Hurwitz attended a London performance of the Polish composer Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, subtitled “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.”
Cultivating Ignorance
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- Wednesday, 14 June 2017
There is something rather sad and futile about a shame of imperfect knowledge.
Music Matters
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- Wednesday, 14 June 2017
You don't have to be a musician to benefit from the transformative power of music.
Fyre Was Bad. This One Could Be Worse.
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- Wednesday, 14 June 2017
For the concert industry, the disastrous failure of the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas was an outlier — a sad spectacle, but an isolated one.
“La musique n’est pas de la littérature”
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- Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Bob Dylan a (enfin) remis son discours de réception du prix Nobel.
Music in the OR: Turn It Up, or Turn It Off?
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- Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Is an operating room the right place for Beethoven, Beyoncé, or Phil Collins?
Music torture: How heavy metal broke Manuel Noriega
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- Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Everyone has at least one song that sets their teeth on edge. Most of the time, they're easy to avoid.
Musique : des plantes qui chantent ?
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- Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Ca semble incroyable mais c’est pourtant vrai : un chef d’orchestre pépiniériste fait un orchestre grâce à ses plantes.
How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’
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- Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Fifty years after its release, the sprawling closing track on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band remains a testament to the group’s ambitious songwriting.
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