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Some music sounds and looks easy, but that’s often not the case. Violinist Gil Shaham says the Violin Concertos by Haydn are not for beginners. Us...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
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Performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra have been called “vivid” and “rhapsodic” by the New York Times, and it’s clear that Atlanta hosts on...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
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Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra share a commitment to the creation of new music, and it enjoys a regular presence in the orchestra’...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
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When asked to write music for the first anniversary of 9-11, composer John Adams wrote a work for orchestra and chorus - and included everyday soun...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
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Violinist Gil Shaham calls the Octet for Strings by Mendelssohn “a mind blowing achievement.” What makes it so great? He says it’s a case, at lea...
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: :28
It’s the same music, but in a different setting and with a very different sound. Samuel Barber arranged his well-known “Adagio for Strings” for ch...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
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The new production of Tosca at the Met caused an enormous uproar of epic proportions. While the new production pleased some, it inspired near riot...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
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Bass-Baritone Bryn Terfel has been a very bad boy. Actually “Bad Boys” is the title of his CD, where he performs arias by opera’s most despicable v...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
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Three of the main figures are brought together in the final scene of Mozart’s Don Giovanni – they are the notorious, lustful and unsympathetic Don,...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
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Composer Mark O’Connor says there’s a “stir fry” element that defines American music. People from different lands stirred their own musical experi...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
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What makes American music American? Composer and violinist Mark O’Connor tries to tell that story – or history – in his “Appalachia Waltz.” Use th...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
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The title of Yuja Wang’s new recording is “Transformation.” It’s a fitting title – especially for one of the Scarlatti keyboard sonatas, which she...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
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George Gershwin could be called a "What If" composer. "What if" he had lived longer than just 39 years, what more would he have written? And, "Wh...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2009
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Flutist Carol Wincenc has been around – standing in front of the orchestra, playing a wide range of chamber music with the who’s who of classical m...
- Added: May 30, 2010
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The “Poem” by Charles Tomlinson Griffes is, in a way, one of the quintessential American works for flute and orchestra. But flutist Carol Wincenc ...
- Added: May 30, 2010
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Mozart Piano Concertos are a regular part of Piotr Anderszewski’s repertoire. He loves the music but questions the notion that concertos feature a...
- Added: May 30, 2010
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Think Chopin, and maybe you think of something virtuosic and heroic. When pianist Piotr Anderszewski thinks Chopin, virtuosic and heroic are the l...
- Added: May 30, 2010
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Call it precocious or simply amazing, Mozart wrote some remarkable music when he was 8-years old. Flutist Carol Wincenc says age is truly relative...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: :24
All good pieces of music have at least one magical moment that either raises the roof, or hits you right in the gut. The Violin Concerto by Benjam...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
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With Concertos – who’s in charge... the soloist or the conductor? Violinist Janine Jansen prefers it when both she and the conductor avoid taking ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
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Who owns the music – the performer or the composer? When it comes to interpretation, pianist Rafal Blechacz has his priorities and knows who come...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
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On a warm New York night in August, 2007, an unknown pianist went to bed not knowing that she was about to become an overnight sensation. Her name...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
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Bach’s music often incorporated steps and rhythms from the dance music of his day. And often he was writing actual dance music, like a gavotte or ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
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Do you remember the Sam Cooke song from the 50s about not knowing music much about history, biology and trigonometry? Like many performers, pianis...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
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Do you have to be American to play Jazz? Or Viennese to play a waltz, or French to play... any French music? The answer is “no.” But conductor S...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: :25