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Eroica Symphony and Beethoven: Youthful Fire or Brooding Anguish?

by Jeff Baker | May 18, 2020 | All Posts, Food For Thought

  On May 18, 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was declared Emperor of France. The legendary story of Beethoven hearing the news and tearing up the title page of his Third Symphony is something we often remember when we think of the Symphony, which we now know as the...
The Shared Experience of Live Performance

The Shared Experience of Live Performance

by Jeff Baker | Apr 17, 2020 | All Posts, Food For Thought

by Stephanie Wilson, Deputy Director, New West Symphony There’s a moment, just before the curtain goes up, when the performers are posed onstage holding their breath and knowing that just on the other side of that curtain, the audience is doing the very same thing. ...
Classical music stars who weren’t star students

Classical music stars who weren’t star students

by Jeff Baker | Aug 15, 2018 | All Posts, Food For Thought

The musical greats weren’t always so great in an academic setting. We’ll bet you didn’t know these classical musicians were less than star students. George Gershwin, the great American songwriter and pianist, often played hooky as a hyperactive...
Is Jacob Collier our century’s Beethoven?

Is Jacob Collier our century’s Beethoven?

by Jeff Baker | Aug 1, 2018 | All Posts, Food For Thought

Jacob Collier, 23-year-old vocalist and multi-instrumentalist from London, has taken music by storm in recent years with his radical jazz reharmonizations and other-worldly music theorization. Known for his “Super-Ultra-Hyper-Mega-Meta-Lydian” scale and...
Chamber music returns to the living room

Chamber music returns to the living room

by Jeff Baker | Jul 18, 2018 | All Posts, Food For Thought

Classical music still has a fighting change among the younger generation, thanks in large part to Groupmuse! Groupmuse is an innovative project that connects classical musicians with people’s living rooms, to put on chamber music performances! Intimate and...
Is video game music “serious” music?

Is video game music “serious” music?

by Jeff Baker | Jul 13, 2018 | All Posts, Food For Thought

Some would say video games are saving orchestral music. At the very least, concerts of video game music have become a popular among younger audiences. Listen to the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform music from the classic video game, “The Legend of...
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