Tag: classical music
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November 10, 2006 11:16 PM EST --
Listeners who are new to and overwhelmed by classical music may find chamber music to be a particularly rewarding genre to explore. In my opinion, many composers' most inventive and personal . . . more
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October 18, 2007 04:01 AM EDT --
Prolific, Creative, Symbolic, Cultural, Impressionistic, all refer to one of the most dramatic Composers of the 20th Century, Claude Debussy. Debussy wrote from not only the mind of a creative genius, . . . more
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October 27, 2006 06:44 PM EDT --
I've looked for a group like this on gather and can't find it. If there is one, please steer me there and I'll close this, No sense having redundant groups.
If you're passionate about . . . more
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October 22, 2007 01:56 PM EDT --
Although not truly recognized for his works during his time, had a deep impact on Classical music even if not acknowledged. Mostly noted as a masterful Director, Gustav had also writen many impressive . . . more
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October 28, 2006 02:04 PM EDT --
I'm a sucker for a CD sale. Arkiv.com was offering some interesting titles very cheap so I took a flyer on The Piano Trios of Richard Strauss. I knew him mostly for his tone poems. I'd never heard . . . more
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October 17, 2007 04:33 AM EDT --
Dvorak, who never left is homelands, even though most of his professional time was spent in America, captured much of the Bohemian folk music in his compositions. He had transferred many of the folk music . . . more
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October 30, 2006 09:05 AM EST --
Marin Marais was a French Baroque composer, most notably of music for the bass-viol, which we also call the viola da gamba, a forerunner of the 'cello but with frets like a guitar and as many as seven . . . more
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March 08, 2007 01:59 PM EST --
I started playing the cello when I was 10 years old. When I was 12, I joined our city's youth symphony. I played cello until I reached 17, then I stopped.
My symphony conductor was furious. I had . . . more
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March 07, 2007 02:17 AM EST --
My Musical Journey
From very early I've been very fortunate in seeing and hearing some of the most exciting musicians in the last century. . . . more
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November 13, 2007 03:03 PM EST --
Giovanni Battista Bononcini came from a long line of string musicians and composers, practicing during the Baroque period of Classical Music. Among his many accomplishments, was the first Italian Composer . . . more
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October 19, 2007 11:20 PM EDT --
Relatively rarely heard, and only slightly known in but a few proud groups of people wanting him to be remembered. You would not think of the person referred to as one if not the greatest Composer from . . . more
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November 28, 2007 08:17 AM EST --
BOSTON. On a Tuesday evening at Symphony Hall, the last few strains of a delicate piece by Debussy performed by the Guarneri String Quartet have left the audience in a blissful state of calm, . . . more
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June 29, 2007 08:47 AM EDT --
RIPON, Wisconsin. The National Forensic League, the organization that regulates high school debate in the U.S., has selected a musical topic for next year's tournaments, catching coaches . . . more
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February 18, 2008 02:03 PM EST --
Klutzes of the world, meet David Garrett. Garrett is a former model who is known as the "David Beckham of Classical Music". David Beckham is a soccer player who is known as . . . more
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August 24, 2008 08:16 PM EDT --
Felix Mendelssohn, grandson of the distinguished Jewish thinker Moses Mendelssohn, the additional surname Bartholdy adopted on his conversion to Christianity, was born in Hamburg, the son of . . . more
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April 28, 2007 06:09 AM EDT --
This performance of the allegro first movement of Georg Philipp Telemann's Trio Sonata in D minor by Voices of Music, featuring Hanneke van Proosdij, recorder; Carla Moore, baroque violin; . . . more
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October 16, 2007 03:39 AM EDT --
This is one Composer that found the way to give vision in his music, without words. Even though Rimsky-Korsakov is known for being a Opera composer, he did many pieces that were not to be sung, althogh . . . more
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June 26, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
Fireworks, hot dogs, Old Glory and... classical music. Yep, classical music is indeed essential to the annual American birthday celebration on July 4. Early next month, Americans are sure to hear John . . . more
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April 29, 2008 03:25 PM EDT --
Last March I interviewed the classical violinist Hilary Hahn and published the interview here on Gather. The original appeared back on . . . more
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October 24, 2007 11:59 AM EDT --
Join the Longwood Symphony Orchestra , Kokugikan Sumida Choral Society, Chorus Boston and New World Chorale under guest Japanese conductor Shunji Aratani in a special international collaboration . . . more
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