When Histrionics Undermine the Music and the Pianist
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Another reason classical music is not reaching more young people: not because of how it sounds, but because of how it looks.
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While director Calixto Bieito is right to update Mozart's "Don Giovanni," the problem is that he does it badly, with a limited repertory of (mostly sexual) gestures.
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Choosing a theme song for a political campaign may sound fun but can produce plenty of sour notes.
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LET'S be pretentious for a moment, hmm? What is the truer art: painting or music? Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the oils or the ivories?.
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A piece of software used by Apple's iTunes has accidentally sparked a scandal in the classical music world -- and cast a shadow on the reputation of an obscure, deceased British pianist now accused of plagiarism.
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Instead of playing yet another respectful âMessiahâ by Handel, the Philharmonic should try to recreate one of the sumptuously padded later versions by Mozart, Michael Costa or Thomas Beecham.
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Lord Lloyd-Webber hits back at critics who have called a TV talent search to find his latest musical lead a con.
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Can one orchestraâs audacious experiment save classical music?
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In a recent column, critic Edward Reichel complained about what he feels is the Utah Symphony's too frequent scheduling of standard classics -- the offending composition here being Tchaikovsky's celebrated Violin Concerto. Mr.
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You know that annoying tune that you can't place or get out of your head?
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Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer's physician did &#151; inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.
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Three new albums prompt the question: How do we explain playing something (a lot) that we donât even like that much?
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Comment is free: Decca Aitkenhead: The connection between overpaid artists and bad albums is undeniable. Record labels are failing to turn money into music
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When the violinist Midori and the pianist Marc-AndrÃ© Hamelin performed Ravelâs Sonata for Violin and Piano at the Rose Theater, notes and phrases were as carefully placed as stones in a Japanese garden.
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Robert Blake stands accused of murder--and of giving a bad   performance.
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The old and the new go head to head in the music of Charles Ives, but conflict may not be the right word to describe it.
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Some computers can beat grandmasters at chess. Others can compose music.