December 2011
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Dec 29th
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“Music has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.”
– Nadia Boulanger
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte...”
– Robert Schumann
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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WatchWatch
Benjamin Zander on music and passion.
Dec 27th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 18th
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bach did what?
musicalmelody: http://bachdidwhat.tumblr.com/ How did I not realize this tumblr existed before? Probably the greatest thing ever.
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“At the root of all power and motion there is music and rhythm, the play of...”
– George Leonard
Dec 17th
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The brief moment before the conductor’s anacrusis is the loudest, longest silence I will ever hear. I love it.
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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I feel the need to become more musically diverse.
Well, diverse in the classical music world. I listened over and over to the pieces in our repertoire and names like Saint-Saens, both Strauss-es, Grieg, Prokofviev, Gershwin, Elgar, and Rossini haven’t turned up in months. I shall explore tonight. I actually had #68 in the Top 100 Most Popular Classical Pieces for a few hours today, but I forgot the name of it. I thought I might find it in...
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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“Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves...”
– Claude Debussy
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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“The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.”
– Arnold Jacobs, Chicago SO Principal Tuba (1944 - 1988) 
Dec 6th
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