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Magnus Lindburg discusses being a composer in residence for the New York Philharmonic. Somehow he portrays just how intense he is as a character, don't you just love it!?

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An interesting animation of Glenn Gould as seen in the wonderful animated movie The Triplets of Belleville

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The one and only cigarette lighting machine owned by none other than Maestro Lenny Bernstein. 5 stars for the Candide's Glitter and be Gay.

Have a great day everyone

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Will one of the nation's greatest violinists be noticed in a D.C. Metro stop during rush hour? Joshua Bell experimented for Gene Weingarten's story in The Washington Post:

http://wpo.st/-vP

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Funerary bust of a woman, from Palmyra, Syria. 3rd-century CE.

Cool that this is from the third century Palmyra, a.k.a. when the city-state was at the height of its power both as an ally and adversary of Rome. First Odaenathus is holding shit down for the emperor Gallienus in the East against the Sassanids, but then after his death Queen Zenobia flips the script and is all like, “You want your eastern provinces back, you’ll have to take them back.” Cleopatra retains an elevated historical status through her association with Caesar and Antony, but she pales to Zenobia in individual dynamism and willfulness.

I’m also loving the fact that despite being a Palmyrian bust, it in many ways resembles  early Christian sculpture styles that emerged from Rome in the next century. This comparison completely alters my perception of that early Christian aesthetic. Maybe the style wasn’t derived from Christianity, but simply was where the Roman perception of the form was headed (devoid of any Christian influence). Palmyra was cool because it sat astride two civilizations. If Rome was a lion and Sassanid Persia was a tiger, Palmyra was a liger — a hybrid. And hybrid cultures are awesome. The Bactrian Greeks? THE BEST

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I'll buy a beer for anyone who an find the sheet music or score for this!

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Prof. Daniel Levitin discusses research of how music affects the brain. Many musicologists might disagree with this but it seems there are facts, granted the man is in a greater position to comment on our brains.

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Vladimir Jurowski discusses Don Giovanni, Shakespeare and his finding his way as a conductor in his father's shadow. 

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Welsh soprano Dame Margaret Price dies, aged 69.

Rest in Peace.

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The evolving art of photography in recent years.

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This year the Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is the guest of honnor of the 20th edition of Radio-France’s annual contemporary music festival: Présences.

It kicks off on Wednesday 3 February with a concert at the Finnish Institute in Paris and will last until 19 February. Most concerts - 13 in total - will take place at the Théâtre du Châtelet. The resident orchestra is the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France.

Full programme available here.

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Denis Dutton projects a Darwinian theory of aesthetics. Not what we learn in music conservatories but interesting none the less.

Love the comic sketch too!

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Mitsuko Uchido on Beethoven, differences between German and Austrian interpretation and why she's a Londoner.

Enjoy

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