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Exploring Music: This Month's Stories

This month we have our usual eclectic assortment of great stories about the wonderul, odd, funny and brilliant people who helped make classical music and jazz lasting and relevant.

  • Did Haydn REALLY write violin sonatas?
  • Lionel Hampton - the man that makes it all happen
  • The exciting truth about 17th century Italian trombone sonatas that no one will tell you...(wink wink)
  • Can't tell the difference between a canzona and a sonata? Yeah, neither could the composer...
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This Month's Musical Heritage Review

Early But Inspired

Early But Inspired

Mark Kanny

In February 1977 the new ensemble of Erick Friedman, Emanuel Vardi, and Jascha Silberstein performed the complete string trios of Beethoven to honor the sesquicentennial of the master's death. Fortunately,...

Early But Inspired

Mark Kanny

In February 1977 the new ensemble of Erick Friedman, Emanuel Vardi, and Jascha Silberstein performed the complete string trios of Beethoven to honor the sesquicentennial of the master's death. Fortunately,...

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Handel: First Composer of Organ Concerti

Handel: First Composer of Organ Concerti

David M. Greene

Organ concerti are not all that common. Besides the three sets written (in some form) by Handel, all that I can think of off of the top of my head...

Handel: First Composer of Organ Concerti

David M. Greene

Organ concerti are not all that common. Besides the three sets written (in some form) by Handel, all that I can think of off of the top of my head...

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BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS: Janacek's Two String Quartets

BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS: Janacek's Two String Quartets

William Zagorski

I find Leos Janacek's life story almost as amazing as his music. Through most of his musical career he demonstrated a minor talent at best. His early works, as charm­ing...

BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS: Janacek's Two String Quartets

William Zagorski

I find Leos Janacek's life story almost as amazing as his music. Through most of his musical career he demonstrated a minor talent at best. His early works, as charm­ing...

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Mozart and His Works

Mozart and His Works

Harry Halbreich

Mozart's Paris stay in 1778 was not a happy time for him. Not only did he lose his mother, but his efforts to set foot in the professional world were...

Mozart and His Works

Harry Halbreich

Mozart's Paris stay in 1778 was not a happy time for him. Not only did he lose his mother, but his efforts to set foot in the professional world were...

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Reviewing A Reviewer by A Reviewer

Reviewing A Reviewer by A Reviewer

David M. Greene

At an age at which most of my contemporaries have retired to Florida or some other lotusland, I have begun a new career: I have become a music critic. Not,...

Reviewing A Reviewer by A Reviewer

David M. Greene

At an age at which most of my contemporaries have retired to Florida or some other lotusland, I have begun a new career: I have become a music critic. Not,...

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Figures in a Revolution

Figures in a Revolution

David M. Greene

Musically speaking (not necessarily in honied tones), a virtuoso nowadays is a performer who can play very fast and who, to the popular mind, looks generally like "Professor" Irwin Corey....

Figures in a Revolution

David M. Greene

Musically speaking (not necessarily in honied tones), a virtuoso nowadays is a performer who can play very fast and who, to the popular mind, looks generally like "Professor" Irwin Corey....

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