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The Merry Widow is one of the most popular stage works ever written
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In 1780 Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, wanted a new opera for a court carnival, and Mozart and his librettist Giambattista Varesco got the job. The…
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Jean-Phillipe Rameau was a prolific French composer from the early to mid 18th c. he is best known for his harpsichord pieces and his at least 31 operas,…
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For Episode 290 of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award winning program Between the Keys, The Classical Network’s Artist-in-Residence Jed Distler…
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On Wednesday, 12-12 at noon we'll hear students from the Curtis Institute of Music in Brahms' Piano Quintet in f minor and Alan Shulman's Theme &…
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In the mid 1950's Leonard Bernstein addressed the question of when is a work a musical comedy, or when is it an opera? He took the example of South…