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In tune / Society :
Turtle Song
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Music making with
dementia participants
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In person :
Cheeky Budding
Conductors
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Podiums I Have Not Known
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In essence / Anecdotes :
Le Roi Soleil
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Louis XIV of France
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Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Opened in 1998, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is Germany's largest opera house and concert hall. The venue hosts four festivals throughout the year, namely the Easter, Whitsun, Summer, Autumn and Winter Festivals...
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Date: March 23 to April 1, 2013
Country: Germany
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Is Audience Behaviour a Fair Measure of Civility?
Even now, I often see our press and expert critics sigh about the behaviour of audiences when they talk about concerts, as if whether they applauded between movements is the only standard... |
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Grandes Ambitions!
Wagner, Auber, and Rossini
During his tenure in Magdeburg (1834-6) and Riga (1837-8), Richard Wagner rehearsed and conducted the opera La muette de Portici (The Mute Girl of Portici)... |
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Pretty Servants
and a Mad King
Richard Wagner & Ludwig II
Having been unceremoniously evicted from Mr. Wesendonck’s Zürich property, Richard Wagner aimlessly wandered around Europe... |
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Tempting Fate!
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 6 in A minor (1903-1904)
In 1901, Gustav Mahler first met Alma Schindler, Vienna’s most eligible Bachelorette. Alma took painting lessons from Gustav Klimt and composition lessons from Josef Labor and Alexander Zemlinsky... |
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My music |
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Karl Leister plays
Poulenc Clarinet sonata
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Schubert – Piano Sonata D.845 /
“Wandererfantasie” D.760 /
4 Impromptus D.935 /
Moments Musicaus D.780
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Dvorak – Kodaly – Villa-Lobos
Dvorak: Quintet for Piano and Strings in A major, Op. 81, B. 155 –
Allegro ma non tanto
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