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BOOK/MAGAZINE: Book Review (Illustrated): Pops

5347 days ago

All About Jazz — Terry Teachout, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Houghton Mifflin, 474 pages, $30) A good biography of a musician makes the reader want to listen. Alexander Wheelock Thayer triggered that compulsion with his life of Beethoven, Marion Hildesheimer wi... more info

Review: The Takacs Quartet stops in San Jose on the way to Carnegie Hall

5347 days ago

Mercury News, California — In a consistently strong program, it was interesting to see what this group, among the world's best, played best and loved the most: Beethoven. more info

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Picking up the beat

5348 days ago

Buffalo News, New York — Matthew Bassett was in fourth grade in Cleveland when he heard Beethoven's uproarious Seventh Symphony. And something clicked. more info

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Letters: The sound of money

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Guardian Music — One reason only music by "long dead composers" is being played in the "thriving musical culture" in Britain (Letters, 6 February) is that amateur orchestras cannot afford the enormous cost of hiring sets of orchestral parts, since most modern works a... more info

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Beethoven tops new DSO schedule

5350 days ago

Detroit Free Press — When times are tough, people want a sure thing. And in classical music, that means Beethoven, one of the few names on a marquee to all-but-guarantee boffo box office. more info

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Pierard/New Zealand Symphony/Judd: Ah! Perfido | CD review

5350 days ago

Guardian Music — (Naxos)Beethoven wrote his incidental music to Goethe's Egmont for a Âproduction in Vienna in 1810. ÂDealing with the Âtransgressive love between the Âaristocratic Egmont and the Âbourgeois KlÃ¤rchen â€“ both involved in theÂ... more info

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LSO/Gardiner | Classical review

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Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThere has been a lot of Beethoven in London of late, much of it high-profile and all of it high-class. At the South Bank, Daniel Barenboim's performances of the concertos with the Berlin Staatskapelle coincided with the OAE's Âsymp... more info

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Lang Lang | Classical review

5351 days ago

Guardian Music — Symphony Hall, BirminghamLang Lang concerts have the Âhallmarks of celebrity: a capacity crowd, a later-than-Âadvertised start, camera flashes, Âapplause in the wrong places, and a young man who lollops and glides like a pop idol. For the Ch... more info

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Baby Monster, May 68 (Egyptian Hip Hop Remix), Free Energy Free MP3 Downloads

5353 days ago

NME - The Daily Download — Baby Monster have made a few appearances on this blog before. We posted their remix of Wolf Gang's 'Pieces Of You' last July and their own single 'Ultraviolence & Beethoven' the following October. If you can't remember it sounds like this and you can... more info

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