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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Nov 17, 2008
For years, Bartók's music has been the subject (some might say, the victim) of obsessive analysis: Is this chord the mashed-together notes of that tune? Does the Fibonacci series really govern his structures? Can any …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Oct 10, 2008
The string sextet is a rare genre -- there are only a handful of good ones -- and performances tend to be workmanlike, thrown-together affairs; either a string quartet brings in a couple of guests for one or two …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Oct 6, 2008
The New York Philharmonic often plays with the insouciance of a society belle: projecting an expensive elegance, purring, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful" over an exquisite shoulder.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Oct 4, 2008
It is perhaps the one time in a museum that it is advisable to lean in very close. And while you're at it, take it all in from several angles as well.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Sep 30, 2008
An imaginative program in a venue both stately and intimate opened the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra's 17th season Sunday at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Sep 22, 2008
The National Symphony Orchestra came charging out of the gate on Saturday night. The opening of Glinka's overture to "Ruslan and Ludmilla" was hell-for-leather: a thundering, exuberant stampede. Not surprisingly, given …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Sep 22, 2008
No, it's not "American Idol," although it does have some of the flavor of "Star Search." The six finalists from among 249 applicants for the post of music director of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra are conducting one …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Aug 30, 2008
Some people build model airplanes. Others work out any Type-A compulsions through scrapbooking (we know you're out there, with your die cutters and gluey fingers . . .).
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Aug 22, 2008
Of his Seventh Symphony, written in the darkest days of World War II, Dmitri Shostakovich once said, "I wanted to create the image of our embattled country, to engrave it in music." Valery Gergiev, one of the most …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Europe - Aug 21, 2008
TSKHINVALI, Georgia, Aug. 22 -- On the steps of the bombed-out Parliament building Thursday, down the street from a neighborhood in ruins, the black-suited maestro prepared to lead a concert he aptly called a requiem …
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