My self indulgent musicwhoring starts here. Indulge my self induglency!
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Caution: Contents may be historical, but they're still hot! We're serving the classics!
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Join Evan and Chad as they delve deep into the world of Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Horror Novels.
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Preview Houston Grand Opera's 2007/08 Season
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Conversations with science fiction and fantasy authors about the creative process
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Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.
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Ascolta la lettura dei libri di Giovanni Correddu, non solo la sua Musica! Soon you will be able to listen to the reading of Giovanni Correddu’s books, not just his music! Bientôt, vous pourrez écouter la lecture des livres de Giovanni Correddu, pas seulement sa musique! https://bit.ly/36zQQDp Keration Podcast App
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Step into Selene, a city cloaked in darkness and teeming with horrors – from evil headmistresses to murderous marionettes, black worm parasites, haunted hotels, and eerie sleepwalkers. Meet the Paranormal Investigators of Needle Street, newly arrived to battle the encroaching malevolence. Inspired by Poe, Edward Gorey, and Agatha Christie, their adventures promise twisted mysteries and unforgettable characters. Immersive audio brings the city to life, blending dark humor with bone-chilling s ...
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Cinephile, history fan, and one-time Muscovite Ally Pitts explores contemporary and Soviet-era Russian language cinema one film at a time! The show combines interviews and movie discussion, and features expert guests including authors, journalists, stand-up comedians, and indie podcasters. From time to time, it also tackles Hollywood’s attempts to bring aspects of Russian culture, literature, and history to the Silver Screen.
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Luke Burrage reads a science fiction novel and reviews it when he's done. Then he reads another.
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Get ready to sing with Solfege, tap & clap with Sweet Beets & discover the wonderful world of music with Prodigies Music Lessons! Host Mr. Rob presents simple echo songs, solfege exercises and musical appreciation to help build your musical ear, your understanding of the musical language, and your singing abilities. You can learn more about Mr. Rob & and a whole world of colorful music curriculum at Prodigies.com Give your kids an amazing music education today!!
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Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. In collaboration with the best conductors and guest artists on the international music scene, the CSO performs well over one hundred concerts each year at its downtown home, Symphony Center, and at the Ravinia Festival on Chicago’s North Shore, where it is in residency each summer. Music lovers outside Chicago enjoy the sounds of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through best-s ...
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Science fiction and fantasy podcasting at its finest!
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A podcast about classical music, by Sandy Reilly
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Podcast by ABC Classics
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Welcome to Journey Through Classical Piano, the podcast dedicated to helping people of all musical tastes and backgrounds discover the beauty of classical music. This bi-weekly podcast features concert-like musical experiences and in-depth exploration of classical compositions. Your host, classical pianist Jeeyoon Kim, brings the splendor of the classical music experience right to your living room or on the go in 15-minute segments. Let’s embark in the journey together!
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Reviews of non-fiction books and fictional series.
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Welcome to The Millennial Classics, with Mwamburi Mkaya and Swardiq Mayanja. On this weekly podcast we talk about the best and most memorable movies, music, and culture changing events from our generation.
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Podcasts and events celebrating all things book-related, including libraries, bookshops, writers, readers, and everything in between. #TBF
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Get closer to the Edinburgh International Festival with FestivalSoundBites from sinfinimusic.com. Explore the music with introductions, interviews and clips from the artists involved.
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Podcast by Somers/Herron
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Join Bruce Adolphe, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Resident Lecturer, for investigations and insights into chamber music masterworks. Beloved by regulars and a revelation to first-timers for their depth, accessibility, and brilliance, we dig into the ICM lecture recording archive to share our favorite lectures with you.
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Winner of the British Podcast Awards Best True Crime Podcast 2019, Case Notes investigates some of the darkest mysteries from the history of music. From the murderous composer Carlo Gesualdo to the intriguing story of Haydn’s missing head – this is true crime like you’ve never heard it before. Join us as we delve into long-forgotten archives to unearth rich new evidence from decades and even centuries ago. Brought to you by the award-winning Classic FM team.
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Classical WSMR, 89.1 and 103.9, based in west central Florida, features the finest performances of classical music, 24 hours a day, with special features and live performances by internationally acclaimed musicians. The station is also available online at www.wsmr.org and on HD radio on WUSF 89.72.
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“Mozart, Beethoven y Mas “, hosted by Dr. Octavio Choy, is a program designed to provide the tools to appreciate and enjoy classical music. Dr. Choy requests your comments so please feel free to let him know what you think. Along with the history of classical music and composers, there are descriptions of the most common instruments used in today’s orquestra. The program is conducted in Spanish. En Mozart, Beethoven y Mas, el Dr.Octavio Choy nos ayuda a disfrutar de la musica clasica, a trav ...
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Touchstone Award Winner - Best Single Radio Report 2022, Best Radio Show 2020, Best Radio Show 2019, Best Broadcast Radio 2018 Toledo SymphonyLAB™ is an award-winning radio podcast series from WGTE Public Media in collaboration with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, providing a weekly half-hour behind-the-scenes look at the world of classical music. Every week, host Brad Cresswell and TSO personalities explore a theme inspired by a concert or other event from the symphony's season. With lively ...
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This Week from China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts showcases the best-in-class musicianship of the orchestra of Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) and its affiliated programmes in choral music, traditional Chinese forms, opera, and more. With a focus on presenting familiar Western masterworks alongside new and traditional Chinese composers, Maestro Lv Jia and the NCPA Orchestra are sure to delight casual listeners and classical aficionados alike.
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Aria Code is a podcast that pulls back the curtain on some of the most famous arias in opera history, with insight from the biggest voices of our time, including Roberto Alagna, Diana Damrau, Sondra Radvanovsky, and many others. Hosted by Grammy Award-winner and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Rhiannon Giddens, Aria Code is produced in partnership with The Metropolitan Opera. Each episode dives into one aria — a feature for a single singer — and explores how and why these brief musical moments hav ...
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The Last Question is a science and technology podcast from DataFest, Scotland’s premier festival of innovation run by The Data Lab - Scotland’s innovation centre for data and artificial intelligence, hosted by the University of Edinburgh. Join our hosts Gordon Johnstone and Lily Higham as they talk to people at the cutting edge of technology and innovation - from quantum computing to nanotechnology, sci-fi authors to ethicists, from the James Webb Telescope to the search for extra-terrestria ...
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Synopsis When we think of Russian music in Paris, the name Sergei Diaghilev comes first to mind. In the early years of the 20th century, that famous Russian impresario saw to it that not only the new music of Stravinsky was performed in the French capital, but also a historical panorama of earlier Russian works, including Mussorgsky’s opera, Boris …
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Starting with a ferocious fanfare representing fate, Tchaikovsky pours his soul into his Fourth Symphony, a fearless musical autobiography packed with surging melodies and dazzling colors. Antoine Tamestit brings his “gorgeous smoky sound” (The Guardian) to Walton’s Viola Concerto, a work of wistful beauty and quicksilver energy.Learn more: cso.org…
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La Storia della Musica S03E01 Pjotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
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Nuova stagione della Storia della Musica!
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Synopsis “Are people still writing concertos for harpsichord?” you ask. Well, today, we have an answer, which is “Yes!” On today’s date in 2002, this new Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Orchestra by Philip Glass had its premiere performance at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. Glass was asked to write a new Harpsichord Concerto for the Northwest Chamb…
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Un sistema di scrittura cinese che sta scomparendo
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Un sistema di scrittura unico chiamato Nu Shu, compreso solodalle donne, è stato usato per secoli in un gruppo di piccoli villaggi nellaprovincia di Hunan, nel sud della Cina. È stato sviluppato dalle donnecontadine in un momento in cui alle ragazze veniva negata l'istruzione formale.La sua scrittura consiste di circa 700 caratteri fonetici, rispet…
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Synopsis During his later years, German composer Johannes Brahms was a frequent visitor to the town of Meiningen, where the Grand Duke had a fine orchestra that gave stellar performances of Brahms’ music. Early in 1891, Brahms heard one member of that orchestra, the clarinetist Richard Mülhfeld, perform chamber works by Mozart and Weber. Brahms was…
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Una classe generale di dinosauri è nota come saurischi(“sauri-pelvi” o “lucertole con fianchi”), con strutture dei fianchi simili aquelle delle lucertole, anche se molto più grandi. Corrispondono al solitoconcetto di dinosauri: enormi e spaventosi. Fra questi c’era l’apatosauro (precedentemente chiamatobrontosauro), un dinosauro erbivoro che cammin…
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Synopsis In 1871, one year after the premiere in Munich of Richard Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, German-born American conductor Theodore Thomas wrote Wagner asking if he might perform excerpts of this new work in the United States. Wagner turned him down, worried that loose American copyright laws might not protect his new music. Undeterred, Thomas t…
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CSO Program Notes: Eschenbach with Lucas & Arthur Jussen
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Lose yourself in the idyllic landscapes of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. Inspired by the composer’s country hikes, the piece summons rippling streams, a raging thunderstorm and plenty of warmth. Mozart’s double piano concerto showcases the deft teamwork of Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen, who make two pianos “sound for all the world like a …
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CSO Program Notes: Orozco-Estrada Conducts Romeo and Juliet
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Forbidden love is in the air as Andrés Orozco-Estrada takes listeners from the streets of Bernstein’s New York to Tchaikovsky’s fantasy on Shakespearean Verona. The Argentine Pampas region is the setting of Ginastera’s vibrant ballet about a city boy who wins the heart of a rancher’s daughter.Barber’s lush and virtuosic Violin Concerto features Ben…
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🔔 17 settembre 2024: Giornata Mondiale per la sicurezza del paziente
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Gli errori nelle visite dei pazienti causano il 16% deidanni che potrebbero essere evitati in qualsiasi ambiente sanitario. Inoccasione della Giornata mondiale per la sicurezza del paziente, pazienti,famiglie, operatori sanitari e altri si uniranno per sottolineare quanto siaimportante ottenere la diagnosi corretta in modo rapido e giusto per garan…
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Synopsis The book Great Operatic Disasters chronicles the sometime humorous — and sometimes harrowing — mishaps that have befallen opera singers and productions over the last few centuries. According to that book, September 16 seems to have been a particularly unlucky day. Consider that on today’s date in 1782, Italian castrato Farinelli, one of th…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1946, at the Yaddo Music Festival in Saratoga Springs, New York, the Walden Quartet gave the first professional performance of the String Quartet No. 2 by American composer Charles Ives. Ives’ String Quartet No. 1 was his first major work — its manuscript is dated 1896, back when Ives was a 21-year old student at Yale. W…
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Episode 203: Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”; Part 1
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Back again, as promised with one of our friends of the show: Dvorak. We're looking at his New World Symphony (finally), and we'll be making a whole 4 part series about it. Be sure to subscribe, and like and share with a friend! Music: https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.9,_Op.95_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k,_Anton%C3%ADn) https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Creative_…
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The Stormlight Archive #1 The Way Of Kings (Interlude I-1 to End of Part 2)
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Join Evan, Jaysen, and Zoranne for a recap and discussion of The Way Of Kings! Chasmfiends, Shardplate, and knobweed galore. Discussion begins at exactly 30 minutes in! Support BRK: https://www.patreon.com/bookreviewskill BRK Discord: https://discord.gg/RnzHyt5gpv Zoranne IG: @zoranne_ Jaysen IG: @ezeekat…
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Synopsis Today’s date marks the birthday in 1885 of María Joaquina de la Portilla Torres, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Under her married name of María Grever, she became the first female Mexican composer to achieve international fame. She composed her first song at age four, studied in France with Claude Debussy among others, and at 18, one …
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Synopsis The Grove Dictionary of Music defines “aleatory” as follows: “music whose composition and/or performance is, to a greater or lesser extent, undetermined by the composer.” But isn’t music supposed to be organized, planned, determined sound? Isn’t “aleatoric music” a contradiction in terms? Well, not necessarily. Musicians throughout the age…
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Synopsis In 1840, immensely talented German pianist Clara Wieck was eagerly awaiting the eve of her 21st birthday, when she would be free to legally marry the 30-year-old composer and music critic Robert Schumann. The couple had hoped to wed years earlier, but the match was bitterly opposed by Clara’s father. Clara and Robert kept in touch by lette…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1733, French composer François Couperin, known as “François Couperin the Great,” died in Paris. The building where Couperin lived for the last decade of his life still stands in Paris, and like the building, the high esteem afforded this Baroque composer has stood the test of time. François Couperin is known as “The Grea…
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Synopsis The average music lover, if asked to name some notable Baroque composers, will probably answer Bach, Handel, Telemann or Vivaldi. But decades before most of those composers flourished, a number of bold pioneers of the early Baroque period were busily developing new musical forms and techniques. Like most composers born before 1700, details…
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SFBRP #551 – Joe Haldeman – The Forever War – Forever War #1
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Luke re-reads The Forever War by Joe Haldeman to see if it could make it onto the SFBRP Must-Read List, but discovers there are more versions of the novel than he knew, and he read a version that didn’t win the Hugo or Nebula awards. Luke on Mastodon: @lukeburrage@masto.nu Juliane on Mastodon: @JuKuBerlin@mastodon.social Support Luke and Juliane fi…
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Synopsis In September of 1825, Englishman Sir George Smart came to Vienna, hoping to meet Beethoven. Smart had conducted the British premiere of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and wanted, as he put it in his journal, “to ascertain from Beethoven himself the exact tempos of the movements of his sinfonia.” By luck, Smart arrived in time to attend the fi…
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Synopsis The year 2000 marked both the arrival of a new millennium and the 250th anniversary of the death of great German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The International Bach Academy in Stuttgart decided to mark the occasion by commissioning four composers to write four new passion settings, one each after the Gospel accounts of the evang…
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Indovina l'assassino - Speciale Sassari Cosplay 2024
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Code: VHASSTDCNLIBBHQW, TBFDEAWCYI60G04K, UM67BTA95N4LH5JU, KKXMWIIBSGHM8S7W Durante il Sassari Cosplay 2024 è stato presentato un nuovo gioco di ruolo, Indovina l'assassino.
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Synopsis In Pittsburgh on today’s date in 1996, the Latin-American Quartet of Mexico gave the premiere of the String Quartet No. 3 by American composer David Stock. Stock was probably best known for his orchestral music and served as composer-in-residence with both the Pittsburgh and Seattle Symphonies, writing large-scale works for those ensembles…
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Durante il Sassari Cosplay 2024 è stato presentato il prototipo di Equinus, un nuovo gioco di carte basato su Scala 40, ma con un meccanismo e un ritmo di gioco differente. In questo video, vediamo la modalità solitaria, che è meno complessa di quella a più giocatori.
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Synopsis Today we note the birthday anniversary of American composer and teacher Wayne Barlow, who was born in Elyria, Ohio on today’s date in 1912, and died in Rochester, New York, in 1996. As a composer, Barlow is mostly remembered for a single work: a rhapsody for oboe and strings entitled The Winter’s Past, first performed at the Eastman School…
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🔔 La Giornata Mondiale per la Prevenzione del Suicidio
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Il 10 settembre sarà la GiornataMondiale per la Prevenzione del Suicidio. Quest’anno, l’OMS ha deciso di sensibilizzarela popolazione mondiale riguardo all’importanza di ridurre questa macchiaprofonda e incoraggiare conversazioni aperte per prevenire oltre 70.000 suicidiche avvengono ogni anno. Come possiamocontribuire Avviare una conversazione in …
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1980, Satyagraha, an opera by the American composer Philip Glass had its premiere in Rotterdam by the Netherlands Opera. Four years earlier, Glass’ first opera, Einstein on the Beach, had scored a big hit not only in Avignon, France, where it had premiered, but also at a special, non-subscription performance at New York’…
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