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Poet Amanda Gorman and German cellist Jan Vogler combine poetry and Bach's cello suites at New York's Carnegie Hall to share the "lows and highs" of human experience.
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Classical 101It happens every year – there’s so much to do in preparation for the holidays that by the time the holidays actually roll around, you’re plum tuckered…
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Classical 101Trades run in some families like water from leaky faucets. The most famous family of musical tradesmen is the Bach family, which over the span of two…
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Classical 101You could say Matt Haimovitz does things differently.He abandoned the typical career of a classical cellist early on. Since then, Haimovitz, now on the…
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Classical 101When you think of improvisation in music, you probably think of saxophone lines sailing through the smoke of a jazz club, not cello riffs frilling up a…
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Classical 101Planning on a summer backyard barbecue? Why not grill those burgers and brats to the sounds of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms?Afternoon Host Kent Teeters has…
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Classical 101“I think that he’s kind of like the grandfather of it all.”That’s what pianist Simone Dinnerstein says about Bach, a composer for whose music she has a…
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Classical 101I know, I know. Another seemingly sensationalistic claim tossed out into cyberspace like so much line at the fishing hole. Sure, winning the lottery can…
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Classical 101Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos – take your pick Bach composed six so-called Brandenburg Concertos, concerti grossi in an all-new style and dedicated to the…
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Classical 101Jeannette Sorrell, founder and artistic director of the Cleveland-based period-instrument orchestra Apollo's Fire, is one of the world's foremost…