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Sore pointes to tenor’s elbow |
| ARTMAKING can be a hazardous business for its practitioners. The legendary Polish pianist Ignace Paderewski once hammered out the opening chords of Beethoven's Appassionata sonata so robustly that he tore the tendons in his right arm. Robert Schumann badly injured his hand while finetuning his piano technique. |
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Symphonies turn to young conductors |
| "Youth is hot and bold," Shakespeare wrote. He might have also mentioned it's highly marketable. |
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THE VIOLIN A Social History of the World’s Most Versatile Instrument |
| Amateur musicians are often among the most sensitive and trustworthy chroniclers of the art. One thinks immediately of presidential historian Edmund Morris’s acutely perceptive take on “Beethoven: The Universal Composer”; longtime USA Today columnist Jeannie Williams’s unshrinking evaluation of a magnificent tenor and a deeply difficult man, “Jon Vickers: A Hero’s Life”; and painter Ira Glackens’s irresistibly lively study of the first world-famous American singer, “Yankee Diva: Lillian Nordica and the Golden Days of Opera.” |
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Not Quite a Horse Race |
| Every year on the first Saturday in May since 1875, the eyes of the world are on the state of Kentucky for approximately two minutes to find out which jockey will capture the coveted first prize (and the lion’s share of the now $2,000,000 purse) in the Kentucky Derby. |
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Art’s power heals young hearts |
| CREATIVE play such as music, art and drama can help children deal with traumatic experiences in their lives. |
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Pipe Dreams That Come True |
| The new pipe organ for the Great Hall of Vienna's Musikverein, home of the Vienna Philharmonic, stands 36 feet high and weighs about 28 tons, with 6,138 pipes and tens of thousands of pieces. Operated both mechanically and electronically, it is as complicated as a small airplane. |
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An Orchestra of Prisoners |
| After serving a 14-year sentence for murder, no one would have expected Sarah Jane Coffman to go anywhere near the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River, Alaska, once she was released. |
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Playing the piano better than the pianists |
| Occasionally you come across non-pianists who play the piano better than the professionals. My first composition teacher, Douglas Steele, was a case in point. He was more than a little absent-minded by the time I studied with him and he would sit at a rattly old upright piano in a teaching studio at Chethams School in Manchester and play Hommage à Rameau from Debussy's Images for me every week. |
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Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine |
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A Violin Once Owned by Goebbels Keeps Its Secrets |
| JOSEPH GOEBBELS, in a pinstripe suit, his hair slicked back, gave a simple but philosophical speech about the importance of music. Then, smiling, he handed over the violin to a young woman. |
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