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I love TAM Skeptics [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Sky over Vegas the day we left. Dear Bleaders, How’s it rolling? We just got back from Las Vegas where we went to The Amaz!ng Meeting 8. It was amazing. I met a lot…
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The Seven Most Meaningful Compositions That I Will Love Forever — V. BARTOK: String Quartet No. 4
It was the summer of 1969 at National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan. It was my second summer at this magical Music & Arts camp and I had decided to major in Composition rather…
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The One-Letter Change : A Genre [by David Lehman]
A couple of years ago I invented a form without being quite aware of it. I wrote a poem consisting mostly of lines lifted from other sources with exactly one letter changed in each…
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The Seven Most Meaningful Compositions That I Will Love Forever — IV. STRAVINSKY: Le Sacre du Printemps (“The Rite of Spring”)
WikipediaAmazing San Francisco Symphony interactive media: "Keeping Score"Player Piano versionSomeone else's idea of what constitutes a great performance And that is exactly the kind of subjective question which sits before us today, begging for…
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The Seven Most Meaningful Compositions That I Will Love Forever — III. MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor
MAHLER, Gustav: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (1888-1894) During my senior year of high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy, I had the rare privilege of playing Fourth Trombone in the "A" orchestra…
