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The Seven Most Meaningful Compositions That I Will Love Forever — VII. BERIO: Sinfonia
One day during my short stint at Juilliard, the composer Milton Babbitt came to guest lecture one of my composition classes. Mr. Babbitt gave us all a nice lecture on 20th century music and how…
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Coming Soon: 24 Hour Restaurant Battle by Stacey Harwood
So here’s a short video that takes you behind the scenes of the new Food Network program 24 Hour Restaurant Battle. My friend and Time Out New York food pages editor Gabriella Gershenson appears…
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The Seven Most Meaningful Compositions That I Will Love Forever — VI. BERG: Violin Concerto
Occasionally, the story behind the composition of a masterpiece is so entwined with the notes themselves, that it must be heard alongside the music. In February of 1935, the American violinist Louis Krasner (who…
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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…
