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Vol: 133 | 1 Aug 2015
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Enjoy Zwilich’s Flute Concerto with Dwyer,
follow Herschel’s discovery of the stars,
and listen to the voices of the Shanghai Conservatory.
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The Best of
Tchaikovsky
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Reflections on the
2015 Tchaikovsky Competition
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Too Good for
Hong Kong
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Support for
local artistic talents
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Music and Art:
Gericault
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The double tragedy
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Lucerne Festival in Summer
The prestigious Lucerne Festival had first begun in 1938 in the gardens facing Richard Wagner’s villa in Tribschen. Its first season had featured the legendary Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini conducting an élite orchestra specially assembled for the occasion... |
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Date: August 14 to September 13, 2015
Country: Switzerland
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| Voices of the Shanghai Conservatory I |
Apple Music |
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Shanghai’s Municipal Orchestra, later to become the Shanghai Symphony, began subscription concerts in 1919. Under the direction of the expatriate Italian virtuoso Mario Paci, the orchestra relied exclusively on foreign players and rarely strayed beyond Shanghai’s colonial settlements. Over time, the orchestra reached out to the Chinese population... |
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Music has been part of the Jobs-era Apple brand ever since the iconic ‘Silhouette’ iPod adverts that bewitched a generation. Its focus on popular music identified Apple as a company of the young– its products, especially the iPod, became essential accessories for the high-school student, university undergraduate and hip young professional alike... |
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| The Great Women Artists Who Shaped Music VIII- Doriot Anthony Dwyer |
William Herschel: Composer to the Stars |
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When Doriot Anthony Dwyer, flutist was selected as the first woman principal player in a top five U.S. orchestra the press went crazy, “Woman Crashes Boston Symphony: Eyebrows Lifted as Miss Anthony sat at Famous Flutist’s Desk,” “Flutist, 30 and Pretty, Here with Boston Symphony.” (Boston Globe, 10/12/1925) She had broken not a glass ceiling but a concrete one! |
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When William Herschel peered into the night sky on 13 March 1781, he noticed something rather peculiar. One of the celestial bodies he had been observing through his homemade telescope was moving oddly across the sky, and Herschel initially thought that he had found a new comet. After further observations and extended discussions with colleagues and friends, however, Herschel came to the realization that he was not looking at a comet or a star... |
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| My music |
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Forgotten records |
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Johannes Brahms – Sonatas
for clarinet and piano op.120 /
6 Klavierstücke op.118
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The Quarrymen:
That’ll be the Day
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Saint-Saëns: Fantasy for
Violin and Harp, Op. 124
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