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April 1st, 2008
Matt Allen goes to music festivals and gives away ice cream
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
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At the heart of Brahms' first two symphonies, conductor Marin Alsop hears great joy, especially at the end, where both symphonies finish with a tri...
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
- Length: :21
You may have heard of Brahms' several attempts to write his first symphony as he struggled to come out from behind Beethoven's shadow. Conductor Ma...
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
- Length: :22
Today's movie stars and star athletes have it rough, between the paparazzi, critics, reporters and all the others who sit and judge. It's not a ne...
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
- Length: :26
The spoken language of classical music is filled with foreign names and phrases, and even conductors like Marin Alsop find it challenging to be mul...
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
- Length: :22
Before becoming the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop held leadership positions with the Long...
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
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March 31st, 2008
Getting started, whether you're writing a term paper, a novel or a piano concerto, can be tough. But you have to get off to a good start. That's ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :21
Conductor Marin Alsop has recorded most of Brahms' orchestral works during the last few years. Although Brahms' symphonies are epic in both sound ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :19
The Piano Concerto No. 5 by Saint-Saens is known as the "Egyptian" Concerto, because it includes a melody from a song Saint-Saens heard while vacat...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :25
With her constant jet setting from state to state, and continent to continent, violinist Sarah Chang says she's become a "frequent flyer mileage qu...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :24
The Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 begins quite dramatically with a thick, almost foggy texture. But, in the second movement, pianist Jean-Yves ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :19
Vivaldi wrote his set of violin concertos, known as the "Four Seasons," for the orchestra at an all-girls school and orphanage. For violinist Sara...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :23
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Star gazing, and our occasional infatuation with celebrities, dates back long before movies and television. Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet (ZHhahn-Ev...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :25
Calling a political opponent a "flip-flopper" is one of the more frequently heard accusations heard on the campaign trail. While changing one's vi...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :22
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays to the beat of a different conductor - they don't have one. Each member is a conductor or a "leader" as they p...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :22
As one builds and then maintains a career, there's the hope we'll maintain enough of the passion that initially inspired our career choice. It's n...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :22
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has recorded nearly every piano work by Erik Satie. His music could be melancholy and mysterious. Thibaudet says Sati...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :23
The cynical judgment often leveled against Vivaldi is he wrote the same concerto 100 times. Vivaldi fans respond to that charge with varying degre...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :22
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Irish poet Eavan Boland talks about why we cannot leave the past to the people who write the history books.
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: 12:43
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: 05:09
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