Feb 18
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra gave its sold-out audience on Sunday afternoon a comprehensive lesson in Russian history. The ensemble’s winter concert in Richardson Auditorium was titled “Simply Russian,” but there was nothing simple about the music performed. Each of the three pieces presented was infused with Russia’s rich past — both the jubilant and the …
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Feb 17
EDMOND — The University of Central Oklahoma School of Music will present a special performance by Tamar Grader, accomplished Boston harpsichordist and UCO guest artist, at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 in the Radke Fine Arts Theatre located in the UCO Center for Transformative Learning. The performance will feature Grader in concert with Tess Remy-Schumacher, Ph.D., …
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Feb 12
Short, squat, silly, a bad actress, with a doughy, cross face and a “figure not advantageous for the stage”: this was Horace Walpole’s yobbish description of the star soprano who created the role of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt in Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724). Matters have improved, not just in the etiquette of criticism. …
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Feb 03
Saturday, January 21, 2012 – 08:00 •How to do‘what to do’What To do is a free listing of special events in the city and region. Priority will be given to community groups, non-profit organizations and family activities. It is not intended as a free listing for businesses which have other promotional options within the newspaper. …
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Jan 30
Editor’s Note: for anyone who doesn’t know it yet, or is not quite sure, she’s Wisconsin’s great claim to modern poetry. less is more. Spare was her language…her words, her lines, her poems. A poet who lived close to the bone in a small cabin on an Island–Blackhawk Island on Lake Koshkonong, Ft. Atkinson, WI …
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Jan 28
BEMF is, quite simply, paradise for those who love early music, and they seem to be a different audience than those who show up for, say, the Boston Symphony or any of the excellent chamber music groups around town. By Susan Miron. While classical music, especially orchestras, has been lamenting for decades about finding audiences, …
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Jan 26
Question by Andison T: what is the mechanism of a Clavichord that differs it from a harpsichord?Does anyboday know what he difference in mechanism is between the harpsichord and clavichord? how does the clavichord produce different dynamics and why it doesn’t have the brillince in tone as the harpsichord. Best answer: Answer by Clavichord: a …
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Jan 24
LOS ANGELES, Calif. /Music Industry Newswire/ — Roland is proud to introduce the LX-15 Digital Piano, an elegant upright-style instrument with grand piano sound and attitude. The LX-15 boasts Roland’s acclaimed SuperNATURAL Piano sound engine, plus a newly developed Acoustic Projection sound system that delivers an inspiring multi-dimensional sound field never before available in this …
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Jan 22
It was a harpsichord maker named Bartolomeo Cristofori who invented the piano in 1700. Cristofori (pronounced kris-TOFF-or-ee) (1655-1731) was from Padua, in the Republic of Venice in northern Italy. He primarily built harpsichords and experimented with new designs, as became customary for builders of keyboard instruments up to the end of the nineteenth century. Cristofori’s …
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Jan 20
IT IS a concert that puts a spring in everyone’s step with its lilting waltzes, polkas and marches. Join the musicians of the Orchestra of Square Chapel for its now traditional New Year Family Concert. You’ll have to wait until Sunday January 8 for this afternoon concert where the celebrations for New Year are provided …
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