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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
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Monday, December 16, 2013
'Pain without end!'
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After attending a performance of “Siegfried” in 1989, I decided that this third chapter in Wagner’s “Ring” cycle was the most unendurable op...
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Castleton Festival 2014
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The 2014 Castleton Festival, staged by conductor Lorin Maazel and his wife, Dietlinde Turban Maazel, at their home in Rappahannock County, w...
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Which figure is harder to believe?
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The parent entity of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestral Association, which locked out the orchestra’s musicians in October 20...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Petersburg Symphony in money crisis
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The Petersburg Symphony has dipped into an emergency reserve fund to continue operations. Its budget has plunged since the Internal Revenue ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Music studies
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* Researchers Adrian Hille and Jürgen Schupp, of the German Institute for Economic Research, find that “adolescents with music training have...
A season for classics, in self-defense
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Slate’s Chris Klimek reports, alarmingly, that the Robertson clan of “Duck Dynasty” has put out a Christmas album, and otherwise bemoans the...
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