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Salt Lake school is changing lives through music
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 1 month ago
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The row of brick storefronts on Salt Lake City's 2nd South appear ordinary, hardly worth mention or notice, but on Saturday mornings, one of them doesn't sound ordinary. Strains of classical music played by a string orchestra a good one waft into the
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Dorothy Taubman, 95, Dies; Helped Pianists Avoid Injuries
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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Dorothy Taubman Institute Dorothy Taubman The cause was pneumonia, her son, Mark, said. Musicians, often called elite athletes of the small muscles , suffer repetitive strain injuries from long hours of practice and hectic performing schedules. Like
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Leon and Katherine Fleisher impress at PianoTexas
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 12 months ago
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No matter how many hands were on the keyboard, the result was the same. Pianist Leon Fleisher and his wife, Katherine Jacobson Fleisher, offered a performance at PepsiCo Recital Hall on Thursday night that included pieces played with two hands, four
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Best bets for Thursday, June 28
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 12 months ago
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Monk fishing Jazz great Thelonius Monk's music is celebrated at 9 p.m...King Leon The distinguished piano series at PianoTexas International Academy and Festival closes Thursday night with the great Leon Fleisher and his wife, Katherine Jacobson
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Critic's Notebook: Dystonia, Which Struck Glenn Gould and Other Musicians
Dresden :: Germany | over 1 year ago
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Just because you're a hypochondriac, to paraphrase Joseph Heller's wry comment on paranoia, doesn't mean you aren't sick. And the brilliant Canadian pianist Glenn Gould was, in a phrase uttered at a medical conference over the weekend, a world-class
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Jonathan Biss, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Brno :: Czech Republic | over 1 year ago
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Gilles Peterson is to world music what Mr. Kipling is to cakes...Suggested Topics The American pianist Jonathan Biss prefaced his Southbank appearance with the release of a Kindle ebook called Beethoven's Shadow', in which he discusses the challenge
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Marking some of 2011's milestones in Nashville jazz and classical
Nashville :: TN :: USA | over 1 year ago
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As for country, watch for our 12th annual Country Music Critics Poll, coming Jan. 19. But wait, you say, with well-founded indignation: What about jazz and classical, which both offered momentous occasions in Music City in 2011? Cue up the needle on
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Piero Weiss, 83, Pianist and Musicologist, Dies at 83
Trieste :: Italy | over 1 year ago
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Piero Weiss, a former concert pianist and recording artist who turned to musicology, becoming an author and co-author of books in the field, including a widely used textbook, and founding the music history department at the Peabody Conservatory, died
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Final all-Beethoven concert brings PianoTexas festival to majestic conclusion
Moscow :: Russia | almost 2 years ago
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The previous Tuesday had spotlighted the artistry of three gifted teen-agers; this Tuesday it was the turn of the 20-somethings...Perhaps they were inspired by the imposing presence of Leon Fleisher, who guest-conducted the Fort Worth Symphony
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Fourth classical award for Dillon
Rome :: Italy | 2 years ago
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Composer Dillon wins fourth Royal Philharmonic award James Dillon won his first RPS award in 1997 for Traumwerk Book 1. Composer James Dillon has notched up the most wins in the history of the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Music Awards after
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