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Even during a pandemic, Helga Davis' energy and enthusiasm cannot be contained. In the latest installment of Amplify With Lara Downes, @laradownes talks to her longtime friend, the fiercely and fearlessly creative multidisciplinary artist. trib.al/Tm4XWXn
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#Today in 1920 FP of #Holst's The Planets. Albert Coates conducting at Queen's Hall, London. #MusicHistory #classicalmusic
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Today's the day to challenge your 👂👂! Listen the the Piano Puzzler to see if you can guess the hidden tune:
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At age 27, Franz Schubert was facing his own mortality. He took a song he wrote 7 years earlier and wrote a set of variations for string quartet. On today's show, hear @ArielQuartet play Schubert's String Quartet known as the Death and the Maiden.
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No matter how hectic Election Day might be, here's a video playlist to provide a much needed moment of tranquility. livesessions.npr.org/playlis…
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⚠️ UPDATE: Power has been fully restored to campus. We will announce info on Monday’s operations & classes tomorrow.
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Harry Burleigh was the first black composer to help develop a characteristically American style of music. On today's show, violinist Samuel Nebyu and pianist Bethany Brooks play a piece Burleigh wrote in 1916: Four Southland Sketches.
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🚶♀️ Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid has written new music for a GPS-enabled app specifically designed to score walks around Central Park. trib.al/kOpWqeq
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Happy birthday, Georges Bizet! As we celebrate his birthday, let's listen to @YujaWang's recording of Variations on a Theme from Bizet's "Carmen": DG.lnk.to/YujaCarmen
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Gramophone Collection: Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. Geraint Lewis traces the fascinating history on record of Britten’s early masterpiece and chooses his ‘must-have’ available version: gramophone.co.uk/features/ar…
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Do you know any couples who are always arguing and disagreeing, but who truly love each other? On today's show, hear music inspired by a similar couple. Pianist Andre Watts and the @nashvillesymph perform Edward MacDowell's Piano Concerto #2.
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We are sad to share that all concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall through June 9, 2021, have been canceled to help limit the spread of COVID-19. Please see laphil.com/covid19 for more information.
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Episode 1 of my new @nprmusic show ‘Amplify with @laradownes’: a kitchen-table convo w @RhiannonGiddens about our excavations into the deep heart of American music.👊🏽🎶
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It is with great disappointment to announce that we will not be performing live concerts in Symphony Hall through April as a result of COVID-19-related restrictions.
But new online content is on the way! Learn more: ow.ly/B38Z50BUwXo
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When you look at a painting more than once, you often find new elements you didn't see before. It's the same with music. On today's show, hear an intimate setting of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
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In compliance with New York State health regulations and on the advice of health officials, we regret that all previously scheduled concerts are cancelled through June 13, 2021 due to COVID-19.
Read more: nyphil.org/2021message
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In our last Young Artist Series, we introduced you to Jordan Bak, an incredibly talented violist with a bright personality... and he continues to bloom. On today's show, hear Bak's performance in the final round at the 2020 @SphinxOrg Competition.
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.@nytimes calls EP 3 of SOUND/STAGE one of the 10 classical concerts to stream this month. See the LA Phil & @GustavoDudamel perform music by Jessie Montgomery & William Grant Still, plus performances by @AndraDayMusic, @jnaibmezzo, @lascafeteras & more.
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Playing Liszt is like entering a state of ecstasy. His Piano Sonata in B Minor deals with life, love and death, with Mephistopheles and Faust. My new album, “The Wanderer” is out today! Watch a new music video here: youtu.be/i7I-ErQfHjE
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There's an 1889 photo of the Paris World Expo: Four young Javanese dancers, and one young woman is staring rather sternly into the camera. Her name is Soekia. On today's show, hear @DolceSuonoE perform Soekia's Dance by Thomas Whitman.
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