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Wednesday, January 30,2008
Present Music at the Milwaukee Art Museum
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Present Music has held concerts at Windhover Hall at the Milwaukee Art Museum for a few years. For the first time the ensemble moved music into the galleries of the museum last Saturday evening in an exploration of the relationships between art, architecture and music.
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Wednesday, January 30,2008
Songs of Courage
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To get at the very roots of classical music (aka “European Art Music”), you have to turn the clock way, way back. Beyond Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven; much earlier even than Bach, Handel and Vivaldi; past Monteverdi and Palestrina, and even before the famous madrigals, lute songs and ballades of the Renaissance.
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Wednesday, January 30,2008
Musical Truths
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Dominick Argento, a wise man and a major American composer, once said to me, “I’m a better person than I could ever be when I listen to Mozart.”
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Wednesday, January 16,2008
Musical Storytelling
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Throughout his life, literature stoked the fire that burned so brightly in the imagination of French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-69). Yet, while many might assume that it was Lord Byron’s “The Corsair” that inspired his concert overture of the same name, it was actually James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Red Rover...
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RadioMilwaukee's Soundboard: Thursday?s Top 5?Fresh Start: New Beginnings
This Thursday, Scott Mullins and I were all about the question on which artists had gotten away from what they were good at, and needed to get back to where they came from to get good again. We’re talking about bands or artists that are still together and for the [...]
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