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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Jimi Hendrix and Charles Ives
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They may never have been mentioned in the same breath, but I'm thinking now these two men may be cut from the same cloth. In Pittsburg...
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Lorin Maazel, 1930-2014
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I arrived in Pittsburgh in the summer of 1996, just after Lorin Maazel's final year as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchest...
Friday, July 4, 2014
Lou Gehrig's farewell speech
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Today is July 4th -- a day of celebration throughout America. It also happens to be the 75th anniversary of Lou Gehrig's farewell addres...
Friday, June 13, 2014
Music in May
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A few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of working with 56 young musicians selected to play in the Music in May Festival Orchestra, hosted...
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Esa-Pekka Salonen, new media icon
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In October, I was in Los Angeles to hear Esa-Pekka Salonen conduct his Violin Concerto , written for Leila Josefewicz and the Los Angeles Ph...
Friday, May 2, 2014
Frank Ticheli
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Tonight, the Hartt Orchestra will be performing works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Hindemith, all of which are classics in the orchestral repe...
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Derek Jeter's timing
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Wallace Matthews, who covers the New York Yankees for ESPN, was asked yesterday about Derek Jeter's recent announcement that 2014 would ...
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