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In tune:
Picasso and Music
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Explore the connection
between the artist
and compositions
Composer of the Month:
Ferdinand Ries
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The most notable
friend and pupil
of Beethoven
In tune:
Souvent Me Souvient
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Check out the history of
St. John’s College
and its Choir
 

 
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London Handel Festival
Established in 1978, the London Handel Festival has given great devotion to the revival of Handel’s music by promoting the lesser-known repertoires by the composer...

Date: 14.3 - 01.5.2011
Country: United Kingdom
   
 
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Cyprien Katsaris Piano Recital
The "lyrical tenor of the piano" invites you on a musical odyssey through time and space...

Date: March 12, 2011

 

 
 
 
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Picasso and Music
"There is Music in Picasso and Picasso is in Music".
The current exhibition of ‘Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914’ at Museum of Modern Art in New York lets us consider the close relationship between art and music...
 
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Souvent Me Souvient
The Mediaeval French motto “souvent me souvient” given to St John’s College by it’s founder Lady Margaret Beaufort is as potent in this Quincentenary year as it was when the College was founded in 1511...
 
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Fellini and Rota: filming music
Italian composer Nino Rota wrote several operas, ballets and concerti, but he is best known for his cinema soundtrack work. Indeed, from the 1940s until his death, in 1979, there seem to be few great Italian films he did not write the score for...
 
 
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A Social Media Symphony
YouTube brings together musicians from around the world for an online symphonic masterpiece. After uploading winning performances, an entire cyber-orchestra will meet in the very real surrounds of the Concert Hall...

 

 
 
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Ferdinand Ries (1784 – 1838) was a German composer and the most notable friend and pupil of Ludwig van Beethoven. Born in 1784, he was blinded in one eye from smallpox. Raised in a musical family, Ries’ father was a pianist and violinist...

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The Choir of St John's College performs
Cantique de Jean Racine by Fauré
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One of the finest collegiate choirs in the world perform a series of choral classics dated from early sixteenth century to 2007...
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Tchaikovsky:
1. Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36
2. Capriccio italien, op. 45

Performed by
-Orchestre Philharmonique Tchèque
1. Hajibeyov Niyazi, conductor
2. Karel Sejna, conductor

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