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Yo-Yo Ma performs "The Swan", from Camille Saint-Saëns's The Carnival of the Animals. Source link
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Argentine pianist Martha Argerich performs Chopin's Scherzo No. 2.Bonus video! Another instrument I'm just learning about: the Northumbrian pipes. Source link
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Swiss-born composer Arthur Honegger's Pacific 231. From the notes to the video, Honegger explains the inspiration for the piece: "I've always loved locomotives passionately," he says, "for me they are living things ...…
New Yorker Being Stabbed On Street Corner Glad To Know Mamdani Focused On Bringing Netanyahu To Justice
NEW YORK, NY — As a mugger repeatedly stabbed him on a Manhattan street corner, local resident Ethan Wallace took comfort in the knowledge that Mayor Zohran Mamdani remained laser-focused on bringing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to…
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Lorraine Min and the Victoria Symphony under the direction of Tania Miller perform Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No. 4. Source link
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An interesting selection of dissonant passages from music composed before 1800. Source link
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Zara Dolukhanova sings, from J.S. Bach's sacred oratorio, Matthäuspassion. Source link
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The first movement of Maurice Ravel's piano suite, Gaspard de la Nuit, performed by Seong-Jin Cho.Bonus video! Yet another musical instrument I had never heard of. Source link
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French baroque-period composer Jean-Féry Rebel's "Le Cahos" from his ballet Les élémens. The opening sounds astonishingly modernist in its dramatic dissonance. Source link