tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157635482025-10-20T15:49:31.990-05:00"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous HuxleyChad Hillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544293856171417526noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15763548.post-49396866895615911742007-11-23T20:01:00.000-06:002007-11-23T20:55:38.875-06:00

The 5 Browns are rising stars in the music world, appealing not only to Classical Music fans but also to other music lovers as well. The group is made up of five siblings, all of which attended Julliard. On their latest CD, Browns in Blue, we get a chance to hear them in music ranging from classical to jazz. There's even a track with The 5 Browns playing along through the magic of technology

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As someone who has had the privilege of recently enjoying the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, I figured I would write a little about Gian Carlo Menotti who passed away yesterday.Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Cadegliano-Viconago, Italy on July 7th, 1911. Menotti began writing songs when he was only 7 years old. He wrote a full opera, The Death of Pierrot, including the libretto, when he was

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Ok. I know. I've been posting way too much about Mozart lately! I just can't help it. I'm sorry.This is certainly worthy of a post, though!!!I just found out that Mozart's "Verzeichnis aller meiner Werke" is now available in a super high-tech format to browse for free at the British Library's website.This is a journal that Mozart himself kept with a chronology of his composed works and a

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Well, I'm back from a long break. First off, I want to wish everyone a very happy new year!! Not only is it a new year, but it is a "Mozartean" new year. That's right, in case you haven't heard, 2006 will mark Mozart's 250th birthday. So be prepared to hear about Mozart quite a lot.Speaking of Mozart, I just came across the results from a poll conducted by Classic FM asking users what they felt

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Norman Lebrecht from La Scene Musicale has thoroughly discredited himself and, also, caused an outcry of outrage on message boards and blogs all over with his recent article entitled "Too much Mozart makes you sick."Lebrecht shows that he is completely unfamiliar with the works and history of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His article is full of inaccuracies. He goes as far as to state that Mozart's

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Gone is another of the world's best pianists. Gyorgy Sandor died at the age of 93 from heart failure at his home in Manhattan.Sandor was a pupil of Bela Bartok and one of the biggest champions of the Hungarian composer's works. He also studied composistion with Kodaly at the Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary. He settled in the United States after his Carnegie Hall debut in 1939.He had a wide

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When I go to the gym, I usually just listen to whatever they are playing no matter how bad it is because I'm too cheap to buy an mp3 player. I do wonder though what I would listen to if I did have one. I love Classical Music, obviously, but I wonder what kind of workout companion it would be.The Well-Tempered Blog highlights an article about just that.The article, written by Wayne Lee Gay for the

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Do you have a tune or melody stuck in your head and you can't figure out what it is? Enter Musipedia, a searchable collection of tunes, melodies and musical themes.There is nothing more annoying than having a melody stuck in your head and not knowing what is it is!! Musipedia has saved me from such delerium numerous times since I discovered it.From Musipedia's site:"Musipedia uses the "

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As the BBC gears up for their Bach Christmas spectacular beginning on December 16th, I suggest you check out the nifty Bach Advent Calendar.To quote the BBC's site:"BBC Radio 3 will be celebrating Christmas 2005 by broadcasting continuously over ten days the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach. The composer's entire surviving body of work will be performed by some of the world's greatest

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The Grammy nominations list was released yesterday.Here is the link to go straight to the Classical nominations.I love how they put it at the very bottom of the category listings as if it is some kind of afterthought. I don't see why Rap and Polka should be listed before Classical Music!! I would venture to say that rap isn't even music.Do they even show the Classical awards given out on the

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It took one of the most powerful X-Rays in the world, but scientists were able to prove conclusively at last that Ludwig van Beethoven died from lead poisoning. They focused the beam on six pieces of his hair and small fragments of his recently discovered skull.The study took place at the Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory outside of Chicago. It had long been speculated that lead

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Get out your recording of Mozart's Requiem and give it a spin, for on this day in 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart passed away."Lacrimosa dies illa, Qua resurget ex favilla Iudicandus homo reus." - "Ah! That day of tears and mourning! From the dust of earth returning man for judgement must prepare him."Mozart died around 1 A.M. while working on the very Requiem I have just quoted. An eerie thought

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Everyone is well aware of the fact that in general today's youth seem to be pretty uninterested in Classical Music. This worries me as Classical Musicians are aging fast and someone needs to step in eventually to fill their shoes.The El Paso Symphony Orchestra may have the solution to get today's youngsters involved in the music making process. They have announced that they will be starting

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The recently discovered Beethoven score that I posted on in Ludwig van Beethoven's Lost Manuscript has been sold at auction for an astonishing 1.9 million dollars.An anonymous buyer bought the score that was expected to go for up to 2.6 million dollars.The "Grosse Fuge" was written by Beethoven in 1826, a year before his death. The manuscript contains numerous corrections and deletions by the

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Aidin Vaziri from the San Francisco Chronicle thinks so. With the recent Sony BMG spyware scandal it looks like the nails in the compact disc's coffin may have been placed.Digital music sales are quickly outpacing the sales of compact discs. See Apple iTunes in the top 10 record sellers list. Now there is a near infinite amount of free and legal music to be found online.Vaziri points out plenty

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(Note: While you are reading this, be sure to download the many different recordings of this work with eMusic's free trial. You get 50 mp3s for free no matter what with no obligations.)It only took Robert Schumann 4 days in April of 1838 to write Kreisleriana, 8 Fantasies for Piano, Op. 16. In the score, Schumann dedicated the work to Chopin. However, like many of his compositions, Kreisleriana

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Have you ever wondered why a large percentage of opera singers are quite rotund? Well, Peter Osin, a consultant at London's Royal Marsden Hospital has formulated a scientific theory that sounds pretty convincing to me the Biology major/Classical Music lover.Osin suggests that lung cells are able to release certain hormones including leptin, the number-one suspect attributed to obesity. The

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Happy Thanksgiving to all of my devoted readers!!!Now would be a good time to give a listen to some American composers. So get out your Ives, Barber, Bernstein and Copland. Be thankful for all of their wonderful music.Perhaps listening to Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" would be pretty appropriate.I hope everyone has a fantastic day,Chad

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For the first time, Apple iTunes has made the list of the top 10 US record sellers. According to NPD, iTunes came in at number seven, beating Tower Records, Sam Goody and Borders.NPD claims that iTunes moved onto the list within the last three months. Russ Crupnick of NPD says that he sees it possible for iTunes to move up even more on that list in the future.Digital sales of music accounted for

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Dresden was one of the most damaged cities after World War II. One of the biggest losses was the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady). Bach played organ at this church on multiple occasions. Also, it was the site of the premiere of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 on October 9, 1920.Not until 1990 did the people of Dresden decide to rebuild the famous church. They were painstakingly accurate in their

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Now I think this is kind of silly. Mezzo-Soprano Stephanie Blythe was to play a black woman in the Royal Opera's production of Un Ballo in Maschera (The Masked Ball). For the rehearsal she was "blacked-up" as the expression goes. Seems pretty reasonable to me as she is a white woman who was playing a black woman.However, novelist Philip Hensher wrote that he was schocked to see this at the

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Research done by Stanford University has shown that musical training can help the brain to process the spoken word increasing children's reading ability. The study proved that musical training helps to distinguish rapidly changing sounds which is key to language development. The study solidifies the notion that musical training can help increase cognitive abilities."What this study shows, that's

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History will be made this Sunday when for the first time ever a woman will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic. Australian Simone Young will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Overture to Candide, Aaron Copland's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra and excerpts from Gustav Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Robert Schumann's Symphony Number Four.The Vienna

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eMusic has now established itself as the leader in the digital music competition at least in terms of Classical Music. Naxos, a leading classical music label with over 4,000 albums to their name, has partnered with eMusic. The entire Naxos catalog is now available for download from eMusic.eMusic is the only major digital music service to deliver music in the universally compatible MP3 format, the

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Moscow-born conductor Valery Gergiev has been awarded the Polar Music Prize worth one million Swedish Crowns (about 130,000 dollars). The award was founded by Stig Anderson, the publisher, lyricist and manager of Abba.The chairman of the award committee, Ake Holmquist said, "The 2006 Polar Music Prize is awarded to the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev for the way his unique, electrifying musical

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