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I know a lot of you around here recall watching with admiration and amazement the steady rise of the Emerson String Quartet, as they moved from complete…
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The 2016 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song will go to William “Smokey” Robinson.About time.The award is administered by the Library of Congress. It was…
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Earlier this week, it was reported that the autograph manuscript of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”) will be auctioned at Sotheby’s this fall.It…
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After a six-month national search, The Hartt School has a new dean.She is Elizabeth “Betsy” Cooper, currently chair of the Hunter College, CUNY Dance…
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Just to get this out of the way, I have no problem calling Brian Wilson a genius.Over the years, some of my classical music friends have clucked at my…
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Flash: The musical is back.What I mean is, the Broadway musical – the art form we sometimes like to think of as America’s signature cultural invention –…
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It has always been my belief that the summer music season is so irresistible because it combines two of life’s most attractive features: (1) summer, and…
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As celebrity milestone birthdays go, Dylan’s 75th passed pretty quietly last Tuesday.I would have expected “Forever Young” to have been screaming across…
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Many of you around here know Kevin Bishop, a violist and Hartt School grad who has established himself as one of the region’s most enterprising musical…
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When we last looked in on the Hartford Symphony Orchestra a little more than three months ago, the management and players had just settled on a new…