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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 is subtitled the “Ode to Joy.” His Symphony No. 8 doesn’t have a subtitle or nickname, but conductor Herbert Blomstedt ...
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- Added: Dec 31, 2009
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Thomas Stacy was the long time English horn and Oboe D'amore player with the New York Philharmonic. The Oboe D'amore is a longer, deeper sounding ...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2009
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What's the key to a successful and highly creative performing career? Violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov explodes one myth and reveals his ...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2009
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Keeping the doctor away, with a little help from our friends.
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- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: 02:59
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Why some people willingly eat painful food.
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- Added: Jun 27, 2009
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The most amazing structure in nature.
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- Added: Jun 27, 2009
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If you ever enter into a friendly competition over which art form is the most powerful, or holds the greatest potential, you might want to consider...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :27
One of composer Edvard Grieg's best known works is his Piano Concerto. While Grieg speaks on a mostly grand scale in the concerto, Leif Ove Andsne...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :22
Democracy-Anglo/American Style-Nationbuilding from the days of the Divine Rights of Kings to Lincoln's Immortal Words at Gettysburg.
- Added: Jan 19, 2009
- Length: 01:12:47
Bach's music for organ, harpsichord and violin is among the most frequently transcribed and re-adapted music of our time. On pianist Helene Grimau...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :27
What are the secrets of Bach and his music's ability to reach a wide variety of musical tastes? He had all the skills, technique and other musical...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :23
Even though online access has brought different parts of the world closer together, there are still distinct continental approaches to playing spec...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :24
There's your driver's license, your passport, and if you're clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, your clarinet sound is another proof of I-D. Use this 2...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :26
Among the many colors, sounds or inflections a clarinetist can draw from their instrument is a sense of nostalgia. That makes the Autumn Song by T...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :32
It's a long road to establish a career in music, much less going on to become a major player. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma offers these guidelines for what mu...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :27
Scientist constructs remote wireless network for environmenal researchers.
- Added: Dec 20, 2007
- Length: 09:59
Studying cities ecological footprint in order to design more sustainable communities.
- Added: Dec 12, 2007
- Length: 08:09
Swedish company designs clean coal powereed plant
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- Added: Oct 12, 2007
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"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...
- Added: Jun 23, 2007
- Length: 03:55
we're all closure-junkies - craving resolutions in the endings of the stories we encounter - can we break the habit long enough to appreciate the e...
- Added: Jun 23, 2007
- Length: 07:09
first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...
- Added: Jun 23, 2007
- Length: 04:41
How support of troops gets conflated with support of war
- Added: May 30, 2007
- Length: 06:00
eNewspapers for On-Line News Reading
- Added: May 25, 2007
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While Alan Hovhaness' music has a distinct and recognizable sound and texture, it's the sum of many different cultures and nationalities. Harpist ...
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- Added: Mar 01, 2007
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the pros and cons of a magnificent experinent in encyclopedia making
- Added: Dec 24, 2006
- Length: 05:29