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Vol: 124 | 15 Mar 2015
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Meet with our new contributors
Frances Wilson and Charlotte Smith,
dance in Gardel’s “tango canción”,
and enjoy Verdi’s Macbeth.
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Frank Gehry
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Architecture:
Music in Motion
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A glimpse into the world
of amateur pianism
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Another layer of
music and passion
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How to Keep Teenagers
From Quitting Music
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Inspirations from
Wynn-Anne Rossi
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The Intimacy of Creativity
Conceived by Artistic Director and internationally-acclaimed composer, conductor, and pianist, Bright Sheng, The Intimacy of Creativity – The Bright Sheng Partnership: Composers Meet Performers in Hong Kong (IC) is an annual performance forum devoted to promoting an intimate dialogue between composers and performers. |
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Date: April 20 to May 3, 2015
Country: China
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| What's New |
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| Verdi’s Macbeth |
A Tear in his Throat |
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(Berliner Staatsoper im Schillertheater – 22 February 2015) It’s just another Sunday night in February at a Berlin opera house: Wolfgang Schaeuble, German Finance Minister, sits in the stalls with his wife and without visible security two days after negotiating one of the most critical debt restructuring deals with Greece... |
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Although the year and the place of birth of Carlos Gardel are passionately debated in both Uruguay and Argentina—we are fairly certain that he was actually born in France—he is nevertheless considered the most prominent figure in the history of the tango... |
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A Day in the Life
of A Musician I |
Instruments of the Orchestra III:
The Cello |
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I arrive at the foyer of the Rathborne auditorium, where the annual Youth Music Festival and Competition is held, and find myself surrounded by anxious parents and children, some waiting to register their names at the desk outside the hall and some tuning their instruments and trying to warm up quietly in the hallway. All I can hear is a cacophony of noises... |
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The orchestra string section rests on two supports: the double-basses and their smaller cousins, the cellos. I say cousins because the cello and the double bass actually have different antecedents. The cello is part of the violin family and the double bass from the viol family, about which more next time. The name cello is the shortened version of its full name, “violoncello”... |
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| My music |
Video |
Forgotten records |
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Astor Piazzolla: Escualo
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HKPhil Flash Mob Bolero
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Dohnanyi: String Quartet No. 2
in D flat major, op. 15
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