Tag: music
group name: theconversation
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September 10, 2007 06:58 AM EDT --
Sunday's pick of the day: On the Media reviews a Pakistani movie called "In the Name of God". It's a story about two brothers, music and religion. The two brothers are musicians. . . . more
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July 18, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson talks on On Point about the Long Tail. Chris wrote his article in Wired a couple of years ago and has been the talk of internet business people ever since. . . . more
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May 28, 2008 10:34 AM EDT --
Philip Glass is America's most famous living classical composer, and, for decades, one of its most controversial. He's brought new audiences to classical music, and new music to the classical . . . more
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June 06, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
The Great Depression was winding down. FDR was in the White House. Joe Louis had flung into the boxing ring while Amelia Earhart had taken over the skies. And the sounds of swing were sweeping . . . more
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May 27, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
"In the Heights" is the hottest ticket on Broadway right now. It's a salsa, hip-hop, musical about immigrant Latino life in Manhattan's Washington Heights. It has Bodegas, . . . more
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February 11, 2008 02:52 PM EST --
Shostakovich was on a roll in the 1920s. His First Symphony, a graduation piece from his final days at the Leningrad Conservatory, catapulted him to international stardom and secured for him . . . more
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February 26, 2008 09:38 AM EST --
Especially with a maestro like Levine at the helm of the Boston Symphony , we've gotten used to hearing huge masterpieces—works that exploit the grandeur, the huge sound and dexterous playing . . . more
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February 01, 2008 12:20 PM EST --
It seems like symphony concerts across the country offer the opportunity to see only one soloist per evening. We generally hear one concerto in between a shorter overture and a symphony, and . . . more
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March 18, 2008 03:12 PM EST --
With the recent passing of Craig Smith, founder and Artistic Director of Emmanuel Music, Boston has grown a little more sensitive to the music of Bach. Early music has always flourished here, . . . more
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March 24, 2008 11:05 AM EST --
A brief stint as a busker in Harvard, performing as a living statue called "The Eight Foot Bride." A B.A. from Wesleyan. A period founding and developing the street theater . . . more
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March 11, 2008 09:36 AM EST --
A number of great maestros have conducted the BSO this season including (but not limited to) Bob Spano, Fruhbeck de Burgos, Sir Colin Davis, Cristoph von Dohnanyi, Charles Dutoit, and of course James . . . more
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May 02, 2008 11:01 AM EDT --
For the final performance of the 2007-2008 Boston Symphony Orchestra season, James Levine leads the orchestra in perhaps the most audacious, and certainly the most extensive, program of his tenure in . . . more
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