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The spoken language of classical music is filled with foreign names and phrases, and even conductors like Marin Alsop find it challenging to be mul...
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
- Length: :22
Use any of these Funder Spot choices during your Classical Music Fundraising programming, and especially before or after playing any performance co...
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- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 10
Debussy's First Rhapsody for Clarinet began as a contest piece for students at the Paris Conservatory. That explains the presence of the virtuoso ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :26
When brass players audition for a rare opening in the Canadian Brass, playing the notes is only one part of the process. You've got to show them y...
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: :19
Before Madonna, Brittany and Paris, there was Godowsky. Leopold Godowsky was a piano virtuoso who dazzled audiences around the world in the early ...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: :35
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Some performers dread hearing their old recordings, or any of their recordings for that matter. Pascal Roge's performances of the Saint-Saens Pian...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2009
- Length: :21
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All children go through phases and stages. They can be cute, adorable, precocious and obnoxious. Pianist Pascal Roge went through each of these p...
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- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: :15
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How does the musical life of a child prodigy begin? For Sarah Chang, playing the violin was simply a hobby. Use this 24 second clip to introduce ...
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- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: :25
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Overnight success does happen but it's more myth than reality. Violinist Sarah Chang made her debut when she was 8 years old. Her success that ev...
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- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: :18
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Violinist Hilary Hahn performed on the Tonight Show in March 2010. Her strategy for playing in front of a huge audience of 100's of thousands is to...
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- Added: Jan 13, 2010
- Length: :37
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A regular part of Misha Dichter’s performance schedule includes playing music for two pianos with his wife, Cipa Dichter. The two practically grew...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :23
Got a cold – feel one coming on? Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has an over-the-counter remedy she guarantees every time. Use this 20 second clip t...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: :20
It might not have been a "fly on the wall" moment, but it would be interesting to know who spoke first when three leading classical music soloists,...
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- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: :28
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Percussionist Evelyn Glennie had formal music training all her life, including attending the Royal Academy of Music in London. Still, some of her ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: :24
Ask any musician what makes their instrument special, and maybe better than any other instrument, and they almost always point to the same characte...
- Added: Feb 29, 2008
- Length: :23
When you think "Tango," you think romance, passion and maybe even a gritty, romantic passion. But violinist Joshua Bell says there's another way t...
- Added: Oct 30, 2009
- Length: :18
The English horn is a specialty instrument -- a longer, deeper version of the oboe. One of the English horn's best known moments comes with the lo...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :23
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Andrew Litton is not the first, and probably not the last to say his big career break came when he saw Leonard Bernstein conduct for the first time...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2009
- Length: :28
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The music by Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla is often charged with romantic and melodramatic urges. When it comes to playing Piazzolla, violi...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :24
It's not a "given" that the instrument a famous musician plays today was the very first instrument they played. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma's first instrumen...
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: :20
Beethoven's last piano sonata contains one of classical music's all-time most shocking moments. Right in the middle of the sonata, without warning...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :25
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The frequent trumpet solos are literally the high point of the Bach Brandenburg Concerto Number 2. Those sky piercing notes may be exciting and gl...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :22
About ten years ago, cellist Matt Haimovitz took the Bach Cello Suites out of the concert hall and started playing them in bars and night clubs. T...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :26
The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 is a part of nearly every pianist's concert repertoire, and for many Russian pianists, it's often the first ma...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :26
There are a number of ways, all subjective of course, to judge a successful performance of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer". For violini...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :24
