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Vol: 115 | 1 Nov 2014
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Enjoy Mendelssohn’s String Quartets by Talich Quartet,
listen to Elgar's Enigma explained by Leonard Slatkin,
and discover the importance of Improvisation.
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What Happens When
It All Goes Wrong?
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Should they stop
or go on ?
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Devotional
Simplicity
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Mozart:
Ave verum corpus
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OH The Things
Audiences Say!
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Why didn’t you play
the flute?
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| Event |
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International Wimbledon
Music Festival
Founded and directed by Anthony Wilkinson, the festival is created to share the experience of hearing and meeting world class artists in the beautiful churches in Wimbledon. Since its launch in 2009, it has grown exponentially, and is now recognized as an annual feast of world-class music making in southwest London... |
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Date: November 8 to 23, 2014
Country: United Kingdom
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| What's New |
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| Mendelssohn and the String Quartet |
Musicality is nature; musical ability
is nurture |
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Felix Mendelssohn (1809 — 1847) started writing string quartets at a very early age – always precocious, he composed his String Quartet in E flat major in 1823, when he was just 14 (although it was not published until 50 years after his death)... |
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An article published in The Economist (‘Musical ability is in the DNA’) suggested that one’s musical ability is determined by genetics, any effort invested in trying to master musical skills will be fruitless if you are simply not born to be a musician... |
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| What Makes a Good Conductor? |
Repetition is life |
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What makes a good conductor? Ask any musician— you’ll get as many answers. Gone is the despotism and snarky remarks that were tolerated from great Maestros such as Arturo Toscanini, Fritz Reiner, George Szell and Sir Thomas Beecham... |
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One could argue that all creative process is improvisation: for that flash of creativity that generated the art, which distinguished whatever the artist was doing from merely replicating a past behaviour, was improvisation... |
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| Enjoy |
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| My music |
Video |
Forgotten records |
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Mozart: String Quartet No. 16
in E Flat Major, K.428/421b
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Enigma Variations personal
secrets of the piece.
At the PROMS
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Fauré: Quintet for Piano and
Strings No. 2 in C minor
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