July, 2019

40 Posts
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Unwritten Things – Going Beyond the Notes
The music is behind those dots. You search for it…I play, so to speak, from the other side of the printed score, looking backVladimir Horowitz The notated musical score is a wonderful thing. Contained within it are myriad markings, signs,
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Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Playing Music
Mahler: Symphony No.1, Titan When I began playing in an orchestra I found it quite challenging, even though I had grown up hearing my father practice and racing with his cello to engagements. (My father played in the Toronto Symphony
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KERTSMAN, M.: Concertos / Chamber Symphony No. 2, “New York of 50 Doors”
Concerto Brasileiro – III. Repentes, Baião, Xaxado con brio From KERTSMAN, M.: Concertos / Chamber Symphony No. 2, “New York of 50 Doors” (2018) Released by Naxos Kertsman: Concerto Brasileiro – III. Repentes, Baião, Xaxado con brioBrazilian-American composer, Miguel Kertsman,
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The Sound of 78s
I remember growing up listening to my grandmother’s gramophone. As a child, the sound always enthralled me, it still does.
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“The Fantastic Whirl of Destiny”
Ravel’s La Valse
What is Ravel’s La Valse about? Is it a portrait of the disintegration of decadent pre-First War Europe, the dying embers of the Belle Epoque? Or simply a rollicking dance, a sensuous hommage to the Viennese Waltz?
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Mozart’s Musical Journey
3 July 1778: “Mum is dying”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart could not have known that his time in Paris in 1778 was about to take a tragic turn. He reports to his father “my dearest mother is very ill.” Suffering from shivering and feverishness, diarrhea and headache,
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Alexander Dreyschock
“The Pianistic God of Thunder” Countless highly talented individuals populate the musical universe, but very few get immortalized in poetry. But that’s exactly what happened to the Czech pianist and composer Alexander Dreyschock (1818-1869). The prolific Danish author Hans Christian
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Alondra de la Parra
‘Variation and Contrast’ Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra has made waves as the first ever Music Director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Born in New York, she has worked with orchestras all over the globe, including the Berlin Radio
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