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No one's perfect – even virtuosos like violinist Joshua Bell make mistakes on stage. Throughout his career, he's learned to prioritize his flubs a...
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- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: :26
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For some performers, making recordings is their bread and butter. Violinist Joshua Bell, on the other hand, is somewhat ambivalent about walking i...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :21
The power of music is so strong for some it takes on religious proportions. That's the case for violinist Joshua Bell. Music IS his religion, whe...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Nov 30, 2006
- Length: :23
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Whether you're making a speech or a presentation in public, you hope you've got some friends in the audience. That extra support is something viol...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :21
When violinist Joshua Bell plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons, he calls on his musical training and creative instincts. But he also gets some assistance...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :26
For those among us who question the existence of humor or levity of any kind in classical music, violinist Joshua Bell offers this piece of evidenc...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :24
Many recordings these days are made from live concert performances. The pressure and excitement of a live setting often brings out a more spontane...
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- Added: Aug 01, 2007
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The Stradivarius Violin is the gold standard when it comes to violin making. Although violinist Joshua plays a Strad today, he remembers his very ...
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- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: :20
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Violinist Joshua Bell speculates he's performed Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto a thousand times. And each time he plays it, he's reminded of why it...
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- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: :24
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Violinist Joshua Bell has a CD – "At Home with Friends" – where he recaptures the musical get-togethers he hosts in his Manhattan home with friends...
- Added: Oct 30, 2009
- Length: :22
Violinist Midori has two powerful loves in her life: music and children. She leads two foundations that seek to improve the quality of life for c...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :27
For most musicians, Bach is more than just music. For violinist Midori, Bach is a way of life. Use this 26 second clip to introduce Midori playin...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :26
Violinist Midori is celebrating her 28th year of music making – and one of her recent projects includes playing more contemporary music. Playing n...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :21
The Nocturne by Tchaikovsky lives at the intersection of melancholy and beauty – you can hear and feel both. And for cellist Zuill Bailey, it’s mu...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :24
Pianist Yuja Wang has a CD that includes a Theme and Variations and two orchestral works that have been transcribed for piano. But that’s not the ...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: :21
The young pianist from China, Yuja Wang is generating considerable excitement for her playing and astounding technical mastery of composers like Ra...
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- Added: Feb 26, 2010
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One of the beauties of classical music is that some things never go out of style. Use this 24 second clip to introduce harpist Catrin Finch playin...
- Added: Sep 27, 2009
- Length: :24
Guitarist Sharon Isbin jokes that in a former life, she must have lived during the Renaissance era. Music from the 16th century clearly awakens bo...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: :21
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The Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian was once very popular and championed by several violin super heroes of the past, including Jascha Heifetz....
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :20
What makes a composer's music resonate with the audience? Composer John Adams offers a starting point to this ultimately unanswerable question. U...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :29
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Breaking down the barrier between classical music and its audience is a priority for many classical music performers, including the charismatic per...
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- Added: Mar 02, 2007
- Length: :26
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Composer John Corigliano’s father was the concertmaster (1st violinist) with the New York Philharmonic for 23 years, so violin playing and the viol...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :26
Composer John Corigliano grew up surrounded by music. His father was the concertmaster (1st violinist) with the New York Philharmonic for 23 years...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :24
Although we primarily think of Bach as a composer and the ultimate keyboard player, he also played the violin. Hilary Hahn has been playing Bach t...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :27
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is becoming one of the more frequently performed songs of our generation. You may have heard it recently at the Olymp...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: :25
