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It's Anti-Road Rage Wednesday and a little Mozart is going to straighten you out big-time.It's Anti-Road Rage Wednesday and a little Mozart is going to straighten you out... more
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There is something fascinating about the act of musical improvisation—that moment when a musician departs from the score, embarking on a thematically relevant, yet wholly spontaneous composition. We normally think of it as the province of jazz musicians, conjuring the iconic image of a sax player wailing through riffs in a smoky, dim-lit club. John Coltrane and Bill Evans were masters. Miles Davis was never much for rehearsal. He used to gather his band in the studio, rattle off a few suggestions for the broad shape each track should take, and hit record. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/album-rewievs/42963-the-improvisational-brainThere is something fascinating about the act of musical improvisation—that... more
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It's Anti-Road Rage Wednesday again! And for your Anger Management here is The Munich Chamber Orchestra live in concert in Paris playing music of Bach, Mozart and Haydn.It's Anti-Road Rage Wednesday again! And for your Anger Management here is The... more
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A big dose of Mozart for you culture vultures this Sunday. Featuring Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic in a live studio concert from 1947.A big dose of Mozart for you culture vultures this Sunday. Featuring Sir Thomas... more
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Watch KT Nelson discuss her new piece, "Labor of Love," which explores how this thing called love is just work. Set to Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Minor, Labor of Love celebrates the many layers of a relationship despite its hardships.
After you get a behind the scenes look with our podcasts, be sure to buy your ticket... to see the premieres at Dance Downtown at www.odcdance.org/downtown.Watch KT Nelson discuss her new piece, "Labor of Love," which explores how... more
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We've got quite a bit of hate mail over this video, I think it shows the point americans lost the power in this country and another said point of bud dwyer being forced to commit suicide over a stupid crime. DANGRABAT.COM does not encourage violence and we are anti-war. Just to clear the air there, we do not want people to get the wrong idea about our videos though many of them stir up raw emotion. Thats the goal anyway. Enjoy!We've got quite a bit of hate mail over this video, I think it shows the point... more
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The French rock band Phoenix is known for its infectious melodic hooks, '80s rock influences and '70s disco grooves that are custom made for listening at high volumes. Formed as part of the backing band for the French electronic duo Air, Phoenix recorded its first album, United, in 2000. That release featured the song "Too Young," a single that was prominently featured in Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost In Translation.
Since then, the band has found wider recognition, even being called "Rock's Great French Hope" by Rolling Stone magazine after its latest effort, this year's superb Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. The album has appeared on many critics' best of the year lists, thanks in part to the singles "Lisztomania" and "1901," which was featured in a recent Cadillac car commercial.
Host Scott Simon spoke to Thomas Mars and Laurent Brancowitz of Phoenix about their music — and about the album's title, which Brancowitz says his mother apparently didn't condone. "She's German, [so] playing around with the name of Mozart is like a crime," Brancowitz says. "When we told her the title, she laughed a lot and cried; that's when we knew it was a good title, when you have these kinds of reactions."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121346313The French rock band Phoenix is known for its infectious melodic hooks, '80s rock... more
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A BRITISH lad is being hailed as the new Mozart after just FOUR MONTHS of piano lessons.
Schoolboy Shane Thomas, practises for four hours a week but already plays to a staggering level and composes classical scores in his head.
He first sat down at a piano at the age of seven and could play almost instantly by ear.
Shane said: "I told Dad when I was three that I could play but nobody took me seriously. When I'm at school I can listen to the teacher and do my work while composing in my head. I remember the melodies, then when I get home I play them on the piano and Dad records them."
"I don't have a favourite style because I like all of them. I just find piano easy and never get nervous in front of audiences, however big."
Shane has written 22 classical pieces in the three years since being given his first keyboard by gran Maisie.
Shane's piano tutor, Richard Goffin-Lecar, has compared him to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who showed prodigious ability during his childhood in 18th Century Salzburg and went on to become among the most celebrated classical composers.
Mr Thomas said: "Aged seven, he got his first keyboard and within a day he could play it with both hands. Within weeks he played all sorts of complex music. And after four months he was performing to 2,000 people at a show in Manchester."A BRITISH lad is being hailed as the new Mozart after just FOUR MONTHS of piano... more
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Lucy of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” just died, but whatever happened to Peggy Sue, Sweet Caroline, Delilah, and Beethoven’s Elise?
Lucy Vodden—aka “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” passed away this week after a battle with lupus, reigniting the story behind the classic Beatles’ hit (Lucy and Julian Lennon were nursery school classmates). In our gallery, The Daily Beast takes a look back at the other great muses of rock, including Caroline Kennedy, Carole King, Rosanna Arquette, Peggy Sue, Mozart’s mistress, and a real-estate agent in California who goes by “Sharona.”Lucy of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” just died, but whatever happened... more
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Our critics’ survey of the music no classical fan should be without. For the complete list, visit the link above.Our critics’ survey of the music no classical fan should be without. For the... more
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Here are some unique and peculiarly odd musical instruments that all have interesting stories and traditions behind them.Here are some unique and peculiarly odd musical instruments that all have interesting... more
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The mysterious death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the tender age of 35 has long fascinated scholars, but researchers now have a new theory.The mysterious death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the tender age of 35 has long... more
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The music isn't new, but the discovery that a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "almost certainly" composed it is a stunning revelation.
The two compositions -- a concerto in G and a prelude in G -- have long been in the files at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, as anonymous works and were even published in the book "New Mozart Edition" in 1982.
Now Ulrich Leisinger, director of the foundation's research department, believes the works actually were composed by Mozart before he was old enough to write music, and that Mozart's father, Leopold, transcribed themThe music isn't new, but the discovery that a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart... more
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Two newly discovered works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written when he was just seven years old, have been performed in public for the first time.
A select audience of Austrian dignitaries and music scholars sat in the salon of the house in Salzburg devoted to the maestro's life to listen to the two newly discovered piano pieces. Recordings of the two pieces are available on the website of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg.
Music experts are convinced the pieces - a four-minute concerto for piano and a one-minute prelude - were composed by Mozart in 1763, when he was just seven or eight.Two newly discovered works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written when he was just seven... more
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Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" remains one of the most popular operas ever performed because, despite the comedy's 18th century birth and setting, it portrays real people in timeless situations of love and betrayal.
"'The Marriage of Figaro' opens the door to a new world of opera," wrote the legendary New York Times music critic Harold Schonberg. "It is a scintillating work with real people in it, and the music exposes them for what they are - lovable, vain, capricious, selfish, ambitious, forgiving, philandering. Human beings, in short, all brought alive by the alchemy of a surpassingly inventive and sympathetic musical mind."
The Green Mountain Opera Festival will present this masterpiece on Friday and Sunday, June 19 and 21, at the Barre Opera House, with an international conductor and perhaps the most lavish staging seen in Vermont to date.Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" remains one of the most popular... more
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Music has the power to touch our souls. Since listening to certain types of music soothes the mind and reduces anxiety, hospitals all over the US are trying out music therapy on patients suffering from ailments such as brain disorders, heart problems, and cancer, and are discovering it's helping speed up recovery time.
Dr. Claudius Conrad, a senior surgical resident at Harvard Medical School and a gifted pianist, says, “Research has already shown that if you play a piece — like Mozart — at a certain slow beat, the listener will adapt their heart beat to the beat of the music.”
Critically ill patients were able to take fewer sedatives when listening to classical piano sonatas, and their blood pressure and heart rates eased. Patients also had a 50 percent spike in pituitary growth hormone, which is known to stimulate healing. So it's not the fact that a song can make us smile — music can actually affect how the brain and body functions.
Classical music has been a top choice for doctors and surgeons since according to researchers at Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute in New Jersey, "vibrations of stringed instruments in particular are said to mesh with the energy of the heart, small intestine, pericardium, and thyroid and adrenal glands."Music has the power to touch our souls. Since listening to certain types of music... more
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