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Schumann Bicentennial
June 8 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann, one of the more colorful (and perhaps tortured) of the major composers. It's an excellent opportunity to reexamine his music, and perhaps rediscover some of it as well.
A Living Composer A Day
How many living composers do you know? How much music by living composers is in your collection?
Engaging Fanfares from Toronto
The Festival not only presented three new compositions to the world. It also let the world respond to them. Now that's an exciting concept.
#Operaplot 2010: The Denouement
When I blogged about the #Operaplot Twitter competition last week, I promised an update with a list of winners and how my entry fared. Music critic Marcia Adair hosts a yearly competition on Twitter, where the challenge is to sum up an opera in 140 characters or less.
In Memoriam: Giulietta Simionato
Simionato's death spells the end of an era of full-voiced, full-blooded Italian singing.
The #OperaPlot Thickens
The challenge was two-fold: tweeters had to come up with clever and innovative ways of summing up an opera, and readers had to figure out which opera was being summed up.
Charting a new course away from the charts
We don't program our classical music to be an upscale substitute for Muzak -- lots of lush, orchestral music with a smattering of pleasing piano renderings for your background listening pleasure.
Alt-Classical Aston
The interface between popular and classical music always holds the promise of innovation -- a promise not often realized.
More on Encores
Today, when even the dreariest and most routine performance is received with the perfunctory standing ovation, the encore seems to have lost its significance.
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