Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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"Vivaldiana" is one of our most popular pieces, people really get it!Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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Pianist Michael Lewin presents a recording of ghouls, ghosts and goblins with plenty of lead time for the Halloween season.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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Seraphic Fire distills eleven season of performances for one CD.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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The combination of the artistry of a maker, performers and composers, ...that's something special.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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"Fauré has a way of exploring all kinds of harmonic possibilities," Sally PinkasPar Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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"There's a way to impact people with the language of music, that we simply cannot do with words!"Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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All the composers are women, but Herndon doesn’t think there’s a specially ‘womanly touch.’Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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My favorite pieces on the CD just talk about me and my life’s journey.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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Then we added other winds like the sackbuts to create what was the premiere instrumental ensemble of the period in the Renaissance.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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"This was a chance for me to put together chamber works that were recently written."Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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Needless to say the string quartets in the world have certainly not played a whole lot of Chopin .Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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"The project was really about finding music that we liked and that was different," Christine Howlett.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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"Our theme for the CD was "graces" or ornaments and these pieces are all about ornaments."Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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" I don’t necessarily see the images when I’m playing, but I do react to the feelings." Michele FialaPar Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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There are some excruciatingly angst-like harmonies and there’s also some very playful stuff !Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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A new CD rooted firmly in the group's early music sounds with some romantic and even twenty-first century sounds.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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The Final CD in John Lenahan’s John Ireland Project features a concerto with a love story?Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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I'm the storyteller with the notes, but the listeners add their own words!Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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When it comes together, it's an awful lot of fun!Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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The Norwegian composer talks about a new recording of his music by the Phoenix Chorale, "Northern Lights: Choral Works by Ola Gjeilo."Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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The group's mission is nothing short of building a standard and expansive repertoire for violin and guitar duos.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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You can see the new gold plated instruments, but you have to imagine those Adidas sneakers.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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Perhaps not semper dolans, but semper O'Dolan?Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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Violinist leaves 'sichord' out of harpsichord for recording session.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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"Happy Austria" was part of the Latin motto of the marrying rather than martial Austrian HabsburgsPar Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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I never think it should be played the same way twice.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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Music for the instrument before and after "the explosion" of the 70s.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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I would say that Josh and I are interested in the beauty of the sounds that come from our respective instruments....Jeremy DenkPar Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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The title does invite 'shuffle' play, but the creators think they've dealt a well sorted hand.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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A tour of Latin-flavored music for solo violin that grew out of a cruise.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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"Making the world safe for classical music, one note at a time." Lara Downes goal!Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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Also there were these catalogs of pieces by Weiss, so I had at least a sense of a taste preference.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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"I wanted to appeal to the audience that still has affection for the music that Andres Segovia made so much a part of the repertoire."Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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We didn’t get Doc Seversen, but we had a young man named Vincent DiMartino and he’s gone on to become the famous Vincent DiMartino of the trumpet world.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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In some pieces I have to think about organ sounds and effects and of course with the orchestra I’m always reminded of the expressive qualities of bowingPar Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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We recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and it sounded so great that it was inspiring.Par Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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