"It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions," notes music critic Richard Williams of Miles Davis's Kind of ...(Read More)
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From ancient Egypt to the royal courts of Europe, from the battlefield to the concert hall, the trumpet has come a long way, suggests Krin Gabbard, but in jazz it is most in its element. Such jazz ... (Read More)
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In the history of modern music, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and its founding director Sir Neville Marriner have had arguably the longest and most productive relationship on record, going ... (Read More)
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A novelist and critic who was passionately interested in opera, Brigid Brophy originally presented this classic piece of cultural criticism in 1964: a wide-ranging, exuberant survey of Mozart's ... (Read More)
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg as well as profiles of Saint Augustine and such apologia as Why I Am a Catholic, lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills here ... (Read More)
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