A "second line" in New Orleans (with video)
Probably no city in the country loves parades as much as New Orleans. As we all watch the progress of …Read the Rest
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Eastern Music Festival
The Eastern Music Festival has been an institution in Greensboro, North Carolina for almost 50 years now. This year’s Festival …Read the Rest
Rossini on Wagner
Some scholars have theorized that Rossini retired from composing operas after Guillaume Tell because he disliked the direction opera was …Read the Rest
Classical music for machines
The attempt to create music mechanically, without human performance, has a long history, dating back to ancient Egyptians and Asians. …Read the Rest
On the many, many songs of Franz Schubert
In 1827 the composer Hummel visited Vienna and brought his sixteen-year-old student Ferdinand Hiller with him. After seeing Hummel deeply …Read the Rest
Keeping the slide slick and slipping
Trombonists are the only instrumentalists who have to push a pair of tubes as much as two feet along a …Read the Rest
Niccolò Paganini: The devil’s violinist?
Niccolò Paganini became the world’s first international superstar of the violin beginning when he was 22. He could perform technical …Read the Rest
Past the last minute: a Mozart overture barely finished on time
When an opera performance starts, the overture is the first thing the audience hears, but it is the last thing …Read the Rest
The what? of Seville: animated opera
Not so long ago, quite a number of classical tunes were well known in popular culture. It has not entirely …Read the Rest
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