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Blog Entries by Laurence Vittes from 09/2011

A Naked Soprano At The Maribor Festival: Classical Music Breaking Free

| Posted 09.15.2011 | Arts
Read More: Naked Soprano, Music Festivals, Rock 'N Roll Poetry, Summer Music Festivals, Slovenian Students, Sollima, Arts News

2011-09-15-orchestrapull.jpg In the comfortable confines of Maribor's Union Hall, Tognetti let loose musical hounds of hell in Gyoergy Ligeti's Violin Concerto.

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Visualizing Beethoven And Other European Music Festival Adventures

| Posted 09.19.2011 | Arts
Read More: Classical Music Circus, Summer Music Festivals, Furtwängler, Hitler, Barenboim, Mehta, Nobel Peace Prize, Arts News

During my madcap tour through European summer festivals from Moritzburg (Germany) to East Lothian (Scotland), more reminiscent at times of a classical...

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A Music Critic On Stage, Topless Beaches And Tapas Bars: The Quincena Music Festival In San Sebastián

| Posted 09.30.2011 | Arts
Read More: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Enrico Casazza, Beethoven, Dani Espasa, San Sebastian, Quincena Musical Festival, Davide Pozzi, Wdr Orchestra, Brahm, Jordi Domenech, Arts News

The Quincena Musical Festival was torrid as advertised. So were the topless beaches, to which my wife and I can testify. And there was a music critic who performed at a concert by a countertenor in a convent.

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