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Mar 15, 2013 • The prism is an aluminum cube, small enough to fit in your palm. It was designed by Jaar as a new medium for releasing music. This first release – CSA001 – features twelve (mostly) unreleased songs from Jaar and other Clown & Sunset collaborators. The prism is a piece of art in and of itself;...
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Mar 8, 2013 • Anna Pavlova was a Russian Empire ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th century. She is widely regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev.
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Mar 8, 2013 • Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores and several musicals and has made well over a hundred albums. He has won three Oscars (out of 13 nominations) and five Grammys and has been nominated for an Emmy. He was twenty-two when his first album, I Love Paris, became one of the...
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Mar 4, 2013 • LONDON — Pianists can be bells-and-whistles showmen (Lang Lang, Liberace, Liszt) or soberly remote (Sviatoslav Richter, Rachmaninoff). But by tradition they are the mavericks of the music world, who spend long hours in small rooms poring over solo repertory that turns them into either thinkers or eccentrics. Maybe both. And an example of the thinking...
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Mar 2, 2013 • It would be hard to find two composers more unlike each other than Mozart, the prodigious prodigy, and Bruckner, whom success eluded until he was 60. Fragments of Mozart’s unfinished opera Zaïde were found after his death; thankfully these include the exquisite soprano aria, Ruhe sanft, meine holdes Leben. The premiere of Bruckner’s grand Seventh...
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Feb 28, 2013 • Jascha Heifetz made the first recording of the Sibelius concerto. Heifetz held it to be one of the great romantic concertos in the violin repertoire. What might be considered an authoritative interpretation of the concerto belongs to Ida Haendel. When Sibelius heard her perform it on the radio in Finland, he commented afterwards that she...
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Feb 23, 2013 • It’s really awesome to be in the presence of genius, especially genius that has been realized and refined for longer than you’ve been alive. And even more so when the genius at hand is totally unpretentious and hilarious. __ A player of legendary renown, Itzhak Perlman is a musician who exceeds mere superlatives. He is...
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Feb 18, 2013 • Steven Ellison, known by the stage name of Flying Lotus, is an experimental multi-genre music producer, laptop musician, and rapper from Los Angeles, California. He is the great-nephew of the late jazz pianist Alice Coltrane, and her husband saxophonist John Coltrane. He is also the cousin of musician Ravi Coltrane. Additionally, he is the grandson...
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Feb 18, 2013 • The Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano by César Franck is one of his best known compositions, and considered one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written. It is an amalgam of his rich native harmonic language with the Classical traditions he valued highly, held together in a cyclic framework....
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Feb 17, 2013 • It was a pleasure to see and hear the elegant Hough performing with the charismatic Heras-Casado. The gestations of Liszt’s concerto and Prokofiev’s symphony could not have been more different; even so, the singular result was two glorious works that are perpetual listener favorites. Liszt took 22 years to compose and revise (and revise again)...
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Feb 14, 2013 • We loved John Neumeier and the Hamburg Ballet's exploration of the troubled psyche of genius dancer Nijinsky. We were enthralled by Neumeier's beautiful choreography, costumes, sets and lighting. Check out one of the remaining performances through February 19th.
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The name Clint Mansell may or may not sound very familiar, but one thing is for sure, his film scores most likely will, as he is the man responsible for the music behind some of the most interesting films of the past decade. I first heard of this English musician & composer when I was...
