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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performs without a conductor. They make all musical decisions as a group. In the business world, decision by consen...
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performs without a conductor. We know they make it work, but how do they make it work? Long time Orpheus violinist ...
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The amount of new music for the Brass Quintet is growing, and has grown considerably. But this is a relatively recent development. Trumpet player...
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Working without a conductor creates both creative and practical challenges for an orchestra: how do you get the music started? For the conductor-...
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The amount of new music for the Brass Quintet has grown considerably. But this is a relatively recent development. Trumpet player Rolf Smedvig sa...
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Pianist Orli Shaham says Dvorak's music is like a beautiful onion - every time you peel off a layer, or look beyond the surface of the music, you a...
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Before composers recognized the trumpet's capabilities as a solo instrument, it was mostly used to add reinforcement to the main musical themes and...
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Pianist Orli Shaham dreams of playing in front of the enthusiastic and traditionally very responsive audiences that attend the figure skating compe...
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Trumpet players thank their lucky stars every day for Telemann and Purcell. In their day, they added dozens of new works to the repertoire. When ...
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The trouble with cliches is that they tend to lose meaning after the 15th hearing. So instead of saying Mozart brilliantly practiced the art of "l...
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Listening to brass music by Giovanni Gabrieli is a lesson in rich harmonies and inventive melodies. Gabrieli's music is also a lesson in sound, as...
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When pianist Orli Shaham walks on stage to perform, she always says the same two words to her musical partner before playing the first note: "Have...
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Composer Robert Schumann had many admirers, but his critics said he did not know how to write for the orchestra. Gustav Mahler made some adjustmen...
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The Overture to an opera can serve several purposes - it can get the audience in the mood and set the tone for the drama about to unfold. It can a...
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There's often a story behind a story behind the music we love, but not always. Mozart never really tells us how he came to write his Violin Sonata...
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One of the most talked about musicians these days is Dutch violinist Janine Jansen. Riccardo Chailly conducted an early recording of hers that fea...
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The young Dutch violinist Janine Jansen is getting a lot of attention for her recordings and concert performances. Riccardo Chailly conducted her ...
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Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has recorded nearly every piano work by Erik Satie. His music could be melancholy and mysterious. Thibaudet says Sati...
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The cynical judgment often leveled against Vivaldi is he wrote the same concerto 100 times. Vivaldi fans respond to that charge with varying degre...
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As one builds and then maintains a career, there's the hope we'll maintain enough of the passion that initially inspired our career choice. It's n...
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Calling a political opponent a "flip-flopper" is one of the more frequently heard accusations heard on the campaign trail. While changing one's vi...
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Vivaldi wrote his set of violin concertos, known as the "Four Seasons," for the orchestra at an all-girls school and orphanage. For violinist Sara...
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The Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 begins quite dramatically with a thick, almost foggy texture. But, in the second movement, pianist Jean-Yves ...
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In the collection of Bach piano pieces known as the Well-Tempered Clavier, you're most likely hearing a perfect piece of musical construction. But...
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In Beethoven's 6th Symphony, known as his "Pastoral" Symphony, each movement depicts a very specific moment in nature, from a scene by a brook to a...
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