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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Artemis String Quartet plays Beethoven quartets Opus 59/ 1 & 95
Artemis String Quartet plays Beethoven quartets Opus 59/ 1 & 95 (video excerpts with interviews).
Visit the official Artemis web site.
The Artemis make their Boston debut on Friday, March 5 at NEC's Jordan Hall with an all-Beethoven program.
NY Times advocates napping in the workplace
Today's opinion piece on the New York Times Op/Ed page references a new Pew Research Center study on napping and comes away advocating for naps in the workplace. I would read the Pew study, but I just can't keep my eyes open ...
Monday, August 3, 2009
Stumbling into "The Rehearsal" in Aspen
Writer Erik Tarloff stumbles across pianist Yefim Bronfman rehearsing at the Aspen Music Festival in The Atlantic:
"I strolled down into the all-but-empty auditorium and grabbed myself a
great seat. The superb Russian pianist Yefim Bronfman was rehearsing
the concerto with the Aspen Festival Orchestra under the conductor
Peter Oundjian, for a concert scheduled to take place tomorrow. I had
just happened to be in the right place at the right time."
Read all of The Rehearsal.
"I strolled down into the all-but-empty auditorium and grabbed myself a
great seat. The superb Russian pianist Yefim Bronfman was rehearsing
the concerto with the Aspen Festival Orchestra under the conductor
Peter Oundjian, for a concert scheduled to take place tomorrow. I had
just happened to be in the right place at the right time."
Read all of The Rehearsal.
Musicophilia: Six questions for Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of the book Musicophilia, answered six questions for the latest Harper's Magazine. Here's a sample:
"Q. What is it about music that makes it suitable for use as part of a torture regimen?
A. Music’s power does have a dark side. A daily example of this would be musical brainworms, the annoyingly repetitive musical phrases that may run through one’s mind for days on end ..."
Read the complete article.
"Q. What is it about music that makes it suitable for use as part of a torture regimen?
A. Music’s power does have a dark side. A daily example of this would be musical brainworms, the annoyingly repetitive musical phrases that may run through one’s mind for days on end ..."
Read the complete article.
Newly discovered Mozart works get a hearing
An Austrian pianist played the two newly discovered works by W.A. Mozart on Sunday. The two piano pieces, believed to have been written when the composer was 7 or 8 years old (and written out by his father, Leopold Mozart) were performed in a Salzburg house in which the composer once lived. Reuters story.
UPDATE: Here is the more detailed New York Times story.
UPDATE: Here is the more detailed New York Times story.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
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