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The new production of Tosca at the Met caused an enormous uproar of epic proportions. While the new production pleased some, it inspired near riot...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: :22
Piotr Anderszewski’s association with Beethoven’s music goes back a long way. It’s a connection he cherishes, but like all relationships, they’ve ...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: :25
A middle school in North Hollywood, CA is expanding its music curriculum beyond the traditional orchestra, band and choir. Oakwood Secondary Schoo...
Bought by WBHM
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
To clap or not to clap – that's the concert hall debate that continues to rage in various circles. In Beethoven and Mozart's day, applauding was w...
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: :23
The Bach Suites for Solo Cello are revered by cellists. Many call them their "Bible." One of those Bach Bible-toting cellists is Zuill Bailey. He...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :21
Like most of his countrymen and women, Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski is proud of Chopin's Polish connection, but he says Chopin has other conne...
- Added: Feb 22, 2010
- Length: 01:13
Men who catch lobsters for a living are only human
- Added: Feb 22, 2010
- Length: 01:35
Violinist Hilary Hahn performed on the Tonight Show in March 2010. The late night show had been in the news lately with a little hosting drama. D...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jan 13, 2010
- Length: :22
- Purchases: 1
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra operates under a management approach known as “collective leadership.” Conductor Robert Spano is clearly in charge,...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and WETS
- Added: Dec 31, 2009
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 2
Some obsessions and compulsions are better than others, and conductor Lorin Maazel admits that at one point in his career, he spent too much time a...
Bought by WXXI Rochester, KVLU, KUHF, and BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 4
There are many stories of those who made it to Woodstock, and those who never went. What about those who, well, "almost" made it?
Bought by CKMO
- Added: Aug 13, 2009
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 1
The English horn is a specialty instrument -- a longer, deeper version of the oboe. One of the English horn's best known moments comes with the lo...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 1
It's not uncommon for performers to study the historical and theoretical aspects of the music they play. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein knows her hist...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :25
Beethoven's last piano sonata contains one of classical music's all-time most shocking moments. Right in the middle of the sonata, without warning...
Bought by MPR News Stations
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :25
- Purchases: 1
You may have heard that the future of the recording industry is somewhat up in the air as new technologies make it possible to access music in new ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :22
Conductor Arturo Toscanini was known as the poster child for bad behavior on the podium. Fortunately, the days of the yelling, screaming, raging t...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :25
Although the practice is as old as music itself, taking a piece of music for one instrument and adapting it to another still causes scowls and glar...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :19
Beethoven's music is not always about the DRAMA. You can hear sweetness and joy, emotion and humor, fire and passion, and in the case of the third...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :19
For the Canadian Brass, their dream to play in Carnegie Hall came true in part because the players happily did something most musicians avoid, or d...
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: :22
It is, or was at one time, classical music’s forbidden word – or act: "Crossover"... playing music that's not 100% classical. Flutist, Sir James ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2008
- Length: :26
If you've ever seen the pianist Lang Lang play, you know he performs with great animation and enormous, physical gusto. Here's a little background...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :24
Performers, their teachers and their audience demand perfection. Since perfection really can't be achieved, that puts musicians in a compromising ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :26
Chile experimented with social reforms and suffered its own 9/11
- Added: Aug 28, 2008
- Length: 36:28
How a fragile woman of Dutch descent became one of the most powerful women in U.S. business.
- Added: Aug 26, 2008
- Length: 11:18
Hong Kong commemorated the Tiannanman Square massacre in Beijing.
- Added: Aug 06, 2008
- Length: 22:08
