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…about the music
A very grounded Wyoming prairie dog.
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The BBC Proms is massive and rich festival with lots of moving parts. What one makes of any one season largely depends on which slice of it one hap...
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Matthew Worth in Virginia Opera's Orphee by Philip Glass American opera didn't happen until more than 140 years after the first opera, Jacobo Pe...
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In this star-spangled month of July, the question that comes to mind is “What are the defining characteristics of an American Opera?” Should it be...
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I've quickly become very fond of these two sets of songs by Charles Shere, to texts by Carl Rakosi ( here ) and Lou Harrison ( here ). The Rakosi-...
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THE ESTIMABLE Tim Rutherford-Johnson (aka The Rambler) reviews a performance by the Jack Quartet and writes of John Cage's String Quartet in Fou...
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Bank Holiday Monday is Portraits Day on BBC Radio 3. Here, producer Janet Tuppen explains the...
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Timothy McDevitt (L), Michael Kelly (C) and Douglas Williams (R) The barihunk hotness continues at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where they j...
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Can you not imagine it? Paris, during and after World War I, and a collection of the world’s great literary and artistic minds lounging and working...
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Interview with William Susman, composer of Zydeco Madness
MSO’s Opus One will be performing William Susman’s Zydeco Madness in the upcoming perf...
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Throughout his career, composer Virgil Thomson also wrote about music. And he did so with a freshness and directness we almost marvel at today. N...
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We in the West like to think that music is a series of narrative events about me. How did I, the composer or performer, feel today? Was I happy or...
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UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance presented the Conservatory Wind Symphony in their final concert of the fall semester with works by Paul Dukas,...
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The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, in collaboration with Kansas City Public Television, presents “Homecoming: An Evening with Virgil T;” ...
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Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in collaboration with Kansas City Public Television (KCPT) celebrates the music of Virgil Thomson, Kansas C...
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Today in the Wall Street Journal there is an interesting column by Terry Teachout about a couple of critics who were, in retrospect at least, corru...
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By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News
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Pasadena Master Chora...
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On August 22, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Barry Douglas, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, presented the first performance of Kevin Volans’s Pia...
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Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's 1928 opera retains its power to astonish – and seems more urgently contemporary than some composers' much later...
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"Four Saints in Three Acts," the cloying little theatrical concoction by composer Virgil Thomson and librettist Gertrude Stein, is the grade-school...
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