August, 2014

38 Posts
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Songs from a Century Ago
We went to a concert the other day of songs from WWI – popular tunes for a war that started a hundred years ago. What surprised us was how familiar some of the tunes were. Songs such as George M.
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Alexander Grechaninov
Russian Devotion and Spirituality
Grechaninov’s most enduring and influential musical gift to posterity is surely found in his liturgical music. Breaking entirely new ground, he returned to the old Slavonic traditional chants of the Russian Greek Orthodox Church. Folk-like harmonies and motivic counterpoint provide
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Mahler: Songs
Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit Book 3: No. 2. Ablosung im Sommer From Mahler: Songs (2014) Released by Harmonia Mundi Mahler: Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit – Book 3: No. 2. Ablosung im SommerCan one really grasp the
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Audition Tips
What’s the scariest monster in the closet for musicians? (I must whisper here) THE AUDITION. Any job interview inspires some trepidation, of course, but THE AUDITION— so brief, so dicey, so seemingly random— brings on tremendous doubt, misgivings and even
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Georges Braque and Erik Satie – A Musical Friendship
Violins, guitars, mandolins, music sheets and references to classical composers are very much part of Braque’s oeuvre, particularly during his analytic and synthetic cubist period, which essentially started in the early part of the 20th century and lasted well into
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Martynas Levickis
With already a Decca album under his belt at the age of 22, Martynas Levickis is a concert accordionist ready to take on the world and its assumptions of the accordion. Quickly skyping in between concerts at the world-famous Schleswig-Holstein
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