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With Mr. Levine conducting, often energetically, from his accustomed high stool, the Met Chamber Ensemble played four short but densely concentrated works by Pierre Boulez on the first half and devoted the second half to a youthful Mozart divertimento.
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The sounds of Mozart might help slow premature infants' metabolism, potentially helping them to put on needed weight, a study published Monday suggests. Most research into the so-called "Mozart effect" has focused on whether listening to the composer...
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For performing a routine colorectal surgery, Dr. Claudius Conrad prefers the music of Bach, whose fugues and preludes mirror the methodical, structured steps of the procedure...A 2006 survey of 171 doctors and nurses at three hospitals found that the...
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Steamboat Springs Under the baton of music director Ernest Richardson, the Steamboat Springs Orchestra has become a community experience in music making. Taking on a new challenge in the classical music repertoire with each performance, the group and...
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The weighty refinement ofmodern instruments andthe incisive articulation ofhistorical performancepractice combine tothrilling effect in DouglasBoyd's live recording ofBeethoven's 1st and 3rdsymphonies withManchester Camerata.Perceptively detailed, No...
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They've parsed his choral writing and looked to compositional practices of the time. But not one has matched the sheer eruption of genius of the score, and perhaps that's because they went about it the wrong way: trying to finish the work with notes.
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The Lucerne Piano Festival attracts an influx of pianophiles every November to the town's state-of-the-art lakeside hall. It has just been welcoming some of the piano world's greatest artists including Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini and a host of young...
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra music director Manfred Honeck incorporates both views to bring out the glories of Mozart's final composition in his production, "Requiem -- Mozart and Death in Music and Words." The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem...
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I never knew HC Robbins Landon, who has died at the age of 83 . But like thousands of others around the world, he was the only classical music scholar I had ever heard of when I was growing up, thanks to the major books on Mozart he published with Thames...
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A wax likeness of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven stands in Berlin's Madame Tussaud's wax museum. (Clemens Bilan/AFP/Getty Images) Despite his early successes and the patronage of wealthy and influential people in Austrian society, Beethoven’s life...
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