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Counting the Vagaries
Currents headed eastward… An email from a librarian…
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Used Bin Troll Tweets NNN.
An alternate Requiem alongside a dramatic Mass by a prolific opera composer.
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Used Bin Troll Tweets NNN.
An alternate Requiem alongside a dramatic Mass by a prolific opera composer.
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A Listener’s Predicament (Also, A Concert Review)
While I do admire the impossible purity provided by engineered recordings, live events really are more satisfying for the combination of serendipity and determinism.
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A Listener’s Predicament (Also, A Concert Review)
While I do admire the impossible purity provided by engineered recordings, live events really are more satisfying for the combination of serendipity and determinism.
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Partly Present
Festivals inevitably vary in content, purpose and reliability.
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Used Bin Troll Tweets MMM (noting a few awards too)
Yet again, further evidence that a particular curmudgeon won’t gently abide.
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Used Bin Troll Tweets MMM (noting a few awards too)
Yet again, further evidence that a particular curmudgeon won’t gently abide.
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Used Bin Troll Tweets LLL.
Montgeroult survived the Reign of Terror and is represented with 29 of 114 études.
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Used Bin Troll Tweets LLL.
Montgeroult survived the Reign of Terror and is represented with 29 of 114 études.
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Piano Factory 32.
I hear the last four sonatas as a connected sequence where Walker’s system appears to value compact expression over logic.
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Piano Factory 32.
I hear the last four sonatas as a connected sequence where Walker’s system appears to value compact expression over logic.
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Dvořák’s Prophecy, Shostakovich as Cure and Beethoven in Boston
Should you read one book on music this year, then this is the one.
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Dvořák’s Prophecy, Shostakovich as Cure and Beethoven in Boston
Should you read one book on music this year, then this is the one.
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Silvestrov in 2022 / Mostly Symphonies 42.
The thing is, we take Silvestrov’s nostalgic, weepy pieces differently now that he is an exile in Germany. I encourage a closer look at Symphony No. 5 from 1980-82.
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Silvestrov in 2022 / Mostly Symphonies 42.
The thing is, we take Silvestrov’s nostalgic, weepy pieces differently now that he is an exile in Germany. I encourage a closer look at Symphony No. 5 from 1980-82.
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A Ramble, Fairly Eclectic, with Turntables
Still Point was a reaction to surviving WWII in London.
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A Ramble, Fairly Eclectic, with Turntables
Still Point was a reaction to surviving WWII in London.
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Used Bin Troll Tweets KKK.
Exhausting and exhilarating, and elemental.
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A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
Beth Levin and Max Derrickson discuss Beth’s upcoming recital and recording featuring Liszt’s Sonata in B minor and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
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A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
Beth Levin and Max Derrickson discuss Beth’s upcoming recital and recording featuring Liszt’s Sonata in B minor and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.