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| Bach, J. S. |
And now, a word
from our friend, Mr. Bach:
Some friendly, or
perhaps not-so-friendly advice about
organ playing.
And now,
another word from our friend, Mr.
Bach: It can't
possibly all come down to hard work!
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van |
Looks Aren't
Everything, Unless you are a Legend
-- what did
Beethoven really look like?
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| Brahms, Johannes |
It's Only the Truth
If You Can Yell the Loudest
Brahms
writes a letter to the editor
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| Buxtehude, Dietrich |
What a long,
strange trip it must have been:
Bach travels 250 miles to hear
Buxtehude
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Chopin, Frederic
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Chopin at an
impasse decisions,
decisions....
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| Gottschalk, Louis Moreau |
Not Your Average
Concert Tour:
Louis Moreau Gottschalk tours the
United States during the Civil War
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| Joplin, Scott |
Respecting Mr. Joplin
Joplin's battle to bring dignity to
his person and his art
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| Mendelssohn, Felix |
Thank you, Mr.
Freud Even
great composers are human beings.
Which, alas, makes them pretty
irrational. So much so that many of
them didn't wait around for the advent
of psychoanalysis to be born, write
great works, throw themselves into
rivers, and die. What would Freud have
to say about all this? You'll have to
ask him. This essay's only concern is
the relatively tame case of Felix
Mendelssohn.
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| Moszkowski, Moritz |
The Sunshine Composer
Answers his Critics
Was he just too nice to produce great
art?
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| Mozart, W. A. |
Not bad, for a
five-year old:
Mozart's first compositions
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| Mussorgsky, Modeste |
With Friends Like
These...
pals dish a little gossip about
Modeste Mussorgsky
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Praetorius: Michael,
Hieronymus and Jacob |
'The Three Mayors': Michael,
Hieronymus, and Jacob Praetorius in
the digital age
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| Satie, Erik |
Erik Satie, the
Individual
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| Scarlatti, Domenico |
The Solace of Noble
Minds: The Strange
Employment of Domenico Scarlatti
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| Schubert, Franz |
Back to School with
Franz Schubert
Schubert chooses the last week of his
short life to start taking
counterpoint lessons
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Schumann, Robert
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Who wants to
be a genius? Shall
we gather at the river? |
| Tchaikovsky, Pyotor I. |
All I want for
Christmas is to have my mentor and
roommate completely trash my piano
concerto
A heartwarming anecdote regarding one
of the most popular pieces in the
repertoire
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| various composers |
He was Born
it's so much more interesting when you
connect the dots |
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How
they died the eerie deaths
of several composers |
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Take this
Job and...
great composers and their employers |
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articles about
instruments and the people who play them
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a little speculation on the
graphic representation of sounds...
Looks Like it
Sounds--or, those bizarre squiggles
we call music.
Why do
we write music the way we do and is it
actually the best method? Dare we ask?
Part One
(the staff that ate
Chicago...)
Part Two (mock some sages,
clefs for me)
Part Three (it's about time)
Part
Four
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Before
the blog arrived in 2012 there was a monthly
web column on matters musical. Here they
are... (2009-2011)
5-Second
Rule have browser, will--
Rhetoric
on music's persuasive power
Resolution
mediocrities, I absolve you!
Marking
Time Cage and Gould
Music Appreciation
try it, you'll appreciate it.
What I Did this Summer
Europe, and the toccata
Finding
my Footing on
the organ pedals, that is.
The
Big 1-0 one big OLD website
This is your brain on
Microsoft Stages of practice
Of
All the Nerves... a guide
to the kinds of nerves musicians face on stage
A Brief
Survey of "mom and pop" organists on the
Internet
Music of the Future Did a
robot write this post for me? hmmm
You Better not Cry
complaining about Christmas
Mix
Tape what is the point of all
this recording?
Bring on the Noise! at
last, a decent way to post audio
Thoughts upon a Toccata You're
not gonna like this.
Birthday
Party I know, everybody does it
like that...
Canonically Speaking what's
in and what's out
Billions and Billions of
Arpeggios Sold
mass production for the masses
A Night at the (concept)
opera electric sheep,
anyone?
Apparently
Diamond-Studded Pianos aren't Forever
but then, what is?
Your
Lucky Day! first you have to
create a password
Does Music Make you Rude?
Should it?
Do you have somewhere to Be? tempo
boosto
Hit
Parade who's ever heard of
Beethoven's 4th?
Thoughts During a Concert think
of them like interior program notes in real
time
Do Not Disturb
introducing my composer's hut
Skills I Have Acquired
Recently you won't believe number 4
They Laughed When I Started
to Play... Which
is just the way it should be
Bless the recording stars
and the children
(somebody sign that grasshopper to a recording
contract!)
Civil War (you
are an idiot. I mean that in the nicest way
possible.)
Dialogue
with a Steinway (a
recording session with a cantankerous
instrument)
I'd
Like to Thank the Academy (nobody
does it alone)
Precedent (the
last bad performance?)
An Exercise in Creative
Ignorance (or why
trying to sight-read your throw pillow
probably won't work)
Mailbag
(questions I've gotten from readers)
That reminds me of
something
(thoughts about quoting popular tunes in
classical music)
Beethoven
on Facebook (a romp
through a parallel universe)
My
Apologies (stress
and predictability in music)
What's
with all the Italian? (Why so
much about classical music seems to be in a
foreign language)
The rest
is silence (how
silence is important to music--and sanity!)
Know
your limits (how
Chopin's strengths and weaknesses helped him
forge a unique musical career)
The 'F' Word (thoughts on Musical Form)
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