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On a church rave, Emerson & Beethoven’s secret language.
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On a church rave, Emerson & Beethoven’s secret language.
Luke Lyman on a church rave, Emerson & Beethoven’s secret language.
An association of model train collectors is celebrating its 55th anniversary with a special exhibition at Newark Showground.
Who knew that 18th-century Austrian music scribes were unreliable? Learning that blew Aram Lindroth’s mind. On a 2022 fall break trip to the New England Conservatory in Boston, he found out that not only were some early manuscripts of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and other works riddled with errors, but that the master composer actually used his own sophisticated dynamic markings. Those marks were too sublime for the scribes and didn’t make it into transcriptions.
WOLFEBORO — Wolfeboro Friends of Music continues its 88th season with one of America’s most youthful chamber ensembles, Heifetz International Music Institute on Tour. This encore concert will take place