Music the artform and artists
Film composers: a director's best friend
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- Thursday, 12 September 2013
How did music make Psycho scarier and The Dark Knight even darker? As the BBC begins its Sound of the Cinema season, Sean Macaulay celebrates the fine art of the film composer.
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).
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