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This summer Daniel Barenboim has been conducting his first Beethoven symphony cycle in London. He's the first conductor since Henry Wood in 1942 to...
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Highlights from July 17 to 24 Wednesday, 8 pm: Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest: An all-Tchaikovsky program with Andrew Litton and Danny Driver Thurs...
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A new disc of sacred music from Italy includes multiple choirs, multiple organs, and even cannon blasts. Director Robert Hollingworth explains the ...
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Not all of the content from an episode of New Classical Tracks makes the audio cut. Here is further information and interviews relating to the new ...
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(Young harp artists await the judge's results. I was the non-harp-playing judge, but my input was said to be invaluable!) I'm sitting in a rocking ...
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(Beautiful Raburn Gap, Georgia) We heard eight young harpists today and the level was amazingly high. My favorite piece was Spiders by British comp...
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Peter Sellars stages Bach's St. Matthew Passion in a new DVD from the Berlin Philharmonic
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Arrived this afternoon in Atlanta and stopped for lunch at a local institution, The Flying Biscuit Cafe with two of the judges Anne Sullivan and Ju...
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Saturday is Bastille Day, the national holiday of France. Take our Bastille Day quiz, and test your knowledge of Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Bizet! va...
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While watching The War , the 2007 documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, I heard a beautiful melody I know like the back of my hand yet could...
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Yolanda Kondonassis is one of America's foremost players of the harp. Her new discs compiles high points of two decades of making recordings.
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Highlights from July 10 to 17 Thursday, 3 pm hour: Regional Spotlight Sunday, 6 am: Pipedreams: Portland's Pipes Sunday, noon: From the Top Sunday,...
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Members of Minneapolis ensemble The Copper Street Brass are busy finishing a new, all-classical-music CD.
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There's a fascinating piece in Salon about evolution hard-wiring us to make music. (We have been making music for a long time. This is a 40,000 yea...
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Highlights from July 3 to 10 Wednesday: A day of American music for Independence Day Wednesday, 10 am, online only: Independence Day Concert from W...
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American composer Richard Danielpour says it's difficult to remember all the works he's composed over the years; however, he'll never forget the co...
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Brian Newhouse, Managing Director of Classical Music at MPR | APM put forth a question to the classical staff last Friday, and we just had to share...
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If you've ever visited the famous Central Cemetery in Vienna, you know that many great musicians are buried there, in close proximity. Now there's ...
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On November 12, 2012 choirs will cover the state as part of ACDA-MN's 50th anniversary.
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Jazz giant and tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter is writing a piece for Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and this makes me happy. Shorter has always had a ...
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