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Article: Opinion

Improvisation Versus Composition

Read "Improvisation Versus Composition" reviewed by Robert J. Lewis


What is it that attracts music lovers to jazz (improvised music)? Is it the loose structure, or the beat or the notes and melodies we have never heard before and will never hear again, unless the performance has been recorded? Or is it the musician's uncanny ability to spontaneously translate feelings that inform the notes into ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Fred Hersch: Alive... And Kicking

Read "Fred Hersch: Alive... And Kicking" reviewed by Jiaowei Hu


Few musicians have shaped jazz with such elegant, instinctive, and intimate variations as Fred Hersch. Constantly. Over four decades, life's ups and downs have not stopped him from coming back, time and again, to performing live. No word other than “alive" can be more suitable for the pianist, and it is no coincidence that he chose ...

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Article: Interview

David Sancious: da Monk a Sting

Read "David Sancious: da Monk a Sting" reviewed by Luca Muchetti


Al fianco di Sting e Peter Gabriel, membro del primo nucleo della futura E--Street Band con Bruce Springsteen, senza contare la miriade di collaborazioni accanto a giganti come Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton e Santana. David Sancious è uno dei sideman più apprezzati e raffinati, un polistrumentista che --fra un disco e un tour mondiale --ha trovato ...

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Mozart

Label: Ancalagon
Released: 2010
Track listing: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E-flat Major, K. 364: 1. Allegro Maestoso, 2. Andante, 3. Presto; Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Major, K. 207: 4. Allegro Moderato, 5. Adagil, 6. Presto; Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216: 7. Allegro, 8. Adagio, 9. Rondeau (Allegro).

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Article: Album Review

Scott and Lara St. John / The Knights / Eric Jacobsen: Mozart

Read "Mozart" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Ever since the consumptive and mysterious Nicolo Paganini took the stage, breaking three of his four famous fiddle strings, playing on the remaining G, and declaring “the Artist as Hero," the cult of personality of the artist has become as important and, Indeed, compelling, as that of the composer and the music composed. Today we would ...

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News: Music Industry

The Mozart Effect: How Music Affects Children's Brains

Playing along with the Mozart effect. If you want music to sharpen your senses, boost your ability to focus and perhaps even improve your memory, you need to be a participant, not just a listener. Five months after we are conceived, music begins to capture our attention and wire our brains for a lifetime of aural ...

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News: Event

The American Bar Association Mock Hearing of Mozart's "Don Giovanni"

The American Bar Association  Mock Hearing of  Mozart's "Don Giovanni"

He Broke My Heart; I'll Sing (and Sue) Now on the docket: Donna Anna, Zerlina and 2,065 Jane Does v. the Estate of Don Giovanni. The Don, summoned from the underworld, faced his accusers in a Hilton hotel ballroom-turned-courtroom on Friday afternoon. “The wretched man is right there!" Donna Elvira cried, pointing to her seducer, who ...


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