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How do you get to Carnegie Hall? James Levine slayed the punchline and showed that nothing but iron will gets...

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In 1980 I came across a reprint of a volume of Jacob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-hof in the Joseph Patelson Music House in New York. I was preparing to leave town (and country)...

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When the curtain rises at the end of this month on the three ballets set to the musicof Dmitri Shostakovich, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky for American BalletTheatre,...

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Statement from the Shapero Family regarding the passing of Harold Shapero (1920-2013) Harold Shapero, an American composer, pianist and longtime Professor of Music at Brandeis...

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The end... for a while anyway. As usual (or not), it more or less ends in fire and flood.Metropolitan OperaValkyrie (M), Giulio Cesare (T/F), Siegfried (W), Dialogues (Th/SE),...

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There is a new musical enterprise making its debut on Sunday June 2 (at 5 pm in the Kellogg Music Center, Bard College at Simon's Rock). We call it "The Berkshire Beethoven Piano...

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This looks like it would great fun to play. The inventor says, "As a keyboard player, I love the piano and think it's the most logical instrument. But I was always interested in...

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In the summer of 2011, I published 31 Days to Better Practicing, a free ebook about how to practice. Since the ebook went live, I'm glad to say that it has received over 7600...

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"One of the 20th-century's great symphonists, Lutoslawski created an impressive, always progressing body of music in the most difficult of circumstances. As the commander of a...

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The first feeling is one of anticipation. An incline and series of stairs slants away from you to the south, and you’ve been walking already for ten minutes down Roosevelt...

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