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Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman talks about the evolution of his interpretation of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. Putting old recordings by his clari...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 3
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For your Fundraising campaign, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman reminds your listeners of the power of music. He adds that "finding music that appeal...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2006
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 28
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Violinist Joshua Bell was excited when his record label asked him to record music by two "great melody writers," Leonard Bernstein and George Gersh...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 2
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Violinist Joshua Bell speculates he's performed Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto a thousand times. And each time he plays it, he's reminded of why it...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :24
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Pianist Stephen Hough talks about his approach to making transcriptions of well known music. It's a long-standing tradition that often got out of ...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 2
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Certain pieces of classical music are known to be soothing and even healing for the listener, but it can have similar effects on the composer who a...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 2
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Before Madonna, Brittany and Paris, there was Godowsky. Leopold Godowsky was a piano virtuoso who dazzled audiences around the world in the early ...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2
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Sergie Rachmaninoff's music has been called everything from sappy and sentimental to over-done romantic gush. Pianist Stephen Hough strongly disag...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
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"Asturias" is one of those rhythmically passionate Spanish guitar pieces you've heard a hundred times, but may not know by name. But when you've h...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
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Sometimes music is not just about melody, it's about creating a scene or portraying a character that often redefines the boundaries of "beauty". G...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
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The Stradivarius Violin is the gold standard when it comes to violin making. Although violinist Joshua plays a Strad today, he remembers his very ...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
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Clarice Assad is a composer, singer, arranger, and her musical arena includes classical music, Jazz and Brazilian Pop. When she was asked to write...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 2
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Classical Music isn't always SO SERIOUS. Pianist Stephen Hough has made a specialty of playing little novelty works, known as "miniatures." They'...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 2
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The power of music is so strong for some it takes on religious proportions. That's the case for violinist Joshua Bell. Music IS his religion, whe...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
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Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg fulfills her life-long dream to turn the holiday music memories of a child into her own Christmas Music CD. She...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :23
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Tired of the same old Holiday Music? Pianist Stephen Hough has a few holiday tunes to add to your list. While they're not specifically Christmas ...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
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What makes Handel and Handel's Messiah so powerful and magnificent? That may seem like a question with no complete answer or a long list of answer...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 3
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Recycling one's own music was a common practice in Handel's day. Interestingly, or strangely, one of the best known choruses from Handel's Messiah...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
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There's a longstanding debate over the appropriate time of year to perform Handel's "Messiah." With its Christmas and Easter messages, is it more ...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 5
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Some of America's earliest classical music came from the Moravians, a German Protestant sect, who settled in isolated regions of Pennsylvania and N...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 3