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regional youth orchestras help fight music education inequality
The pursuit of the dream of classical music is not an equal playing field.
My recent study looked at the inequalities rural and regional young classical musicians face, which are unknown to their city-based counterparts.
There are systemic music inequalities in Australia based on where you live and where you go to school. Inner-city, private school kids are often the most likely to access music education. Kids living in rural areas are the least likely to have music opportunities.
Music inequality also exists…
Free classical music | The Most Musical Music
Submitted by jsdubois015 on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 15:32
I'm sitting here listening to the Bach suites for cello performed by one of the greats, Mstislav Rostropovich. While I greatly admire the symphonies of Beethoven and Brahms and the operas of Wagner, it is the music for the lone performer that intrigues me the most. Being a trombonist, much of my performance experience has been as part of a group, be it an orchestra or wind ensemble, or a smaller chamber group. Although I do enjoy the ensemble…
I’m going to a classical music concert for the first time. What should I know?
Classical music is surprisingly controversial.
For some, it’s a pinnacle of cultural achievement. For others it perpetuates class inequality and upholds “white middle class social domination”.
To controversy, we can add contradiction! We love to hear the instruments and idioms of classical music in film and television (think of the theme from The Crown or the music from the Harry Potter films), but experience has shown classical music is most effective at repelling loiterers from public spaces.
Engaging with the…
Musicologist: Beethoven and Mozart’s music is ‘not bad, it’s decent’ – SlippediscSlippedisc
norman lebrecht
November 16, 2022
The racial-theory New York musicologist Philip Ewell is on the prowl again. He has just been given a glowing report in Yale News.
Read this:
His father, a Black intellectual who attended Morehouse University with Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1948, was “committed to excellence” for himself and his children. In the mid-20th century, Ewell explained over Zoom, the conceptions of excellence by which he was surrounded were deeply intertwined with ideals of whiteness and…
Free classical music | The Power of Art
Submitted by jsdubois015 on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 10:02
I recently had a rather interesting conversation with a friend of mine. She is currently going through law school and has a keen interest in politics. We each also share an interest for the other's respective fields; me for politics and she for the arts. Our conversation centered around basically the current state of affairs in the world and, regardless of which side of the political fence you sit on, the eminent disasters the…
Handel’s Messiah, Royal Albert Hall
Handel's Messiah, Royal Albert Hall
Handel's Messiah, Royal Albert Hall
Joe Lloyd
George Frideric Handel may have embraced England, but England embraced his music. MessiahAn oratorio, adapting passages from the King James Bible, is one of his greatest achievements. First performed in 1741, it has become a Christmas ritual, the "Hallelujah Chorus" is one of the most popular classical music in the country.For this traditional annual performance, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra!-- TDT>…
John Williams, 90 today, is our greatest living composer
John Williams, the man who changed the way we hear the movies, turns 90 today.
As the key Hollywood composer during the blockbuster era of the 1970s and 1980s, Williams had an astronomical career alongside the likes of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
With his music for their movies, Williams revived the romantic orchestral sound of Hollywood’s Golden Age – the sound pioneered by composers Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner at the dawn of the talkies – and reinvented it for a new era.
“John…
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Handel’s Messiah, Royal Albert Hall
Handel's Messiah, Royal Albert Hall
Handel's Messiah, Royal Albert Hall
Joe Lloyd!-- TDT>…
What is Gregorian chant? | Classical Music
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Free download: Weill, Symphony No.2, III: Allegro Vivace
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Performance
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Practicing
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Teaching
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Learn How to Practice Your Instrument Focusing On the Process.
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