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Evenings with Hector Berlioz: Music, Scorn, and Genius
Explore Berlioz’s “Evenings with the Orchestra” at Bard Music Festival Aug 9-18. Satire, music criticism, and more! fishercenter.bard.edu Read more…
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Perceptive, Gorgeous, and Deeply Moving, “Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story”
A beautiful, transformative documentary about a unique human-animal bond that reveals how exquisitely beautiful life is when we open our eyes and hearts. Read more…
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Salonen’s Bad Hair Day: Earthbound, Incoherent, Uninspiring Sibelius
The 5th Symphony’s noble swans fail to take flight at the Kimmel Center. Read more…
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Dreamy Gerontius
Elgar’s masterpiece is performed with heart and spirit by dedicated students and starry soloists at Princeton University Read more…
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Anne Brontë’s “Wildfell Hall”: A Tormented Valentine
The first act reads almost like a Jane Austen novel. The third is pat and precious. But the long central portion, which doesn’t begin until about 150 pages in, is horribly compelling. Read more…
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Time’s Echo: Music as Living History
“Time’s Echo” explores powerful musical memorials by Shostakovich, Britten, Schoenberg and Strauss. Read more…
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Vaughan Williams’ Amanuensis: The Invisible Hand of Roy Douglas
Roy Douglas’ book, “Working with Vaughan Williams” (1988), elaborates on his relationship with the famed English composer, for whom he served as “musical midhusband” with modesty and humility. Read more…
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Samuel Barber Combed for Absorbing New Biography
Howard Pollack does it again, with doorstop biography of one of America’s finest composers. Read more…
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The Long Ships: A Sly and Wry, Rip-Roaring Viking Adventure
Norse logic and laconism have rarely been so amusing. Not for the politically-correct crowd, maybe. But they’re Vikings! Read more…
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Copland and Pollack Share the Gift to Be Simple
The Dean of American Composers is humanized in Howard Pollack’s accessible, absorbing biography. Read more…
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