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Conducting the Future of Classical Music
Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France The Visionary Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is not just a conductor; she is a visionary, shaping the future of classical music with each movement of her hands. At the helm of major orchestras across the
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Beethoven, Bach, and… Coffee?
When we truly respect someone’s intellect, our first instinct is to treat them with the utmost reverence: to place them on a pedestal and see them as somehow more than human. With composers we admire, especially those well cemented in
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Karol Szymanowski
Myths
Isolated from the surrounding carnage of WWI, Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) began to synthesise elements of German Romanticism and Eastern Exoticism through an exploration of Greek mythical subject matters and concepts from the French fin de siècle of Debussy and Ravel.
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Music and Graphics
It was December 1950: composer Morton Feldman was doodling on a napkin, waiting for John Cage to finish cooking some wild rice. What Feldman had been drawing on this scrap of paper stuck with him and eventually became his landmark
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Michael Tippett: New Year Suite
Michael Tippett composed his final opera New Year in the mid-80s, during a time of social unrest in a Britain fearful of multiculturalism and increased ghettoisation of its inner cities. The opera, however, is explicitly about dreams and about the
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An Outcome of Peace: Serenity
Peace must exist in a state of calm; peace does not come to the impatient or the restless; it is achieved through serenity. Serenity, which has been defined poetically as the ability ‘to accept the things that cannot be changed’,
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Will You Be Mine This New Year?
7 Sexy Takes on “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to spend New Year’s Eve with someone special? Well, there is an enchanting song that is all about that spark of curiosity and anticipation. “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” is the
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Waltzes and Wonders
A Viennese New Year’s Dream
It’s almost 2025, and I think everybody should welcome the new year with some sparkling champagne; musical champagne that is! Personally, I think there is nothing better for musical bubbly than the New Year’s Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
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