ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

Fifteen of the Best Duets for Violin and Cello
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ARTISTS

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Interview with Megan Swan
Director of Programming of “From the Top”
From the Top (FTT) is America’s largest platform celebrating young, classically trained musicians. It is a National Public Radio program in the United States, and it has been on for over 24 years. In this interview, Megan Swan, the Director
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COMPOSERS

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Leonard Bernstein
Four Anniversaries (1948) and Five Anniversaries (1949-51)
Leonard Bernstein contributed a modest but significant group of compositions for solo piano. As a noted pianist suggested, “the Bernstein works for solo pianos are a viable addition to present-day keyboard literature, and should not be underestimated.” Among his works
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MUSIC AND ARTS

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Poetry and Music: Johann Paul Friedrich Richter “Jean Paul” (1763-1825)
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825), much better known under his penname “Jean Paul,” was one of the most prolific and prominent writers of his generation. Owing to the structural and linguistic idiosyncrasies of his writings, he was heavily criticized in
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MUSIC OF THE WEEK

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From dances to children’s music to Mozart … each work is an evocation of the past, of a memory, of something that was dear and is now gone. Have a listen!

PLAYLIST

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Unique Concertos
Works by Glière, Daetwyler, Horovitz, Villa-Lobos, Diemer, and Akiho
In its simplest form, a concerto is defined as a musical composition in which one or more solo instruments interact with an orchestra or ensemble. The term concerto is ambiguous because it originated from splicing together two Latin words. “Consere”
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