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    Celebrating Classical Music Month with Exciting Page Turners

    Celebrating Classical Music Month with Exciting Page Turners

    As part of our ongoing celebration of Classical Music Month in September, we’ve pulled together a list of books that commemorate the great composers of the past through to the celebrated contemporary composers of today. Then we’ve sprinkled in some

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    LISTEN ON THE RADIO

    LISTEN ON THE RADIO

    Pacific Symphony’s official classical radio station, Classical California KUSC is part of the most-listened-to network of classical music radio stations in America, serving more than 900,000 listeners each week from Nothern California to the Mexican border.  Popular radio personality Rich Capparela hosts the Pacific Symphony

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    Meet Michael Clive, Pacific Symphony’s program annotator

    By Erica Sharp “Sometimes as a joke I refer to myself as ‘your intrepid annotator,’” said Michael Clive, longtime program note writer for Pacific Symphony, in an interview last week. He had just arrived back at his Connecticut home and

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    Ticket deal for ‘Watts Plays Beethoven’

    Readers of this blog will receive 20 percent off of their ticket purchase for ‘Watts Plays Beethoven’ by going here and entering the promo code “blog”. The concert features the venerable André Watts as soloist in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto and

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    New Yorker cover

    Several classical tunes here. Can you name them?

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    Miscellany

    An inside look at James Levine’s lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera…. The musicians of the Atlanta Symphony have a new contract, negotiated without rancor…. John Williams’ next “Star Wars” film will be his last…. Here’s a fresh idea for a

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    Rules for young conductors

    For those of you who ever wonder what, exactly, a conductor does (and for those who are just curious), we offer you Rules for Young Conductors by the conductor and teacher Pierre Monteux. These won’t answer every question you might

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    Pacific Overtures, December

    The December newsletter is out a day early … Pacific Overtures. December, 2017.

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    Happy Thanksgiving

    This seems appropriate for the day, one of my favorite recordings of Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony, with Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Happy Thanksgiving.

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    Listen to this: Rondo

    As we discussed in a previous post on the Minuet, classical music doesn’t always have to be as hard as it seems to be. With some simple listening tips, the arcane (seeming) can often become clear. Let’s take a look

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