In a city passionate about classical music, a lot of listeners get their fill by catching the Boston Symphony Orchestra and other programming on the radio.
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“Secret Lives of Great Composers,” is a fun and enlightening book about more than 30 composers from Antonio Vivaldi (born 1678) to Philip Glass (born...
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This season actor Alec Baldwin "became the official announcer of the New York Philharmonic's weekly radio broadcasts. His involvement reflects an unusual...
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Prince George's struggling symphony orchestra shouldn't even exist. It has a mammoth $250,000 deficit. It will lose another $95,000 when the B.C. government...
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New York based ADS Software Group Inc. today introduces Classical Music 1.0, their new classical music compilation and quiz for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed...
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The sounds of Mozart might help slow premature infants' metabolism, potentially helping them to put on weight, according to an Israeli study. Israeli...
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Teresa Nielsen Hayden shares these truly beautiful videos of time-lapse photography shot in the Alps, with Beethoven compositions for the soundtrack. They're...
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While the vast majority of the cartoons of the 1930s-1950s made excellent use of popular music and original compositions, they also used classical music to great...
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What makes Jaroussky so very now is his determination to sing outside the Baroque box associated with countertenors. Jaroussky is a poster boy for a crop of...
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There's a lot of talk these days about reinventing Chinese classical music. Or maybe just reinventing its marketing, but in any case doing something to make it...
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Electronic experiments such as A Taylor Kuffner's Gamelatron, featuring a Balinese orchestra controlled by a laptop, could revolutionise live performances....
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The site that inspired hundreds of classical music blogs is no more. Fortunately Alex Ross continues his notes on music in Unquiet Thoughts. The Rest is Noise is...
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Whether they're performing with Thomas Adès, Andrew WK or David Letterman's house band, the Calder string quartet are blazing exciting new ground....
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SCHOLARS wishing to examine the manuscripts of the masters must expect to go out of their way, but since World War II several Mozart operas have required more effort...
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ONE OF THE MOST pleasing sounds to the human ear is probably the human voice raised in song. But, perhaps even a bit higher on our favorites list is the sound...
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Focusing on Simon Rattle's 2005 Asian tour with the Berlin Philharmonic, Thomas Grube's film is astute on the personalities and tensions that drive the...
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Audiences often ask about the role of a conductor, since he or she is the only person on stage who doesn't make a sound. Most of their work takes place before...
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The doors have shut at the UK's last large-scale piano manufacturer, Kemble & Co, which produced its final piano this week. Their main shareholder, Yamaha,...
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Distinguished musicologist known for his trailblazing work on Haydn and his books on Mozart. Few musicologists achieve true celebrity outside their specialist...
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Attracting new audiences is the perpetual problem for an art form which is often accused of being elitist, and it is one opera companies in the UK have been trying to...
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