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WDAV: Classical
WDAV: Classical
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The quirky musical habits of J.S. Bach's most impressive son would later become standard practice for composers of the next generation. British pianist Danny Driver uncovers the impetuous mood swings, curious key changes and whiplash stops and starts that define Bach's leading-edge style.
5 months ago | |
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Vänskä pleads for both sides to work together in Minnesota, Muti declines to make a statement and a monocled (!) tenor signs to DG: the stories you must know and a guide to all the news that's fit to link. And a composer exols the durability of the orchestra and the versatility of scissors.
6 months ago | |
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The celebrated English conductor leads his Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir in a performance of one of Beethoven's most expansive and searching works: the Missa Solemnis, a piece that asks far more questions than it answers.
6 months ago | |
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A young Canadian composer of Chinese parentage deftly mixes East and West in her recent creations, which include a virtuosic violin concerto called Dreamscapes. The musical salad Fung tosses up should appeal to anyone with an inquiring mind and open ears.
6 months ago | |
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Now considered one of Verdi's masterpieces, the opera flopped on its first run and carries the stigma of cursing those who perform it to terrible fates.
6 months ago | |
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When peace was declared at the end of World War II, Army veteran Harold Van Heuvelen did something different than his troop mates ¿ he wrote a symphony. This week he traveled to Virginia to hear it performed for the first time.
6 months ago | |
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Lamenting Carter's death, trouble in Spokane and another award for Dudamel: what you need to read, in all the week's news that's fit to link. And one cheeky writer imagines that Colorado's lenient new marijuana law could make Aspen Music Festival recruiting a breeze.
6 months ago | |
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Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener keep trying to make beautiful music together in 'A Late Quartet,' a new film about the struggles of a veteran chamber group. Beethoven supplies the soundtrack and a prism for splitting the strands of relationships and mortality.
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Carter lived one of the most fulfilled lives any artist could wish for. What's sad about his death Monday at 103 isn't just that a whole era in music has come to an end, but that Carter was still composing, and on the highest level.
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The composer, who was born in 1908 and won two Pulitzer Prizes for music that could be challenging and adventurously modern, died in New York.
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