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arts education continues to suffer in oregon

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Back to school

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

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TQOD

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What is counterpoint?

Stéphane Delplace gives a wonderfully clear answer: This is also a great way to film a piano. Via Roger Evans. 1 day ago From Alex Ross

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Gaudeamus Music Week 2010: Reporting Live

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Nathan Gunn

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FBQD

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Antonín Dvořák 2010

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On his blog, New York music critic Alex Ross has posted a video of French pianist-composer Stéphane Delplace playing a fugue... About 1 hour ago From Sound Mind

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Badenheim 1939 moves to the stage

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Tuning in fifths versus extensions

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Rites of Passage

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Another artist takes a walk

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Catastrophic Tunnel Vision

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Beethoven Moments

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Lyric Opera House to get new name after Modell donation

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Partita for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano (1935). David Diamond /in the pages of m...

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The DecSimp Fall Preview Issue

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Music During Wartime

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Perspective

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Historic Carmens Habanera 1905

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The Graphic Fan

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For Your Listening Pleasure

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Enjoy!

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Learning to Listen

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Ward: Planet Narnia

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Saying “No”

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A Good Understanding

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Labor Day

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I Drink the Air Before Me

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Another way to Brno

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Another post from the Sistine Chapel

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Good from the Vatican

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Made-in-Toronto Cecilia String Quartet wins first prize at Banff Internationa...

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Teaching music technology to education students at DePaul

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Yep, It’s PINK!

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The Futurist

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"Large capable hands"

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awork listening log :: fake plastic robots

Cover of The Day the Earth Stood Still a Fake Plastic Trees. Radiohead b Tango. T... 1 day ago From aworks

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busy week

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The next time I post...

...the baby will be born. We're going to the hospital in the morning to induce labor. I hope the little guy behaves himsel... 1 day ago From Terminal Degree

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MQOD

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Good Study Habits?

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A Moment of Zen

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Outdoor Music, Part 2

By Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum How can we make compelling visual choices that, when faced with curating live elements, direct the a... 1 day ago From NewMusicBox

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BBCMusicMag Whatever they are protesting for/against, we wish they'd pipe down a tad. Trying to listen to some nice Ravel. [RT]

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BBCMusicMag Seems that Tony Blair isn't really in Bristol. The protests are in support of a character called 'Tony Bliar' who is doing a fake signing. [RT]

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BBCMusicMag Ah. It's against Tony Blair, apparently. He's in Bristol to sign his book. [RT]

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BBCMusicMag We can hear protestors marching near the BBC Music office. Not sure what they're protesting against, though… [RT]

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BBCPhilharmonic We're very excitied about working John Barromwan @Team_Barrowman who will be singing at our Prom in the Park on 11th ow.ly/2B3g5 [RT]

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BBCPhilharmonic We have also been preparing for our Prom in the Park, Last night of the Proms this Sat at Buile Hill Park Salford: ow.ly/2B39D [RT]

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BBCPhilharmonic The orchestra,with Gianandrea Noseda,is currently rehearsing Schumann, Schubert and Mozart for the #prom on Thursday 9th: ow.ly/2B2Tc [RT]

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GramophoneMag The Gramophone Player is live! Explore the preview version - listen to Editor's Choice excerpts and our Awards podcast bit.ly/919fTq [RT]

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londonsymphony Today we're playing for UK Day at the UK Pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai. Amazing building. bit.ly/d2wfBb [RT]

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FestSpectrum Desmarets : Grands Motets Lorrains - William Christie bit.ly/b6fKNT #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

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RSNO Sensational performances on @bbcradio3 by Katherine Bryan and Scott Mitchell yesterday! From 0:09.27 bbc.in/ddqoJW [RT]

about 2 hours ago
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RSNO One last look back before the v. long walk through Hyde Park to Kings Cross yesterday. Thanks RAH! yfrog.com/myfsqaj [RT]

about 3 hours ago
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FestSpectrum Impromptus et Rondeaux - Frédérique Chopin bit.ly/9tdDTo #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

about 5 hours ago
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NZSO Who can bang a drum the loudest? This Sat, Auckland Town Hall 2pm: Free Percussion recital by Colin Currie especially for kids & families! [RT]

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ClassicalRev Sunday 5pm check out Classical Revolution Cleveland at Prosperity Social Club in Tremont. FREE live chamber music... fb.me/Hr6PFA8z [RT]

about 6 hours ago
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FestSpectrum "Capturing the Beauty Within" bit.ly/cpmKeC #arts [RT]

about 8 hours ago
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FestSpectrum Gaudeamus Music Week 2010: Reporting Live bit.ly/afUdyX #newmusic [RT]

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FestSpectrum Outdoor Music, Part 2 bit.ly/9Z3o7U #newmusic [RT]

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FestSpectrum Experience vs. Objects bit.ly/9yXgqM #newmusic [RT]

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FestSpectrum Sounds Heard: One Ring Zero—Planets bit.ly/aCB8Ae #newmusic [RT]

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BerlinPhil On this day in 1957: Rudolf Kempe made his @BerlinPhil debut. Learn more: bit.ly/91zWYz [RT]

about 10 hours ago
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FestSpectrum Méhul : Stratonice - William Christie bit.ly/bbRvwV #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

about 11 hours ago
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SFSymphony Hello, 2010-11 - welcome to Opening Gala w/ Jessye Norman, MTT & the SF Symphony! Let's get this party started! yfrog.com/6z4tmaj [RT]

about 12 hours ago
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FestSpectrum Mozart : Die Zauberflöte - William Christie bit.ly/8Y1eXU #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

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FestSpectrum Why The Priest Fainted: An Ode To Eggplant n.pr/b0TIjL [RT]

about 14 hours ago
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PhoenixSymphony Come to "Also sprach Zarathustra" Friday, September 17 at 7:30 pm until
Sunday, September 19 at 8:00 pm.... fb.me/Hmqh3y9C [RT]

about 15 hours ago
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BerlinPhil Im Rahmen des Musikfests Berlin gibt es heute in der Gethsemanekirche ein Konzert mit Musik des 14. Jahrhunderts bit.ly/a5AO2r [RT]

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nytimesmusic Few Words and a Whole Lotta Pictures nyti.ms/aefWWi [RT]

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nytimesmusic Music Review: An Outkast Out There by Himself nyti.ms/9wS90A [RT]

about 16 hours ago
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FestSpectrum Classical Love - Music for a Sunday Vol 24 - Moscow Ancient Music Ensemble bit.ly/cMTUt6 #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

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spokanesymphony We celebrated the end of summer and the beginning of an exciting new season Saturday night in Liberty Lake with... fb.me/zcvdZOIE [RT]

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BostonSymphony I posted 15 photos on Facebook in the album "Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2010" fb.me/Ghw8dutA [RT]

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CO_Symphony Ben Folds Teams with Author Nick Hornby for New Album - You can catch Ben Folds with the Colorado Symphony on... fb.me/GRUckvJf [RT]

about 17 hours ago
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PhoenixSymphony Check out The Arizona Republic's preview article for this weekend's THE MUSIC MAN! fb.me/uiIjEHV9 [RT]

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CincySymphony If you watched the WEBN fireworks this past weekend then you heard the Cincinnati Pops recording of Dukas' La Péri... fb.me/GNWvpU7A [RT]

about 18 hours ago
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UMusicClassical The San Francisco Chronicle - Vladimir Ashkenazy CD Review bit.ly/bOHNPD [RT]

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PhilaOrchestra Read this interview with Norman Carol, concertmaster of @PhilaOrchestra from 1966 to 1994: bit.ly/aSh2B3 [RT]

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ClassicalRev Come listen to the Delphi Trio tonight at Caffe Divino in Sausalito. 730pm. FREE fb.me/EutkYvuP [RT]

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ClassicalRev Dvorak bday bash tmrw night at SoCha Cafe SF. FREE live chamber music! fb.me/J0BO4Q8O [RT]

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ClassicalRev Happy bday Dvorak! Come celebrate 8pm tonight at SoCha Cafe SF. FREE live chamber music fb.me/zfqJlFnq [RT]

about 19 hours ago
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spokanesymphony Your Life to Music - season tix from 3 concerts for $27 to 10 for $155. Call 509-624-1200 to get a package just for you. [RT]

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FestSpectrum Classical Love - Music for a Sunday Vol 42 - The Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra bit.ly/bo9lsI #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

about 20 hours ago
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VASymphony Only 3 more days until our first Classics concert of the season! [RT]

about 21 hours ago
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nytimesmusic Kennedy Center Names Honorees nyti.ms/bOejZa [RT]

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UMusicClassical Don't Miss Out! Get BEST OF LANG LANG for only $5 on AMAZON! amzn.to/cr6T9R [RT]

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HouSymphony Soft-rock crooner Michael Bolton joins the Houston Symphony tomorrow for a one-night-only special! Tickets start at $42: ow.ly/2Azr0 [RT]

about 22 hours ago
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memphissymphony - don't miss Mei-Ann Chen conducting her first concert as new Music Director THIS Friday night - "Russian... fb.me/Ay4IAj4I [RT]

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UMusicClassical Washington Post CD Review of Ashkenazy's Bach bit.ly/cIwwpL [RT]

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DallasSymphony Of Life, Love and Luxury Gala Raffle-1:4 chances to win luxury items from Ritz & Montblanc- $50/ticket or 3/$100 tinyurl.com/2ehsblh [RT]

about 23 hours ago
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VASymphony A video clip of Chee-Yun - who will be performing the Glazunov Violin Concerto with us this weekend. Enjoy! fb.me/G1nva8LI [RT]

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BerlinPhil Heute im Kammermusiksaal: klassische Moderne und neueste Musik mit dem Ensemble Modern, geleitet von Beat Furrer bit.ly/d4udCk [RT]

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bosphil Dana Oakes, trumpet for BPO told us his favorite piece to play is Mahler 7. Read more in our concert program book this season! [RT]

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CincySymphony Come to "The CSO presents The Homecoming of Kathleen Battle and Starlight Affair " Saturday, October 2 from 8:00... fb.me/GgqnA7Si [RT]

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GramophoneMag New Specialist Classical chart now online - and new entries for Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Marc-André Hamelin bit.ly/bYRQJ3 [RT]

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fairfaxsymphony $10 Tickets for the FSO's Opening Concert (this Sat., Sept. 11)! TODAY ONLY! Click here: tiny.cc/kqjvy [RT]

1 day ago
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UMusicClassical Today! Nico Muhly set to appear at Santa Monica Apple Store on the Third Street Promenade TODAY! bit.ly/WD3lR [RT]

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RSNO Monster traffic jams getting out of London today due to tube strike, but it didn't stop the RAH being full for our Prom last night! [RT]

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BerlinPhil Download our 3D video of @BerlinPhil and Sir Simon Rattle. It’s free! bit.ly/cP4tNx [RT]

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ncogb Congratulations to @classicfm - it's their 18th Birthday today! [RT]

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ChicagoPhilharm Seiji Ozawa Conducts (Briefly) for First Time Since Cancer Treatment bit.ly/coaopH [RT]

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nightafternight Spent entire day bent over hot laptop. Shame to miss lovely weather, but I'll thank myself in about 12 days. [RT]

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nytimesmusic Music Review: A Musical Question: Does a Quartet Sound Different in the Dark? nyti.ms/9kHM38 [RT]

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nytimesmusic Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.’s Serve Up the Thumps nyti.ms/9rIfca [RT]

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nytimesmusic Music: In Japan, a Frail Osawa Conducts Only One Tchaikovsky Movement nyti.ms/doKKkk [RT]

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edmsymphony It's a wrap! Thanks to all who came to #yegsuts this year! [RT]

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SanDiegoSymph If you were at the 1812 concert this past weekend let us know your thoughts! [RT]

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RSNO RT @dan_hutton: Prom 69 was extraordinary. MacMillan & Respighi's music coupled with Deneve's conducting made for a wonderful performance. [RT]

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BostonSymphony The Donal Fox Quartet closed out the 2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival highlighting Donal's latest project "Piazzolla... fb.me/EtZBIf54 [RT]

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RSNO Stephane conducting James MacMillan's Interludes from The Sacrifice at the Proms. [RT]

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BostonSymphony This is Julian Lage's third Tanglewood Jazz Festival. Some think he is up-and-coming, we think he has already... fb.me/G1mtZYar [RT]

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edmsymphony Ready, aim... #yegsuts twitpic.com/2lwm5e [RT]

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nytimesmusic The Best of Two Bands at All Tomorrow's Parties nyti.ms/cLVHOR [RT]

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BostonSymphony The Noah Baerman Trio closed out the 2010 Tanglewood Jazz Cafe with a great performance that energized the crowd... fb.me/Ele5sWwR [RT]

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FestSpectrum Classical Love - Music for a Sunday Vol 14 - Moscow Ancient Music Ensemble bit.ly/91ED21 #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

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BerlinPhil Now on YouTube: Simon Rattle and @BerlinPhil rehearse ‘Petrushka’. The video is also available in 3D! bit.ly/bWEN3h [RT]

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FestSpectrum Working in the Shadow of the Master bit.ly/91678T #newmusic [RT]

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FestSpectrum Dan Visconti Wins 2010 Barlow Prize bit.ly/cjfqlI #newmusic [RT]

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FestSpectrum Thinking of the Music of a Rabid Racist on His Birthday bit.ly/bAeLhd #newmusic [RT]

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nightafternight New at @wolfgangsvault - 1965 Newport Jazz Fest sets by Cecil Taylor Unit (http://bit.ly/a6zSlr) & Paul Bley Trio (http://bit.ly/coOTJf) [RT]

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ChicagoPhilharm Yossele Rosenblatt: The Cantor With The Heavenly Voice n.pr/ddde96 [RT]

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ClassicalRev Wednesday 8pm at SoCha is Dvorak's Bday Bash. Musicians - please sign up on the invite if you want to come n play! fb.me/ucV7mFX7 [RT]

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RSNO There are music lovers outside the Albert Hall who have been queueing for Prom tickets since 9am. Must be something exciting going on! [RT]

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edmsymphony Our final #yegsuts performance this afternoon is at the park! Come for the cannons... tix available at the door beginning at 11:30am. [RT]

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FestSpectrum Finally On My Way to Yes - Elizabeth Alexander bit.ly/d2kAJk #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

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BBCMusicMag The 'Campaign for the Traditional Cathedral Choir' newsletter comes through the post. The traditional recycling bin is very grateful. [RT]

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slso STLToday: "SLSO tunes up for new season" ow.ly/2A3tE #stl #stlperform [RT]

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slso STLToday: "Violinist Joshua Bell rings in new SLSO season" ow.ly/2A3oK #stl #stlperform [RT]

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BerlinPhil On this day in 1983: Riccardo Chailly made his conducting debut with @BerlinPhil. Learn more: bit.ly/ce6cCl [RT]

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VASymphony The Classics series opens this weekend with 3 concerts featuring the music of Glazunov, Tchaikovsky and a new work... fb.me/vPxkDHZl [RT]

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VASymphony Our office is closed today in observance of Labor Day. Hope you enjoy the day! [RT]

2 days ago
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FestSpectrum Slow Circles - Aquarelle bit.ly/bn0WBb #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

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londonsymphony First soundclips from our next CD release, Verdi Otello, now online for your listening pleasure! bit.ly/czQxTX [RT]

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BerlinPhil Tonight at the Philharmonie: the Musikfest Berlin continues with @LPOrchestra and Vladimir Jurowski bit.ly/9OUwyU [RT]

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BerlinPhil Morgen Mittag im Foyer der Philharmonie: Unser kostenloses Lunch-Konzert mit Maria Stabrawa und Yoshie Kawamura bit.ly/9QKI1b [RT]

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londonsymphony We have just arrived in Shanghai, 6 hours late and with an unscheduled return to London after plane no 1 developed an engine fault... [RT]

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FestSpectrum Cascanueces y Capricho Italiano de Tchaikovsky - Stores Niversson bit.ly/au3TUb #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

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FestSpectrum Berlioz: Four Cantatas - Dutch Radio Choir and Radio Symphony Orchestra bit.ly/9Ykzrl #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

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FestSpectrum Serenata, Divertimento y Concierto de Mozart - Ferdinand Cononovich bit.ly/aCS5oU #mp3 #nowplaying [RT]

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Free Download: Robert Pascal's Chant d'Aubes

Robert Pascal wrote the Chant d'Aubes in 1991 for cello and tape. This recording is performed by the Ensemble Instrumental so... About 16 hours ago From Alexander Street

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TQOD

Haha, one stanza in my poem is, “When I play my oboe, I am like an Apple product. Improving as time goes by.” It was the ... About 22 hours ago From oboeinsight

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