Interlude Newsletter
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In tune:
Beyond
Bach
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Discover
the great
"Father of Music"
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In love:
Quintet
of Discontent
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What happened
between César Franck
and Augusta Holmès
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In tune:
The Classical Age
in Music and the Arts
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A period of
harmony, order,
balance and structure
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Verbier Music Festival
Perhaps there's one golden rule hidden in the minds of all music-festival-goers: seeing familiar faces of musicians will attract you to even the least promoted event. Such is perhaps the reason why Verbier does not need extensive verbal advertisement over their website...
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Date: 15.7 - 31.7.2011
Country: Switzerland
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Quintet of Discontent
The actress Madam Félicité Saillot Desmousseaux, better remembered as the dutiful wife of César Franck (1822-1890), greeted the arrival of her husband’s Piano Quintet in F minor with public condemnation, fiery scorn and a deeply professed hatred...
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Beyond Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach passed away 326 years ago, in July, so I thought what could have been better than starting my column here with the ‘Father of Music’, a composer with whom I have had a love-hate relationship… |
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Pinnock’s smile: baroque music at its best
There is an illuminating - if difficult to verify - account that, during the French Revolution, the harpsichords of the Paris Conservatoire were dismantled and used for firewood. Such stories are, sadly, recurring themes in times of instability... |
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The Classical Age in Music and the Arts
In the middle of the 18th century the last shadows of the Baroque faded into the more intimate, colorful and pastoral Rococo period. All of the art forms, particularly those in painting and music, emphasize the “artificial” disguised as the “natural”... |
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Olympics 2012: Ten things you never knew
about national anthems
Did you know the Congo national anthem asks: “And if we have to die/ Does it really matter?” Here are more facts about national anthems...
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