MUSIC
“It’s OK To Not Like Things!”
by Andrew Taylor | The Artful Manager
I hereby nominate this video and this song to serve as an invocation to every professional arts conference in 2012. It's short. It's to the point. It carries an important message. And it sticks with you (boy, does it stick with you).
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Thank you, Jascha Heifetz, for your Music
by Campbell Britton
You set the virtuosic standard for violinists, wore your soul in your instrument and informed my entire lifetime of musical sensibility. I appreciate your mother’s courage in venturing outside the Jewish Pale in (Russian) Lithuania to give you training and performance opportunities in the early part of the twentieth century. And her legac More...
Break Those Genres! Yo-Yo Ma and Goat Rodeo Sessions
Yo-Yo Ma has always been a musical adventurer, and so are his collaborators Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile and Aoife O'Donovan. Their new album, dubbed Goat Rodeo Sessions for the chaos it suggests, is a spectacular blend of classical, bluegrass, and avant-pop music by artists at the height of their powers.
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