PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality
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Pianist Hélène Grimaud took a somewhat uncommon approach to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. She decided to play one side against the other. Use...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Bach's music for organ, harpsichord and violin is among the most frequently transcribed and re-adapted music of our time. On pianist Hélène Grimau...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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There are many good causes to believe in - and work for. And these days, there are just as many ways to make your voice heard. Pianist Hélène Gri...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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What are the secrets of Bach and his music's ability to reach a wide variety of musical tastes? He had all the skills, technique and other musical...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Although the practice is as old as music itself, taking a piece of music for one instrument and adapting it to another still causes scowls and glar...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Beethoven's music is not always about the DRAMA. You can hear sweetness and joy, emotion and humor, fire and passion, and in the case of the third...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Beethoven was known to be a micro-manager with his music, at times giving the performer note-by-note instructions on how to play. Well, Beethoven ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Some concertos contain multiple technical and virtuosic challenges. Playing through them all can be an exhausting physical experience, similar to ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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There are a number of ways, all subjective of course, to judge a successful performance of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer". For violini...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Even though online access has brought different parts of the world closer together, there are still distinct continental approaches to playing spec...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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"Who were your influences?" That's one of the questions artists and performers from all fields hate to be asked. It may have to do with how many ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
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Debussy's First Rhapsody for Clarinet began as a contest piece for students at the Paris Conservatory. That explains the presence of the virtuoso ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
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Carl Maria von Weber wrote quite a bit of solo music for the clarinet, and much of it is highly dramatic and virtuosic. Weber tended to think of i...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
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Among the many colors, sounds or inflections a clarinetist can draw from their instrument is a sense of nostalgia. That makes the Autumn Song by T...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
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How does a large family ever manage in a small house?
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
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NEA Jazz Master Snooky Young on his unique name and his start in music.
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
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NEA Jazz Master Snooky Young is still playing, after all these years.
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
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NEA Jazz Master Snooky Young discusses his craft and his solo in "Uptown Blues."
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
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