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Dusty is our guest on Welcome. Sit. Stay. He is a calm gentleman who would like a calm household without other doggies. You can find him at the Siouxland…
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The public garden is often designed for the eye: hedges shaped gracefully, flowers arranged colorfully. For many, visions of gardens, memories of past…
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Mozart's purpose for writing the Serenade in D, K 203, is up for debate. Either it was written for his patron's name day, or it was written for a…
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What I’m recommending today is an assemblage of curious and quick-witted writing from one of my favorite authors.MalcomGladwell is known for being a…
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As the Tchaikovsky Competition is now smack dab in the middle of its final round, we thought it fitting to play the recording made of Van Cliburn at…
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Young Beethoven had applied to and been accepted by Mozart as a pupil, but B learned of his mother's impending death on his way to join M, so the two…
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Written between Verdi's Aida and Otello, the Four Sacred Pieces were the pursuits of a retiree. Each composed at leisure and without the thought of a…
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Producer and rapper Jason Rienert will soon release a mixtape entitled Short Attention Span, Vol. 1. It features Jason and eight other rappers rhyming…
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Yesterday we played Beethoven's Third, the work that more than any other established the modern idea of Symphony. Today we hear Bruckner's First (Linz…
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Like all beginnings of greatness, new understandings, revelations, Beethoven's Third Symphony is steeped in myth. It is so powerful that it almost needs…