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Vol: 113 | 1 Oct 2014
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Appreciate the beauty of Japanese music traditions,
join the Minnesota Orchestra at the Sibelius Concert Hall,
and why are male harpists so rare?
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The Kreutzer Sonata
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Beethoven-Tolstoy-
Janačék
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Tango Beyond
Piazzolla
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‘A-B-C’ in
tango music
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Improvisation is Life
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Openness, preparation
and courage
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Festival Verdi
Festival Verdi has been an annual tradition in Parma since 2004; named after one of the greatest Italian opera composers of the 19th century, Giuseppe Verdi. With the goal of presenting every Verdi Opera by the bicentennial year of the composer’s birth, the Regio Theatre of Parma celebrates the works of the Maestro...
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Date: October 10 to November 4, 2014
Country: Italy
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| What's New |
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| Recycling and the Music Trade |
Why Are Male Harpists So Rare? |
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Recycling isn’t a new idea and one of the very odd ways in which instrument makers could benefit was in how they acquired their leather for making the pads for their woodwind instruments. In this image of a horse-drawn funeral hearse, look at the hands of the driver... |
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Music is, unfortunately, no stranger to sexism. Right through the pop world to the lands of orchestras and opera, gender bias occurs more often than people wish to admit. So why do more girls play the harp, and how did it end up like that in the first place? |
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| FINNISH Finish – A Tour Story |
A Walk in a Japanese Garden
Tōru Takemitsu |
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Any veteran musician has some outstanding tour stories to tell. Here is one of mine. The climax of the 2004 Minnesota Orchestra European tour was our performance in Finland. Our new Music Director Osmo Vänskä, a native of Finland, was coming home... |
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Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996) fell in love with western classical music via American forces radio broadcasts during the post-war U.S. occupation of Japan. “I hated everything about Japan at that time because of my experience during the war...” |
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Video |
Forgotten records |
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C.P.E Bach: Magnificat Wq 215 /
Heilig ist Gott Wq 217 –
Symphony in D major Wq 183/1
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Han-Na Chang –
Denis Matsuev –
Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra
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Mozart: Quartet for flute, violin,
viola and cello in
D major, K. 285
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