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Qi Xiaowei wrote a blog entry: everywhere...
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A Huangcheng the Arab East inseparable friends. A East, said: A yellow, come over. A yellow on the wagging tails coming. A East said: A yellow, squat squat. A yellow to squat up. A East has taught A yellow hands. A East, said: A yellow, with a...

Sebastian Scotney wrote a blog entry: Interview: Duncan Bellamy of Portico Quartet
10 hour(s) ago

It's been quite a year for Portico Quartet. In a few weeks the group set off for their first 9-date North American tour (details below). I spoke briefly on the phone to drummer Duncan Bellamy. (photo: Real World Records)In the last few months...

Judlyne Lilly Gibson has published a podcast: STACCATO: the Last Night at the Proms
10 hour(s) ago

Thousands of so called "Prommers" are getting ready for The Last Night At The Proms, a huge event that closes out the three month classical music festival in London known as the BBC Proms. KMFA will be airing The Last Night at the Proms September...

Roger Bourland wrote a blog entry: What comes first?
11 hour(s) ago

People often are amazed at composers. It seems like magic to many, and they often ask about the process. I tell them that we learn and are trained to “hear” things internally — usually they gasp — I remind them that I am...

Frances Wilson wrote a blog entry: Ferenc and Me: Learning to love Liszt
12 hour(s) ago

Last year it was Purcell and Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn. This year it's Chopin, Schumann and Mahler, and next year it will be Liszt (and Mahler " again!). I am talking, of course, of composer anniversaries, celebrations to mark either their birth...

Frances Wilson added a new link "BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music" : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008mj7p
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Tim Rutherford-Johnson wrote a blog entry: A Prom date with Beyonce
15 hour(s) ago

I’ve posted a short write-up of the Turnage/Beyonce story to the Guardian’s Music Blog: It began with a bang: skirling woodwind and dissonant brass fury. Nothing that unusual for a BBC Proms world premiere. But then audience members at...

Corinne Orde wrote a blog entry: Malady in melody
17 hour(s) ago

One of the things that makes French melodie so difficult to sing well is that so much of it deals with what I call passively negative emotions (as distinct from an actively negative emotion such as anger). Many of the poets who inspired the songs...

London Philharmonic Orchestra wrote a blog entry: Mahler anniversary
17 hour(s) ago

Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski was interviewed by Jessica Duchen for an article in the Independent titled “How we learned to start worrying and love Mahler”,in preparation forthis anniversary season celebrating 150 years since...

Classical CD Reviews wrote a blog entry: CPE Bach Organ Works Thomas Trotter
19 hour(s) ago

Prelude in D major Wq70/7 [4:31]Sonata in F major Wq70/3 H84 [12:00]Fantasia and Fugue in C minor Wq119/7 [5:41]Sonata in A minor Wq70/4 H85 [12:37]Fugue on BACH (edited Trotter) [3:02]Sonata in G minor Wq70/6 H87 [14:13]Adagio in D minor Wqnv66...

Sebastian Scotney wrote a blog entry: Exciting Eastbourne
20 hour(s) ago

This local newspaper story about an Eastbourne Council licensing officer cancelling a restaurant gig gives a reminder of the unnecessary and disproportionate powers to ban live music which - until an exemption is in place -councils like still have...

Jon Gorrie wrote a blog entry: Embouchure Rehabilitation and Broken Embouchures
21 hour(s) ago

Lucinda Lewis has been the principal horn of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 1977, and is the author of “Broken Embouchures” and “Embouchure Rehabilitation” Broken Embouchures is a comprehensive guide to the...

MusBook.com posted a new news story: More Woes for Musical Instrument carrying Ryanair Passengers
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Ryanair's musical instrument policy came in for further criticism this week, after it emerged that a twelve-year-old violinist and her father had been prevented from boarding a plane from Germany to the UK after refusing to pay £190 for a...

Peter Tregear created a new event: Deutsche Motetten
1 day(s) ago

This programme will showcase The Consort of Melbourne in its most intimate form, 10 singers, filling the space of the beautiful Lutheran church, St JohnsSouthgate. With works by Schutz and Brahms, the programme offers an enjoyable and enlightening...

Peter Tregear added a new link "Tom Service on the Great Opera Scam " : http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/sep/01/critics-notebook-tom-service
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Peter Tregear added a new link "Is transport for london trying to get rid of buskers?" : http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/aug/31/transport-for-london-buskers
Wayne Myers: Transport for London denies it has banned a busker for using an 'undesirable instrument' on the underground. but there is no doubt that musicians are getting a rough ride on the tube...
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Stephen P Brown wrote a blog entry: "Not Rach 3" Excerpt
1 day(s) ago

[Facebookers: click on 'View Original Post'] Here's an excerpt of my new composition "Not Rach 3" that will be premiered...[This is a summary. Go to blog.stephenpbrown.com for the full post]

Classical CD Reviews wrote a blog entry: Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch Lott Schreier Johnson
1 day(s) ago

Hugo WOLF (1860-1903)Italienisches LeiderbuchFelicity Lott sopranoPeter Schreier tenorGraham Johnson pianoRecorded in St George's Brandon Hill Bristol 11-16 May 1993 and 23-25 January 1994 Stereo DDDHelios CDH55385 [79:40]Buy from:Hyperion have an...

London Philharmonic Orchestra wrote a blog entry: Review: Hansel and Gretel with Robin Ticciati
2 day(s) ago

Conductor Robin Ticciati made his BBC Proms debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Hansel and Gretel – the production brought from Glyndebourne and given a semi-staged performance at the Royal Albert Hall with soloists Alice Coote and...

Jon Gorrie wrote a blog entry: Chicago Symphony Orchestra " Barenboim " Tchaikovsky Symphony #4
2 day(s) ago

A huge thank you to medpiano for posting this performance on youtube. Here is Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a stellar performance of Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony in F minor for the opening concert of Carnegie...

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