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The Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra's John Slegers tells us about tonight's concert, "Musical Universe," featuring Holst's The Planets, Mozart’s Jupiter…
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The founder and de facto leader of the Might Handful, Mily Balakirev's influence on musical history is maybe more famous, more discussed, than his music.…
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Just when you thought you had heard about everything that Leonardo DaVinci had thought about – you now will hear he thought about musical instruments, and…
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Beach's "Gaelic" Symphony, the first American symphony composed by a woman, came about at a time when composers and critics were beginning to ask what…
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By their beauty or depth, many symphonies may be said to have saved a life. Shostokovich's Fifth Symphony, however, saved the composer's life quite…
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Lament, rage, bombast, it's all there in Sir William Walton's First Symphony. Written on the bones of a failed relationship, the first three movements…
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So says Death in Matthias Claudius's poem "Der Tod und das Madchen," the poem that inspired Schubert's song of the same name, composed in 1817. Seven…
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Holst would be disappointed with us today as we play his best known work, The Planets. The composer was famously vexed that this work eclipsed all else…
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Beethoven's Sixth will forever be tied to his Fifth, like twins who seemingly come from different families. These two symphonies were not only written…
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Two of the United States's greatest artists made their living selling insurance: the poet Wallace Stevens and the composer Charles Ives. By remaining…