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Popcorn Preview: A Late Quartet
- Film: A Late Quartet (2012) Cast includes: Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt), Imogen Poots (Fright Night), Catherine Keener (Capot...
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ReThink Review: A Late Quartet -- Strings, Bows, and Arrows
- Maybe you're like me and know next to nothing about classical music, string quartets, and the men and women who perform it. But none of those things kept me from enjoyin...
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Will Pete Campbell of Mad Men Commit Suicide -- To the Music of Beethoven?
- Did a Beethoven-soaked Man Men hint at a Pete Campbell suicide coming later in the season? There were hints coming out of the pre-season publicity that one major charact...
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Billy Bragg's New Odes to Woody Guthrie--and Beethoven
- From folk to punk and back again, Billy Bragg has long been one of our most important and popular "political" songwriters. He's even become something of an inheritor of ...
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Revolution No. 9: How I Went From Beatles to Beethoven
- Yesterday in this space I began exploring how in my musical life I had not long ago gone from "Roll Over, Beethoven" to just... Beethoven. I had a long background in roc...
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Roll Over, Chuck Berry: How a Longtime Rock 'n Roll Editor Became Obsessed With Beethoven
- For nearly all of the 1970s, I served as the #2 editor at the legendary "rock culture" magazine Crawdaddy in New York City. I interviewed dozens of rock stars, from F...
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Playing for Change's "Groove in G," Plus a Conversation With Author Paul Samuel Dolman
- Here is the new video from the international collective Playing For Change, "Groove in G," featuring a pulsating bed of Indian, African, Jamaican and Brazilian percussi...
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Au Contraire! The King's Speech
- In a movie about the British preparing themselves for war against Hitler, surely the symphonic score should not rely on Beethoven and Brahms. Perhaps at the beginning of...
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From D.C.'s Kennedy Center to East of Angel Town: Conversations with Branford Marsalis and Peter Cincotti
- Legendary jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis has been accumulating a series of honors with the upcoming NEA's Jazz Masters Award being one of the most prestigious yet. He and h...
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Beethoven's "Hymn of Thanksgiving": The Greatest Piece of Music Ever Written?
- To give us some perspective on this day: Beethoven in 1825, very late in his life, wrote the third movement, molto adagio, of his string quartet opus 132, offering th...
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A high-spirited St. Bernard wreaks comic chaos around his neighborhood in this animated adaptation of the family movie series.