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Friday, October 28, 2011

In Memory of James Yannatos: Symphony No. 5, "Son et Lumière"

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Last week, we got the sad news that James Yannatos — an accomplished composer and the longtime conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Innocuous as a Film Score: Williams' Sinfonietta for Winds and Percussion

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On October 25th, roughly two months before the movie is released in American theaters, John Williams' soundtrack for Steven Spielberg...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Basque Mozart Effect: Arriaga's First (and Only) Symphony

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For some of the composers we've covered here, it is truly baffling that they aren't better known. These are the symphonists whose wo...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Milhaud's Symphony No. 1: "Choose Your Own Subtitle"

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Unsung Symphonies is happy to welcome Louis Epstein , a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Harvard University. Louis is writing a dissertatio...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

What The Parasitic Hymenopter Tells Me: Aho's "Insect Symphony"

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Finnish composer Kalevi Aho 's Seventh Symphony  ( Hyönteisinfonia , "Insect Symphony") may be the most high-minded work ever...
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