Music Interviews Anne-Sophie Mutter's Immortal Mendelssohn January 30, 2009 For her new recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Mutter traveled to the composer's old stomping ground in Leipzig, Germany, to the site where the concerto had its premiere in 1845. Anne-Sophie Mutter's Immortal Mendelssohn Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/100015851/100084132" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Music News Composer, Teacher George Perle Dies At 93 January 26, 2009 The American composer, who died Friday, embraced the early-20th-century style called 12-tone music. But he also developed his own personal spin on the methodology, giving his own music a palpable wit and lyrical punch. Hear A Feature On Perle For His 70th Birthday (1985) Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/99880684/99878452" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Holiday Music Trio Mediaeval's Norwegian Christmas December 18, 2008 The Oslo-based trio of vocalists introduces a Norwegian Christmas tune, as well as a few traditions from their homeland, in NPR's Studio 4A. The group's latest recording has just been nominated for a Grammy Award. Trio Mediaeval's Norwegian Christmas Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/98406314/98435479" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Review Song Of The Day Messiaen At 100: A Song For The Solar System December 10, 2008 French composer Olivier Messiaen, who would have turned 100 Wednesday, was something of a musical misfit. His ideas about melody, harmony and rhythm seemed to fall to earth out of nowhere, fitting into no particular school of thought. And yet he changed the way people thought about music as it exists in the infinity that was, for him, his God and the universe. Des canyons aux étoiles..., for piano, horn, xylorimba, glockenspiel & orchestra, I/51 Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/98077930/98000110" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Music News Australian Brett Dean Wins Grawemeyer Award December 1, 2008 The Lost Art of Letter Writing, a violin concerto by Australian Brett Dean, has won the Grawemeyer Award, the world's richest composition prize. Dean's piece is based on letters written by Brahms, Van Gogh and Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
Music Interviews Chicago Symphony Tops U.S. Orchestras November 21, 2008 The city of Chicago has one more thing to boast about: Its hometown orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, has been named America's top orchestra in a new critics' poll published in the venerable British magazine Gramophone. Chicago Symphony Tops U.S. Orchestras Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/97291390/97296010" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Tan Kian Khoon/iStockphoto Listen While You Work Easy Listening For Uneasy Listeners October 30, 2008 Work is nothing more than eight hours of stress, with a lunch break in the middle. You find it's getting easier than ever to fly off the handle, even when the cause is as benign as a lack of hazelnut creamer in the coffee line. Don't reach for the Alka-Seltzer or Prozac. Instead, these five tunes will ease your toughest day on the job just fine.
Concerts Paul Newman's 'Lincoln Portrait' At Carnegie Hall September 29, 2008 Along with his acting career, Paul Newman made a name for himself as a philanthropist and humanitarian, traits that made him an appropriate choice to narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, in a performance at Carnegie Hall with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Aaron Copland: "Lincoln Portrait" Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/95167311/95163818" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Music News Music Abounds In 2008 MacArthur Grants September 23, 2008 In the latest round of what are often called "Genius" grants, the MacArthur Foundation has just named 25 new fellows (each receiving a $500,000 award), including violinist Leila Josefowicz, writer Alex Ross, saxophonist Miguel Zenon, and sound artist and instrument inventor Walter Kitundu.
Review Song Of The Day Ferron: A Road Song Repaved September 19, 2008 Ferron's new album Boulder, her 14th release in 30 years, offers a stripped-down reworking of 10 songs, including the autobiographical "Girl on a Road." As always, she showcases her fears, philosophies, desires, and hopes with the frankness of a close friend and the insight of a therapist. Girl on a Road Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91959187/91917511" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Music Interviews Pressler Bids Adieu To Beaux Arts Trio August 21, 2008 The Beaux Arts Trio, with founder Menahem Pressler, will play its final U.S. concert at the Tanglewood Music Festival on Thursday night, 53 years after the group got its start there. The farewell performance will stream live at NPR.org. Pressler Bids Adieu To Beaux Arts Trio Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/93734452/93815770" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Classics in Concert Beaux Arts Trio Bids Farewell At Tanglewood American Public Media August 19, 2008 Led by founding member Menahem Pressler, the Beaux Arts Trio performs an emotion-laden final U.S. concert at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts, the venue where the ensemble got its start 53 years ago. Beaux Arts Trio Bids Farewell At Tanglewood Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/93589600/93981729" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Thomas Quasthoff. Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the artist Music Interviews Thomas Quasthoff: A Mighty 'Voice' Soars August 12, 2008 "No one expects such a mighty voice to issue from my diminutive frame," the 4-foot-3 singer writes in his new memoir. Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/93513173/93536011" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Classics in Concert Mostly Mozart Festival in Concert WNYC Radio July 29, 2008 Born nearly 100 years apart, Mozart and Mahler shared a knack for writing transcendent music under stress. Live from the Mostly Mozart Festival, hear Mozart's 40th Symphony, filled with pride and pain, and Mahler's ode to eternity, The Song of the Earth. Mostly Mozart Festival in Concert Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/92998657/93337693" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Classics in Concert Robert Schumann Reconsidered at Carnegie Hall WNYC Radio June 17, 2008 Schumann's Piano Concerto was the result of a major rewrite. Paul Chihara did a little reworking of his own on Schumann's Overture, Scherzo and Finale. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays both remodeled pieces at Carnegie Hall. Overture, Scherzo, Finale; Piano Concerto Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91584028/91558443" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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