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Five reasons why you should sing
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- Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Are you afraid to sing at a family gathering or in the privacy of your bedroom because you feel it won't be music to people's ears? Don't sweat it. Bring out the Madonna in you.
10 things that we should change in classical music concerts
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- Tuesday, 28 October 2014
1. The audience should feel free to applaud between movements
Cuba violinmakers battle instrument shortage
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- Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Cuba's dozens of free music schools turn out thousands of skilled young musicians each year, many of whom play imported instruments that can only be repaired and maintained with hard-to-find materials from abroad.
Classical concerts are great. Stop apologizing for them.
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- Tuesday, 28 October 2014
An answer to Brönnimann's article on classical concerts: why he gets it wrong on nearly every count, demonstrating some of the most common ways classical presenters shoot themselves in the foot.
Children 'scared to sing' for fear of X Factor-style ridicule
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- Monday, 13 October 2014
Dominic Peckham says The X Factor is responsible for turning pupils off singing lessons, saying they now "expect to be ridiculed" when appearing before adults.
Migrating Maestros: Why Are So Many European Conductors Quitting?
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- Thursday, 09 October 2014
The loud grinding of gears we are hearing in Italy and Vienna is not unique to those places. They are warning sounds we will hear all over Planet Opera.
Les compositeurs sont des gens comme les autres
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- Wednesday, 08 October 2014
Aaron Copland en train de jardiner, Scriabine ou Debussy en piquenique, Schoenberg jouant au tennis... Un tumblr recense les photographies de compositeurs en train de faire des choses normales.
Hungarian scholar stumbles on original score of Mozart sonata
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- Wednesday, 08 October 2014
Flipping through a dusty folder of unidentified music scores in Budapest's national library, Hungarian scholar Balazs Mikusi's heart skipped a beat when he came across four pages of the score of a famous Mozart sonata.
Play classical music in hospitals and railway stations to ‘calm public’
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- Tuesday, 16 September 2014
The recommendation follows new figures that estimate around 400 public sector workers are assaulted each week.
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