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Vol: 136 | 15 Sep 2015 |
Enjoy a love letter to the Guinness Book of Records,
listen to Bosch’s Butt Song from Hell,
and does a conductor’s number of Twitter followers matter? |
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Music and Art:
Sound of Paintings II
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Max Klinger’s Music Expression
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Nina Simone
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Great Women Artists
Who Shaped Music
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Chinese Musical Instruments
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Silk
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Kronberg Academy Festival
First held in 1993 as an International Cello Festival, the biennial event has evolved into the biggest strings festival in Kronberg. Violinists, violists and cellists from a wide range of cultural backgrounds engage in a week-long musical dialogue, sharing their music in solo, chamber and orchestral concerts... |
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Date: September 26 to October 3, 2015
Country: Germany
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| What's New |
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| No Merits, No Skills? No Problem! |
Music and Art: Rossetti |
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Apparently, the most recent industry trend towards hiring people for important conducting positions is to engage individuals who have never conducted anything! Simon Standin, the general manager of the Southwest Sinfonia suggests, “We’ve found that hiring washed up soloists is cost effective media savvy and politically expedient..." |
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The Pre-Raphaelites as a group were founded in 1848 and quickly became a 7-man brotherhood. The group was started by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti who were then joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens, and Thomas Woolner... |
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| Hieronymus Bosch: Butt Song from Hell |
Meditations on humanity via the Guinness Book of Records |
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Is there music in hell? While some might consider serial compositions or hip-hop chanting hell on earth, the early Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), famous for his macabre and nightmarish depictions of hell, had some very concrete ideas what the eternally damned had to listen to in terms of music. |
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The quietest place on Earth. The tallest man on Earth. The oldest tree. The longest fingernails. Pi to 67,890 places. These are some of the world records featured in Sam Green’s new documentary-with-a-difference, The Measure of All Things... |
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| My music |
Video |
Forgotten records |
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Steve Reich – Music for
18 Musicians
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Rachmaninov:
Piano Trio No.1 in G-minor
“élégiaque” |
Bach:
Goldberg Variations
BWV 988 – Aria
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