Music the artform and artists
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.
Confessions of a ‘Composeress’
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- Monday, 19 August 2013
What is the role of the "woman composer" and why, after all these years, is she such a burning issue?
Elvis Presley: 20 essential songs
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- Monday, 19 August 2013
Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, and thousands have gathered at Gracelands in tribute to the singer.
Why Write Symphonies?
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- Friday, 09 August 2013
"So why do you write in these old forms, the symphony, the concerto ... ?"
Bringing classical music into the 21st-century
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- Wednesday, 24 July 2013
You can see the atoms in action around the violinist as she plays. You can enter a 3D visual world where virtual events respond to live sound.
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