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After 250 years, it’s safe to say that America has found its footing when it comes to classical music. From the earliest colonial-era fife and drum tunes, to full length contemporary operas, here are 50 pieces of classical music specifically associated with each of America's 50 United States.
Universal Music: Capuçon; BrantleyGutierrez: Ma
IMG Artists: Sumuel; Miina Jung: Hillebrand
All summer long, WCRB is spotlighting American music and the composers who weave the musical fabric of our country.
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Ahead of "We The People," a week-long festival he curated for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma speaks about the power of practicing gratitude, music's role in restoring the spirit, and what we can learn from Johannes Brahms. -
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The third stop on a tour of America's natural wonders, through the music of composer Ferde Grofé. -
The second stop on a tour of America's natural wonders, through the music of composer Ferde Grofé.
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Longtime BSO-collaborator Bell returns to Tanglewood as the violin soloist in Max Bruch’s virtuosic “Scottish Fantasy,” and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Robert Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s "Marmoris." -
Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Boston Symphony in the passionate Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s "Tristan and Isolde" and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7, as well as Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Yefim Bronfman. -
In the final part of a concert series led by Music Director Andris Nelsons pairing works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Himari makes her BSO debut as the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, followed by Tchaikovsky’s blazingly triumphant Symphony No. 5.
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The two-time Grammy-nominated Neave Trio celebrates the diverse voices that have shaped, and been shaped by, American musical traditions.
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GBH Music and Emmanuel Music showcase the radiant spirit of J.S. Bach's music for the season, featuring his Christmas Oratorio.
What makes an opera performance great? GBH Music partnered with Boston Lyric Opera, New England Conservatory of Music, and legendary opera singers Patricia Racette, Susan Graham, and Davóne Tines to explore an extraordinary art form.
From NPR Music
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Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in. -
Harpo Marx — the "silent" Marx brother — can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.
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On The Bach Hour, Rudolf Lutz conducts the composer's Cantata 168, in which fearsome metaphors from the natural world are answered by allusions to eternity.
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