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RichardMitnick

Hey Dave- I remember Ithaca well. I sent my son to the other well known school up there. Graduation dinner was at L'Auberge du Cochon Rouge. My daughter was accepted at Ithaca, on an academic track; but she was really a ballet dancer and choreographer. We sent her to Tisch School at NYU. I am in Cen...

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Hey Ray, thanks for waking me up. I have not been here for a while, busy with my music blog and my science blog. This is a great forum. And, hey, I hope that you will visit my blog, posted below.

>>RSM

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This is a really cool place!

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xd1Q8oW0L._SL500_AA300_.jpg Sonny Rollins Tenor Madness Ojc (1956) With John Coltrane , tenor, Red Garland piano, Paul Chambers bass, and Philly Joe Jones drums (Miles Davis' rhythm section) The writer at Amazon sums it up well: "The title track is battle of ...

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Larry Coryell, John McGlaughlin, Paco DeLucia: Meeting of the Spirits
Quantum Leap (2003)

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Q2, http://www.wqxr.org/q2

All day.

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At Nadia Sirota on Q2 , http://www.wqxr.org/programs/nadia-sirota-q2/ [ http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/5702/nadiaiii.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gnoc-RUIL._SL500_AA300_.jpg Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, and Panaiotis New Albion 2009 http://parmenides.wnyc.org/media/photologu...

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Featured today by Dan Buskirk, WPRB. Dan spins Jazz every Monday 11:00AM-1:00PM Eastern time
http://www.wprb.com

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Bernstein - the 1989 celebration of the coming down of the wall in Berlin http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516dWYWgCAL._SS400_.jpg Euroarts (2009) "Bernstein conducted an orchestra and chorus formed from musicians from both East and West Germany (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle...

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Curiosity, and I did not want to raise it to a PM to moderators: I am "subscribed" to a variety of topics (threads). Yet, it seems as if when I do not check in with the forum for some days, I get no email notifications. Then, when I check in to maybe see what is new, I get a bunch in a torrent. Is t...

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I am just getting into Ross' Listen To This . http://www.bookforum.com/uploads/publication.000/id10021/cover00.jpg So far, chapters I enjoy - Listen to This - the opening essay actually penned in 2004. Infernal Machines - Hiow Recordings changed Music The Anti Maestro - Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los ...

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Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z4rwl-jOL.jpg There is a symphony, The Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus , This symphony has not yet been recorded. However, if one is interested, there is a video, Howard Shore Creating the ...

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I am listening to Q2 , the 24/7 New Music stream, from WQXR directly from the web on my Droid 2 cell phone. Right now, it's Nadia Sirota on Q2 , every week day 12:00-4:00 noon and midnight http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5702/nadiaiii.jpg Nadia is a rising young viola phenom, described as a "New ...

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Jordi Savall Jerusalem http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FWy233vhL._SS400_.jpg Jordi Savall (Composer), Jordi Savall (Conductor), Al-Darwish (Performer), Hesperion XXI (Performer), Les Trompettes de Jéricho (Performer), Francesc Garrigosa (Performer), Luis Vilamajo (Performer), Begona Olavide...

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At http://www.wqxr.org/q2 , “Host Nadia Sirota Celebrates Leonard Bernstein“, http://www.wqxr.org/blogs/q2-blog/2010/aug/25/lenny-92/ on his 92nd birthday. Nadia Sirota, the absolute genius of Q2, but really a virtuoso violist, did an outstanding job curating a four hour program devoted to Leonard B...

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I recently listened to a complete cycle of Bela Bartok. The first two pieces, from around 1896-97, are String Quartets No.1 and No.2.

I thought I must be listening to Elliot Carter.

It was great.

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I agree that WE are better off. I don't know about composers, musical organizations and individual musicians. My musical life is completely digital. I listen on line, http://www.wprb.com , http://www.wqxr.org/q2 , http://www.live365.com http://www.hos.com I buy only .mp3's from Amazon. Readers can c...

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CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival streamed by NPR at
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=92839666
originated by WBGO Jazz 88, Newark, NJ

and WGBH, Boston

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You are certainly welcome to this wonderful and friendly forum.

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I have some Mark O'Connor. I started buying his work when he did Appalachian Journey with Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo-Ma. The standout piece for me is his Fiddle Concerto . But I also have Appalachian Waltz American Seasons Fanfare for the Volunteer Americana Symphony I recommend first listening to the Fi...

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This morning Q2 from http://www.wqxr.org
The New Music source airing and streaming 500 years of the non-generic and fearless music we crave.

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Not today.

Today Schleck almost bested the weasel Contador.

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Going hiking solo, so it's the Zune and

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Well, I guess I came to the right spot to get an answer I don't like to a question I wanted to ask. I have a blog, Wordpress allows me a utility to upload picture file from my own hard drive, in the body of my post. So, I have developed an extensive library of images. So, I cannot use them here. But...

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Welcome. I am not new to Classical music; but here are suggestions based upon my own searchings. Read the book The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. This book, by the current Dean of American critics starts at the beginning of the twentieth century and comes up to pretty recent times. http://images.barnes...

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From 11:00AM-1:30PM, Marvin Rosen, http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org at WPRB, Princeton, NJ, http://www.wprb.com http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQlhdGaWoEoptYxG_-dYraDiKPD7ky1davr14WutvBCyYfEaRg&t=1&usg=__1vVTOSPyYGMJU4MRuZoPO5Hu1lg= http://www.wprb.com/images/head2.gif interviewed Stephe...

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I just finally got Alan Rich's So I've Heard http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LWdBVNOgL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg Alan became a friend over the last few years. I am really enjoying his work. For years I was on his email distribution list ...

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I support BOAC. I buy from their label. Groups like BOAC, the BOAC All-Stars, Ethel, eighth blackbird, ACME, itsnotyouitsme, So Percussion; composers like David Lang, Michael Gordon, Evan Ziporyn, this is what is making things go these days.

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I think that it important to financially support living artists and composers.

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I just received my copy of my friend Alan Rich's book So Iv'e Heard . Alan was acknowledged as the Dean of American critics of classical music. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LWdBVNOgL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg On page xxix, Alan gives ...

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Q2, http://www.wqxr.org/q2 is the home of New Music in all of its diversity on the internet. http://parmenides.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/cache/q2-taxis_medium_image.jpg This Summer, we will be given the opportunity to hear or hear again great and important new pieces from a wide variety of c...

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Keith Jarrett Scared Hyms (1980) ECM

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Nadia Sirota is back on Q2, http://www.wqxr.org/q2 12:00-4:00 midnight and noon http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5744/q2volcanos.jpg Tuesday, June 8, http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2535/24hrsfinna.jpg You can access Q2 with the embedded player or save it as a stream in players like Winamp, and...

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Today, a probably bad band at a wedding.

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Today, Innova-Minimalism at http://www.live365.com

from

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This week on Music From the Hearts of Space http://www.hos.com PGM 913 "TRAN-ASIAN DIFFUSION" http://heartsofspace.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341e7ce553ef0133f000520b970b-800wi About this program, Stephen tells us, "The term "The Silk Road" was invented by a German geographer in 1877. He was describing tr...

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This week on http://www.wqxr.org/q2 Nadia Sirota on Q2 http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3995/nadial.jpg Volcanoes, Scandinavia, etc. Every day, Monday through Friday, Noon and Midnight- Nadia tells us, "I am so happy (finally!) to be back from my ash-extended hiatus. To celebrate (and partly to faci...

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Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JLL9n9oML._SL500_AA300_.jpg (1975) ECM A fine choice. Of course, if you were going to be there a while, and if the rules allowed, you might be better served by the "Sun Bear Concerts". Glad to see a fellow Keith Jarrett fan on...

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maestrob - thanks for the nod. And, John F. - I don't think this was such a narrow escape for WQXR. Laura Walker , the boss lady at WNYC, had been trying to off-load music for years. She had been seeking a different frequency. Admittedly, this thing just fell into her lap. And, she did not do it che...

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Unfortunately, this is going on all over the country. I am an activist PubRadio listener/member, I have a blog, "Whither Public Radio and serious music" (not really active since March, save one post on going digital at home) at http://richardmitnick.wordpress.com , which considered some of the issue...

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Eureeka!! Later today The Sounds of Miles Davis video http://aalbc.com/reviews/the_so7.jpg CBS Television, 1959, Produced by Robert (Bob) Herridge It is MDD, The Gil Evans Orchestra, and a knock-out solo by John Coltrane. This video, lost for some time, has re-surfaced. It is now available from Netf...

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Will Constantine Jr, Blues Bop & Beyond
at http://www.wprb.com
Thursdays 11:00AM-1:00PM

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Thanks for a really well done post.

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Today, Q2 from http://www.wqxr.org/q2 For the music you crave, 500 years of new music, non-generic Classical music. http://parmenides.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/q2v2.jpg Most recently The lines we walked when we walked once together Christopher Tignor * Slow Six If Then Else 001 length: 30:24 ...

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Actually yesterday, but I had no time to post, http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3336/classicaldiscoveries.jpg Marvin Rosen's Classical Discoveries and Classical Discoveries Goes Avant-Garde Marvin had an 11-1/2 hour marathon, celebrating 13 years of the program, with music written in the last 13 y...

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Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JLL9n9oML._SL500_AA300_.jpg (1975) ECM A fine choice. Of course, if you were going to be there a while, and if the rules allowed, you might be better served by the "Sun Bear Concerts". Glad to see a fellow Keith Jarrett fan on...

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jserraglio wrote: This one. L.Foster/BBC SO.
I had expected Foster to conduct the piece from memory; instead he had to refer to the score.

As far as I know, they always refer to the score. Mine was only radio; but I heard paper rustling. Of course, it could have been someone reading the newspaper.

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Right now, Music From the Hearts of Space, http://www.hos.com Program 912 "Warm Front" http://heartsofspace.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341e7ce553ef0134827e4e92970c-800wi About this program, Stephen Hill tells us, "...As spring slowly morphs into summer, the music becomes more energetic and expansive. In t...

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Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JLL9n9oML._SL500_AA300_.jpg (1975) ECM A fine choice. Of course, if you were going to be there a while, and if the rules allowed, you might be better served by the "Sun Bear Concerts". Glad to see a fellow Keith Jarrett fan on...

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.... I am interested to know what one recording - just one - you'd take with you if you were going to be stuck on an island for the rest of your life. Mind you, "stuck" might not be an appropriate word for a place with warm weather, white sand, palm trees, peace & quiet, etc. John Cage: 4′33″ Inter...

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