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Danbury Concert Chorus brings Walden Pond to life

Listening to a new piece of music is like meeting someone for the first time, says Richard Price , Danbury Concert Chorus music director.

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Related Topix: Danbury Metro, Danbury, CT, Classical

Fri Nov 20, 2009

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Salute to Beethoven

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:12 a.m. The classical strains of Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as those by Aaron Copland and even P.D.Q. Bach, will fill the University Auditorium in an annual salute to the German composer on Friday.

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Related Topix: Classical, P.D.Q. Bach, Aaron Copland, Symphony, Arts

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Oregonlive.com

Review: Portland Youth Philharmonic opens season brilliantly

Kai Talim, 16, takes a bow after performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Portland Youth Philharmonic during a dress rehearsal at George Fox University.

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Related Topix: Classical, George Fox University, Verdi, Opera, Giuseppe Verdi, Ernest Bloch

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Slate Magazine

Another Book From Philip Roth About How Much It Stinks To Get Old

Not long ago, Philip Roth gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal , one of several in various publications that occasioned some surprise, since Roth is a notoriously reclusive writer.

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Related Topix: Classical, Strauss

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Financial Times

Arts around the world

Vienna Piotr Anderszewski Piotr Anderszewski, one of the world's foremost concert pianists and the subject of Bruno Monsaingeon's 2008 biopic Unquiet Traveller, plays a rare recital of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations at the Vienna Konzerthaus on Monday.

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Related Topix: Classical, Bach, Horror Movies, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Sweeney Todd, Drama Movies

hosted The Washington Post | The Washington Post

A major movement: 32 works add up to greatness

Till Fellner, the Austrian pianist, plays Beethoven sonatas like a poet. In a recital of five of them he gave at the National Gallery two weeks ago, he performed with a simplicity, a lack of showiness, an absence of affected mannerism. He played like an early romantic poet in the age before romanticism became synonymous with 'over the top' -- the age, that is, in which Beethoven wrote these works.

The layers of analysis and performance and recording and interpretation that have accrued around Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas over the generations can obscure the fact that Beethoven isn't rocket science. If these sonatas were poems, many of them would be about flowers, birds, and love: 19th-century subjects, expressed in a 19th-century idiom. As it is, their meaning is often comparably direct. The sonatas are 'about' the contrast between loud passages and soft, high notes and low ones, a rising figure in the right hand played off against a descending one in the left. They're 'about' the stirring heroism expressed by dotted rhythms (in which long notes alternate with short ones: baDUM, baDUM). They're 'about' the way that a C minor chord is startling when it comes in a place where the 19th-century ear expects a straight E-flat major (at the opening of the 26th sonata, called 'Les Adieux'). To contemporary ears, a C minor chord is not very surprising. The art of Beethoven performance lies in finding ways to make it fresh.

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Related Topix: Classical

Sat Nov 14, 2009

The Paramus Post

Canadian Brass Quintet Seamlessly Blends Classical, Jazz and Renaissance Music

In an Unforgettable LIVE Performance at Englewood's bergenPAC Wednesday December 9th - 8:00 PM Together since the early 70s, The Canadian Brass Quintet's recorded output is prolific and extraordinary.

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Related Topix: The Canadian Brass, Classical, Gabrieli, Vivaldi, Pachelbel

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

Richmond church hosts free chamber music concert

A free chamber music concert featuring three groups from the Amphion Club will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 210 Martina St.

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Related Topix: Methodist, Religion, Classical, Mozart, Haydn

Thu Nov 12, 2009

PR-inside.com

'Nature or nurture' study reveals 'musical genes'

The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- A love of pop and classical music is partly in our genes London, UK - If you've ever wondered why a close group of friends might like completely different types of music, blame their genes.

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Related Topix: Wireless, Telecom, Nokia, Rap, Jay-Z, Black Entertainment, Classical, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Country

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Daily Express

Real-life stories of the country house servants

THE 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has been celebrated this week.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Classical, Breakfast, Baked Goods, Life, Food, Doughnuts

Tue Nov 10, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Takacs Quartet | Classical review

The focus of the TakA cs Quartet's current season is Beethoven a ' a complete cycle of the 17 quartets that they have divided into pairs of programmes, and have spaced out between this month and next May.

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Related Topix: Classical

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

'I'll always associate Beethoven's 7th with the fall of the Berlin wall'

Daniel Barenboim, the Argentine-born conductor and long-term Berlin resident, who played a concert at the Brandenburg Gate with his Staatskapelle orchestra.

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Related Topix: Classical, World News, Germany

Metromix Indianapolis

Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra

Theme: Beethoven's Ninth -- Freedom Without Walls. Collaboration between ICO and the U of I Music Department celebrates 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Related Topix: Indianapolis, IN, Indianapolis Metro, Classical, Soloists, Music, Entertainment

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Movements led Belgian conductor to Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic

The new conductor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, Ronald Zollman, will lead a special concert of works by Jewish composers whose music the Nazis banned.

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Related Topix: Carnegie Mellon University, Classical, Chopin, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh Metro, World News, Belgium

Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Ashland Daily Tidings

Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra

Martin Majkut, one of five conductors competing for the artistic helm of the Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the orchestra's second concert series of the season beginning Friday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical, Mozart, Villa-Lobos, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Saxophone

Thu Nov 05, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

The Takacs take on Beethoven

Beethoven's 'Razumovsky' string quartets were never meant to be easy listening a ' and they are even harder to play.

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Related Topix: Classical

CBS News

White House Hosts Classical Concert

Updated 5:50 p.m. ET With two concerts and a series of workshops for young musicians, the White House put a big spotlight on classical music Wednesday and sent a strong message that it's not just for stuffed shirts.

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Related Topix: Classical, Michelle Obama, Mozart, Manhattan School of Music, Luigi Boccherini

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Oregonlive.com

Review: Oregon Symphony scales Beethoven's Fifth

The Oregon Symphony's first performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony under its new music director Carlos Kalmar was a jolt of discovery - fast, loud and thrilling.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Aldergrove Star

Eclectic concert features unique combination

The elegant sounds of harp, viola and flute will grace the stage of the Clarke Theatre on Saturday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Classical, Arnold Bax, Ravel

Fri Oct 30, 2009

The Day

A promising start to new era for Masterworks

Musical Masterworks launched its 19th season Saturday night as if to prove that change is not necessarily loss.

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Related Topix: Old Lyme, CT, Classical, Schumann

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