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The harsh critique and the hack-job

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The concerto ain't over 'til the soloist plays the credenza!

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Debussy at 150

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Tuesday trills

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The audience we want, the audience we got

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Where's the wow?

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The one hit wonders of classical music

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When music programming becomes morally fraught

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The plight of the Ives House

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The composer who captured La Belle Époque
He counted among his friends the crème de la crème  of turn-of-the-century Paris: Alphonse Da
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The wise elder and the snotty punk

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Happy birthday to two classical elders

Two distinguished elders of classical composition celebrate birthdays on Tuesday, each of them giving sound to the folklores, aspirations and even soils of their native lands and peoples.  Ind

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Real Singers Don't Use Microphones

That was the message on the t-shirt of an audience member last Saturday night at Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY.  My wife, Ann, an

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Woodman, Spare That Piano!

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Yet another Great American (Boing Boing!) Symphony

We left one work out of our recent WFCR series of Great American Symphonies (see this and subsequent posts).  Like all maj

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