February 2012
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Listen Terry Gibbs Dream Band - “Tico tico no...
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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(photo by George Barris, 1962)
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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“Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why.”
–  Anton Webern
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Listen Ravel - “A la manière de Chabrier”...
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Today is also the birthday of English-American poet W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), who often turned his deeply lyrical voice to social and philosophical questions, believing that the artist should be “more than a bit of a reporting journalist.” IF I COULD TELL YOU Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know....
Feb 21st
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Segovia taught classes at the Accademia musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and also at the Música en Compostela in Spain. His most famous student was probably John Williams, who has told of a pervasive “atmosphere of fear” in the master’s guitar classes and, while acknowledging his debt, has also disparaged Segovia’s teaching style.  Terrence Malick’s newest film,...
Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Listen Stereolab - “Percolator” from...
Feb 21st
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the-snow-is-dancing asked: What are some good music schools in the country for a piano major?
Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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“The heart of a melody can never be put down on paper.”
–  Pablo Casals
Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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Listen Art Tatum - “St. Louis Blues” ...
Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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“The musician who plays always on the same string is laughed at.”
–  Horace
Feb 19th
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Listen Stanford - Serenade in F for strings and winds,...
Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Anonymous asked: What was the first piece of music you heard that really inspired you to choose music as a career and/or lifestyle?
Feb 19th
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Feb 17th
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Listen Beethoven - Overture to Fidelio, Op. 72b Chicago...
Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Mozart was for much of his life a fastidious keeper of journals. His entries often display a whimsical character, to say the least, as in this poignant description of the events of a day in 1780: About shitting, my humble self, a jackass, a hernia, again a jackass, and finally a nose, went to church, stayed home with blow my ass, blow my ass, feeling a bit out of sorts. After lunch Catherl came...
Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Listen Albéniz - España, Op. 165 II. Tango Esteban...
Feb 16th
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Listen Dohnányi - Violin Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op....
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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“The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest....”
–  Erik Satie
Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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Listen João Gilberto  - “Rosa morena” from...
Feb 14th
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