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Why Music?
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The healing power
of Arts
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Morning Call!!
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Rise in Music
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The Magic of the
Licorice Stick!
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Buffet Crampon
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Budapest Spring Festival
Established in 1980, the event is one of Hungary’s most prominent cultural festival that attracts music and art enthusiasts from all around the world every year...
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Date: March 21 to April 6, 2014
Country: Hungary
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| Pierre de Manchicourt |
The Monteverdi Puzzle
Vespers for the Blessed Virgin |
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In 1554, a remarkable wedding ceremony took place at Winchester Cathedral. The bride was described as “a faded little woman with red hair and no eyebrows.” That little woman was no other than Mary Tudor who recently had staked her claim to the English throne... |
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The musicologist Denis Arnold once famously suggested that to perform the Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin), composed by Claudio Monteverdi is “to court disaster.” Arnold further asserts, “To write about it is to alienate some of one’s best friends...” |
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| Music in Murakami |
Musical Autograph Books |
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Those familiar with the novels of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami know that there are recurring themes throughout his books such as jazz, cats, and women’s ears, to name just a few. In his 2002 novel, Kafka On The Shore, we meet not jazz, but classical music... |
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Starting in the 16th century with small albums created by fellow classmates and continuing into the 20th century with the rise of musical groupies (actually, this started much earlier), the autograph book is an interesting view into the relationship between musicians and their audience... |
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| Selected videos |
My music |
Forgotten records |
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Bach on Footpiano
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Matthew Tommasini
Crescent Moon,
Let Me Love You
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Schubert
String Quartet No. 8 in B flat major, D. 112 - Allegro ma non troppo
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