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Mozart’s Party Piece?
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‘Gran Partita’ examined
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In tune / Arts :
St. Thomas in Leipzig
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Monument to the
Spirit of Humanity
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In essence / Roots :
The Riot of Spring!
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Vaslav Nijinsky and
Igor Stravinsky
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The International Music Festival Chopin and his Europe
First organized in 2005 by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, the festival was immediately recognized as a major artistic event...
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Date: August 15 to September 1, 2013
Country: Poland
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Back to Bach
Hindemith and Bach
In his Suite 1922, Paul Hindemith had not only referenced in popular music genres; he also paid homage to the gestures and aesthetic of the high Baroque... |
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Ravioli à la Paganini
In 1906, Gertrude Clarke of Belleview, Nebraska married Matthew John Whittall, who had made his substantial fortune producing and dealing in carpets and rugs... |
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Charles-Valentin Alkan
At one time or another, Charles-Valentin Alkan (1819- 1888) was mentioned in the same breath with Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt and even compared with Hector Berlioz... |
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Paris Ballet Now
The atmosphere was electric! We were at Paris’s Palais Garnier to attend a ballet performance just five days before the one-hundredth anniversary of the premiere of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in 1913... |
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My music |
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Jeajoon Ryu’s violin Caprice : Ilya Gringolts (violin)
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Bach Cantatas - Gardiner
Chorus – “Gott fähret auf
mit Jauchzen”
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Janson – Debussy – Pascal
Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor - Prologue
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