Two authors tell stories of the weird and wild in the classical music world

Two authors tell stories of the weird and wil...

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Mahmood Mamdani’s 'Slow Poison' centers politics of belonging in postcolonial Uganda

Mahmood Mamdani — a professor of government at Columbia University and the father of Zohran Mamdani, NYC’s next mayor — has spent decades researching colonialism and its effects on the African continent. His work is both political and personal, influenced by his own experience in ...  Afficher plus

Revisiting ‘Waiting to Exhale’

As the film adaptation of ‘Waiting to Exhale’ celebrates its 30th anniversary, B.A. Parker and Andrew Limbong, along with It’s Been a Minute host, Brittany Luse, revisit its source material about four friends, Savannah, Gloria, Robin, and Bernadine, as they make their way through ...  Afficher plus

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Violin Concerto No. 2 by George Tsontakis
Composers Datebook

Synopsis A concerto, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is “a piece for one or more soloists and orchestra with three contrasting movements.” And for most classical music fans, “concerto” means one of big romantic ones by Beethoven or Tchaikovsky, works in which there is a kind o ...  Afficher plus

Speedy Beet
Radiolab

There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. But in this short, we find out that Beethoven might have made a last-ditch effort to keep his music from ever feeling familiar, to keep pushing his listeners to a kind of psyc ...

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Sibelius Violin Concerto
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

<span style= "color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style= "font-size: small;">There's a joke among classical musicians that the only parts of a piece that matter are the beginning, the end, and one place in the middle.  I don't think its something that anyone ...

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Bruch's Violin Concerto
Soul Music

A Violin Concerto in G minor, Opus 26, became the best-known work of the German composer Max Bruch. Originally written in 1866 it went through many revisions before finally being completed in 1867. It was performed extensively but having sold both the publishing and the manuscrip ...  Afficher plus