Tag: beethoven
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July 12, 2008 03:07 PM EDT --
This was published in the Winter issue of the Oakland Journal
On Hearing Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" For The 99 th Time
I do not think I will ever witness perfection in music. . . . more
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March 18, 2007 10:54 PM EDT --
It was a trip, a real one, as I made my way thru the Pearly Gates. As I floated over the puffy cotton of heavenly clouds I noticed a little spot just inside. It had a purple neon sign that read Pearly . . . more
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November 02, 2007 10:11 AM EDT --
Welcome to Friday Writing Essentials ....
Today, Friday the 2nd of November is an open day for featuring . I'll be looking especially to feature a favorite piece of writing on Gather . . . more
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September 13, 2005 05:18 PM EDT --
One of my all-time favorite pieces of music, Beethoven's Kreutzer sonata (Sonata No. 9, op. 47) apparently has a story behind it. I've come across several references to this on the Internet although I've . . . more
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February 09, 2007 05:41 PM EST --
Third attempt:)
Beethoven’s Symphony Number 9
creates images of white Lipizzan horses,
prancing in proper gait.
horse and rider
as one in beauty,
while all the circus . . . more
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March 24, 2006 12:10 PM EST --
Homemade music and me--It's what defines me, I guess. I have an overwhelming passion for seeing that everyone have music of their own making. There isn't a song I don't want to learn. . . . more
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February 01, 2007 01:54 AM EST --
Lipizzan trot,
and carriage rides,
Beethoven’s Symphony number 9,
conformity,
of jangled nerves,
like ice cream,
on a hot summer day.
more
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July 02, 2007 12:07 PM EDT --
A Biographical Timeline
"The world's most successful pianist."
Die Welt am Sonntag (Berlin), November 2006
". . . his playing was so raptly beautiful that one was afraid to breathe . . . more
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April 27, 2006 05:37 PM EDT --
Beethoven's Wig 3 Coming This May
New from the award-winning series!
Beethoven's Wig 3: Many More Sing Along Symphonies
Classical Music Meets Wit and Wordplay, . . . more
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July 02, 2007 11:57 AM EDT --
Lang Lang
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4
Orchestre de Paris / Christoph Eschenbach
Lang Lang records his first Beethoven album
"The hottest artist on the classical . . . more
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December 22, 2006 01:21 AM EST --
This is a melodrama, exagerates and is not a great story. Skip the movie unless you can see it somewhere with excellent sound. just buy the sound track ...that is worth the money.
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April 21, 2006 08:32 PM EDT --
I found some old photo collages I put together from a show I did during my theatre days at Emerson College. The piece was called "Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean . . . more
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November 03, 2007 10:59 PM EDT --
As I listen to
Beethoven’s’ “Moonlight” Piano Sonata: I. Adagio sostenuto
I see…
My mother is at the center
of a field of well aged Nogales.
Autumn leaves . . . more
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October 24, 2007 11:59 AM EDT --
Join the Longwood Symphony Orchestra , Kokugikan Sumida Choral Society, Chorus Boston and New World Chorale under guest Japanese conductor Shunji Aratani in a special international collaboration . . . more
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January 15, 2007 08:40 AM EST --
The other day while I was reading for this literary agency I work fo a woman came in. She was a writer or a journalist, I can't remember which, nor do I have her name, I didn't really care . . . more
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February 05, 2007 03:36 PM EST --
Thoughts on the Film Copying Beethoven
Cathy Fuller
For musicians, there is a realm of music where the highest inspiration and the greatest terror live together. It's a place where sheer reverence . . . more
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November 15, 2005 02:01 PM EST --
Monday, November 14, 2005
Two amateur musicians with an affinity for Beethoven started painstakingly converting unrecorded works into digital MIDI files. The project began merely as a way for the two . . . more
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December 25, 2006 10:29 AM EST --
I was thrilled several months ago when I found that the closing of a conference I would be attending would be given by Benjamin Zander.
Benjamin is conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra . . . more
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February 12, 2006 03:27 PM EST --
This extreme Muslim versus the West thing is really tricky. It strains my mind to try to be objective but it seems to defy all my attempts to do so. But it is a relentless issue. It has to be dealt . . . more
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December 16, 2000 12:00 AM EST --
Live from The Town Hall on West 43rd Street in New York City, A Prairie Home Companion welcomes Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, and a special tribute to Beethoven's birthday with classical pianist, . . . more
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