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The Awfulness of Classical Music Explained

Richard Dare | Posted 05.29.2012

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At classical music concerts, there are a great many "clap here, not there" cloak-and-dagger protocols to abide by. if I could clap when clapping felt needed, laugh when it was funny, what would that be like?

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What Happened to the Generation Gap?

Kurt Ellenberger | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears, Pop Music, Beethoven, The End of History, Music Eras, Teen Rebellion, The Beatles, 80s Pop Music, Francis Fukuyama, Miles Davis, Rammstein, Madonna, Wham, George Michael, Heart, Lady GaGa, The Eurythmics, Culture News

Why are teenagers listening to music that their parents were dancing to 25 years ago instead of rebelling against it? When I was 13, I may have had some knowledge of pop stars from a quarter century earlier, but I certainly didn't like any of their music.

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Sheet Music Collages Are Music To Our Eyes

Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Art, Video, Beethoven, Sheet Music, Martin Luther King Jr., Erika Iris Simmons, Female Artists, Slidepollajax, Tape Art, Collage, Arts News

It never ceases to amaze us how music notes can sometimes take shape and come to life. Artist Erika Iris Simmons gives us a glimpse of what it might l...

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Beethoven's Eroica Symphony Remixed As A Rhythmic Jam

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 04.18.2012

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Beethoven's Eroica Symphony is epic, but can you dance to it? Brooklyn Philharmonic's Beethoven Remix Project challenged listeners to take the fina...

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Will Pete Campbell of Mad Men Commit Suicide -- To the Music of Beethoven?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Don Draper, Beethoven, Pete Campbell, Mad Men Episode Recap, Mad Men Pete Campbell, Mad Men Season 5, Mad Men Recap, Pete Campbell Mad Men, Video, Entertainment News

There were hints coming out of the pre-season publicity that one major character would die this year. And I'm sure few missed Pete's seemingly esoteric reference to owning a shotgun last night.

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Beethoven's 5th As A Bar Graph

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 04.10.2012

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Music is embedded with mathematical logic -- But it can be hard to hear the patterns beneath the sounds. Which is where visualizations come in. Wh...

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Less Is More in The Kid With a Bike

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: The Kid With a Bike, Beethoven, The Kid With a Bike Movie Review, The Kid With a Bike Review, Dardennes, Arts News

Coming of age stories are a dime a dozen in the world of film, but this one, with its fine acting and unobtrusive direction, packs a considerable punch.

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The Pancake Ballet: Spring, Beethoven and Honoring Grandma

Alysia Reiner | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Children, Raising Children, Ballet, Spring, Pancakes, Memories, Classical Music, Change, Mindfulness, Loss and Grief, Beethoven, Dealing With Grief, Renewal, Piano, Family, Healthy Living News

Spring has sprung. And with the shift in the weather, the daffodil blossoms, the window box we planted yesterday, comes magical renewed hope. And memories.

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A Diva's Life?

Susanne Mentzer | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Tucson, Classical Music, Opera, Tucson Opera, Beethoven, Missa Solemnis, Arts News

This week I am singing the alto part in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. This is a piece that I do not quite get. Try as I might to see the overwhelming emotion in this piece, I am ashamed to admit it is lost on me.

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Billy Bragg's New Odes to Woody Guthrie--and Beethoven

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Billy Bragg, Classical Music, Folk Music, Beethoven, Entertainment News

From folk to punk and back again, Billy Bragg has long been one of our most important and popular "political" songwriters.

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Soundtrack for Global Protest: Beethoven Calls the Tune

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Demonstrations, Occupy, Beethoven, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Video, Beethoven's Ode to Joy, Beethoven Protests, Beethoven Ninth, Beethoven Protests 2012, Beethovens-Ode-to-Joy, Arts News

Yes, many know that the "Ode to Joy" has been transformed into the anthem of the European Union. Or that Leonard Bernstein assembled a massive orchestra to perform the Ninth in Berlin to mark the shattering of the Berlin Wall, with "Ode to Joy" changed to "Ode to Freedom."

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How Beethoven Became My 'Heavy Metal' God

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Beethoven, Bruce Springsteen, Culture News

During the 1970s, I attended shows at Carnegie Hall by Neil Young, Van Morrison, Carole King, Bill Withers, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson and others. Now it was for the renowned St. Petersburg Orchestra, with young Julia Fischer performing Beethoven's only violin concerto.

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Revolution No. 9: How I Went From Beatles to Beethoven

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Beatles, Beethoven, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Music, Beethoven Music, Entertainment News

The truth was, I was bored with good old rock 'n roll. Probably I felt that Beethoven might represent fertile new ground, for I knew almost nothing about him beyond the deafness, and didn't even know when that set in or, for that matter, exactly when or where the great man lived.

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Roll Over, Chuck Berry: How a Longtime Rock 'n Roll Editor Became Obsessed With Beethoven

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Beethoven, Rock 'N Roll, Rock and Roll, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

My exposure to classical music was limited, by choice, and Beethoven was little more than a key "droogie" in A Clockwork Orange. But then, as I approached my 60th birthday, something happened. My life has gone from "Roll Over, Beethoven" to just... Beethoven.

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From Classical to Hip-Hop: Why Beethoven Still Inspires Me

Drumma Boy | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Hip Hop Music, Hip Hop, Music, Beethoven, Kanye West, Memphis, Drumma Boy, Quincy Jones, Waka Flocka, Drake, Culture News

Though I flirted with selecting one genre and perfecting it, once I began studying the diverse career of iconic composer Quincy Jones, I began to realize that the merger of Hip-Hop and Classical music is not impossible -- it is inevitable.

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PHOTOS, VIDEO: Haiku Reviews: From Braque To Bach

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Classical Music, Peter Frank, San Francisco Theater, Beethoven, Opera, Turandot, Lawrence Vittes, Georges Braque, Pacific Standard Time, George Heymont, Bach, Larry Bell, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a biweekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the tradit...

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

Laurence Vittes | Posted 11.30.2011

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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5 Bizarre Dark Sides To Modern Orchestras

www.cracked.com | David Moye | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Classical Music, Drugs, Seedy Underbelly, Modern Orchestra, Beethoven, Weird Arts, Sexism, Weird News News

Most people think of the orchestra as a hoity-toity elevator music club invented for your granny's listening pleasure. And while it's true that mo...

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At Church Of Beethoven, Music Is The Message

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 10.05.2011

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"Go on; don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets," Beethoven said. "Art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise men to the Divine."

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Astoria Characters: The Memory Keeper

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Stamp Collection, Astoria, Cooper Union, Beethoven, Bea Frish, Chicago, Eleanor Roosevelt, Connecticut, Astoria Characters, World War II, Schubert, Fdr, Great Depression, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., Wedding, Nostalgia, New York News

Saving nearly a century and a half of family memorabilia is a remarkable feat. "I'm a keeper," 86-year-old Bea Frish says.

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Have Baton, Will Travel: Classical Music Combine in New Orleans

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Classical Music Competitions, New Orleans Musicians, Leonard Bernstein, Classical Music Investing, Beethoven, Classical Music Conductors, Saint-Saens, Arts News

The League of American Orchestra's biennial conductors' preview showcase is designed like the talent evaluation combine that pro football teams hold every year.

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Petrov, Dvorak, And Prazak: Classical Music In Southern California

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pavel Petrov Feb. 18th; Irvine Presbyterian Church, 7:30pm 4445 Alton Parkway Irvine, CA 92604-4705 When I heard the Russian-American pianist Pav...

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Au Contraire! The King's Speech

Glenn Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The King's Speech, Hitler, Brahms, Beethoven, Helena Bonham Carter, The Oscars, Colin Firth, Tom Hooper, Musical Supervision, Geoffrey Rush, Soundtrack, Entertainment News

On the occasion of the King of England declaring war against Hitler, under what possible pretext can the filmmakers explain the score blaring the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony?

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A Morning Concert, A Revolution in Egypt

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan Biss, New York Philharmonic, Tahir Square, Joseph Stalin, Egypt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Beethoven, Andris Nelsons, Hosni Mubarak, New York News

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony couldn't have been a more perfect thing to hear after learning of the revolution in Egypt.

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Classical Music Review: Beethoven Comes to Costa Mesa

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Classical Music, Costa Mesa, Pacific Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles, The Romances, Beethoven, Ray Chen, Arts News

The Pacific Symphony deserves a story all its own. While the Los Angeles Philharmonic has noticeably aged, the PSO mixes experience with youthful energy in a way that seems forever young.

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