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MyPhil Lets New Yorkers 35 And Under Build Affordable Concert Subscriptions [New York Philharmonic]

October 4, 2008

Consumerist / Carey

MyPhil from the New York Philharmonic lets anyone 35 or younger build their own concert series for $29 per ticket.

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A Man of Many Talents, Eager to Use Them All

October 4, 2008

New York Times

Caleb Burhans is part of a new generation that doesn’t feel compelled to specialize and works easily in classical, rock and much in between.

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A life in writing: Derek Walcott

October 3, 2008

guardian.co.uk home | guardian.co.uk / Interview by James Campbell

Derek Walcott: 'I always cite something that Pasternak said: 'Great poets have no time to be original'

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Music Review | 'Six Saturdays With Messiaen': Reverence and Rapture, Expressed by an Organ

October 6, 2008

New York Times

If anything could convince a committed disbeliever to question that stance, it might be the organ music of Olivier Messiaen.

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Classical music helps in pregnancy

October 7, 2008

USA-World-The Times of India

A team at Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan has carried out the study and found that pregnant women who listen to soothing music like lullabies or classical are less likely to get stressed about ...

Pianist's pianist Schiff excels with Beethoven

October 7, 2008

This is London channel feed

Andras Schiff, named today as one of the Evening Standard’s 1000 Influentials, opened the autumn leg of the Temple Festival 2008 with a recital of four middle period sonatas.

Lenny and Lulu

October 7, 2008

Sequenza21/ / Galen H. Brown

New York’s NPR station WNYC has been doing a bunch of programming on Leonard Bernstein, and the other night when I was moving my car I heard a great story: Lenny was backstage in a greenroom in ...

Pregnant women less likely to be stressed if they listen to classical music

October 7, 2008

Telegraph News | Top News

Pregnant women who listen to lullabies and classical music are less likely to be stressed about their pregnancy a study has shown.

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Perfection is out - participation is in

October 4, 2008

On An Overgrown Path / Pliable (noreply@blogger.com)

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Where classical music and iPhone apps converge (Macworld)

October 3, 2008

Yahoo! News Search Results for music news

Apple's progress in handling classical music on iTunes suggests the App Store's design will also gradually improve.

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Music Review | New York Philharmonic: A New Piece Among the Old, but Not at All Foreign

October 3, 2008

New York Times

The chasms that separated the works that were performed on Wednesday made for an event that felt more uneven than it actually was.

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Musicians willing to muck around for publicity

October 2, 2008

On An Overgrown Path / Pliable (noreply@blogger.com)

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Beethoven quartet cycle should be drawing all ages

October 7, 2008

SacBee -- Lifestyle/Scene / eortiz@sacbee.com (Edward Ortiz)

Two things are absent from classical music these days: humor and young people.

PERFORMING ARTS

October 7, 2008

washingtonpost.com - Style / Post

When pianist Leon Fleisher hit a low after a neurological condition took away the use of his right hand, he found his way out of the darkness through conducting and teaching.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem Mass In D Minor

October 6, 2008

The Walrus Speaks / Hector Diego (noreply@blogger.com)

Listening to classical music 'can relieve pregnancy stress'

October 6, 2008

the Mail online | Femail

Mothers-to-be who listen to lullabies, classical music and sounds of nature are less likely to feel stressed about their pregnancy, a study has shown.

Bargains galore.

October 6, 2008

Cafe Aman / Anastasia Tsioulcas

Normally, Consumerist doesn't cover cultural goings-on, but I was surprised to see their recent nod towards the Phil's attempt to lure the young'uns, which the orchestra has been doing for years and ...

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