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This story isn't brand new, so please excuse me ; it happened last month , and it's as fascinating as it is important . The 123 members of the great Berlin Philharmonic met last month at an undisclosed location to decide on a conductor to succeed...
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If you ask me "who is my favorite composer , my favorite conductor , pianist , violinist , opera singer , orchestra " , sorry , I just can't choose from so many great ones , living and dead . But this is a characteristic of mine ; I'm...
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You probably haven't heard of Chinese-born American violinist Frank Hwang , but he's just won Classical Music's equivalent of the lottery , and one of the most prestigious posts in the world of the symphony orchestra . He's just been appointed...
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The summer after finishing my master's degree (last summer), I worked and worked and wrote and wrote. But then the summer ended and I was not even halfway done. I voiced my displeasure with this to someone who tried to console me by saying "the...
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So the first thing I did was stop writing. There was no point. All that trying and accomplishing nothing, thinking about the book constantly but having not time to work on it. I was making myself miserable. I focused on immediate task at hand and spent...
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The last post I made here was over a year and a half ago. I was fed up and failing at balancing my life as a writer with the multitude of other demands on time: twin girls, full-time job, working on a Master's Degree in education. I was trying everything...
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Today is the 90 th birthday of one of the most important and influential classical musicians of our time , Pierre Boulez . It would be difficult to overstate his enormous impact on classical music in the 20 th and early 21st centuries , both as a composer...
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According to conventional wisdom , the world of classical music is staid and set in its ways , and slow to change . There is some truth to this accusation , but things are still vastly different from its past . No longer is classical music dominated by...
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The old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times " can be interpreted as a curse or something not so negative . These are certainly interesting times for classical music . The Chinese pictogram for the word crisis consists of the words...
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If you go to facebook discussions , classical music forums, articles on the internet and other websites where classical music is discussed and argued about , something which I as a classical musician naturally do every day , you can't help notice...
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The Metropolitan Opera's 2015 - 16 season will offer its usual varied operatic fare with the world's greatest singers , conductors , directors and designers . The overall repertoire looks somewhat more conservative than usual , with no new or...
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In addition to being a place where you can see videos about news ,politics ,science, religion and virtually any subject in existence , as well as pop music , Rock music , Jazz and what have you , Youtube is a fantastic way to experience classical music...
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I didn't see last Sunday's Grammy Awards on television last Sunday as I was busy with other matters . But as a classical musician I'm always curious to find out the winners in the classical recordings category . Among these were a recent CD...
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The world of classical music was stunned by a bombshell this morning when the New York Philharmonic announced that its current music director Alan Gilbert , 47 , will leave his prestigious but extremely demanding position as its music director at the...
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A kind of musical mystique surrounds the chamber ensemble known as the string quartet - two violins, one viola, a cello . It's one of the most rarified and esoteric genres of classical music , not something as immediately appealing and colorful as...
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