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| Ballet Stories
by David Angus
The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves... |
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| Benjamin Zander on Music and Passion
by Benjamin Zander
Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. |
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| CBC Radio: Beethoven's Nine Symphonies in 9 Days Podcast
by Bramwell Tovey
Nine conversations about Beethoven's nine symphonies. Bramwell Tovey - Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - and CBC Radio 2's Bill Richardson consider these mighty works and talk about what makes them so powerful. |
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| Classical Music 101
by Fred Plotkin
Classical Music 101 is a highly accessible guide to discovering the glories of classical music. |
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| Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love... |
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| Discover Music of the Romantic Era
by David McCleery
Amid a background of wars and revolution, the 19th century produced many of the world's best-loved composers, including Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky. |
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| Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers: Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Shostakovich. |
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| Great Masters- Mozart: His Life and Music
by Robert Greenberg
This course is a biographical and musical study of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), who composed more than 600 works of beauty and brilliance in just over 20 years. |
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| Handel As Orpheus
by Ellen Harris
MIT Professor of Music Ellen Harris discusses Handel's chamber cantatas written from 1706-23, from a social point of view, exposing the exclusive and secret homosexual society in which they were created. |
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| The History of Classical Music
by Richard Fawkes
From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. |
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| The History of Opera
by Richard Fawkes
Opera, said Moliére, is the most expensive noise known to man. From its beginnings in the 16th Century, through to today when there... |
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| The Life of Mozart
by Perry Keenlyside
Hear the story behind today's most often performed classical composer's accomplishments, during his short life of just 35 years. |
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| Masterpieces of Western Music
by Jeffrey Lependorf
From the "Spring" of Vivaldi's Four Seasons to Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, our appreciation of musical masterpieces can be deeply enhanced by an understanding of what makes them great. |
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| Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words
by Friedrich Kerst
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this "wunderkinder" took to the stage and began his life as a prolific and celebrated creator-genius of such luminous works the world has not known since. |
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| Opera 101
by Fred Plotkin
Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher and former performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces listeners, whatever their level of musical knowledge, to all the riches of opera, the fastest growing of all the performing arts. |
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| Pavarotti: My World
by Luciano Pavarotti
In the world of opera today, there is no one more famous or better loved than Luciano Pavarotti... |
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| The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. |
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| Rock 'n' Roll and American Society, Part 1
by William McKeen
An author and university professor whose books include scholarly works on The Beatles and Bob Dylan, William McKeen here tackles the role of popular music in American culture. |
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| Selected Letters of Beethoven
by Ludwig van Beethoven
A selection of Beethoven's letters from the compilation by Dr. Ludwig Nohl and translated by Lady Grace Wallace. |
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| The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop.... |
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| Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music
by Richard Freedman
Music is a performative art. It stresses movement through time and engages our suggestive sense of its passing. Music has tendency, it normally invokes goals of various sorts, both near and far. |
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| Voice Lessons
by Anne Peckham
Welcome to the Berklee Shares Web site. Here you will find free music lessons that you can download... |
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