The Pointy End
Music that’s good enough to moan along to
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- Friday, 05 April 2013
Did you get out of the wrong side of the bed this morning? Are you hacked off with the weather? Are last night's dirty dishes still in the sink? Well if you want to hear some really good whinging, check with the Bealtaine Festival on May 1st when Ireland's first ever Complaints Choir will be moaning on and on and on – to music.
How composers from Mozart to Bach made their music add up
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- Friday, 05 April 2013
What's the next number in this sequence? 5, 10, 20, 30, 36 ... ? And the next in this? 640, 231, 100, 91 ... ? If you know your Mozart then you'll identify 43 as the number that comes after 36 in the first sequence.
Steinway to Sell Its Famed Showroom Building
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- Tuesday, 02 April 2013
Steinway Hall, the 88-year-old building down the block and across the street from Carnegie Hall where generations of famous and not-so-famous pianists have tried out pianos, is being sold, the piano company and the buyer said on Tuesday.
Icelandic composer uses knitting pattern to write score
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- Tuesday, 02 April 2013
Not so long ago, knitting was a near-obsolete craft skill, exercised only by doughty aunts. But something stirred in the purlieus of tricot: suddenly, knitting became not just the hobby of chic young urbanites, but an occupation with intellectual heft.