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		<title>Brahms plays Jazz</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pennell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johannes Brahms and Eduard Remény (seated) &#160; “My father was a dear old man, very simple-minded, and most unsophisticated.” Those words are from Johannes Brahms. They help to explain why, while studying not just music, but also Latin and classics in school, Brahms had to help pay the family’s bills by playing the piano. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oberlin&#8217;s Peter Takács</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pennell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oberlin College Conservatory has one of the best music school websites I’ve seen. For instance, the faculty section has a video presentation on pianist Peter Takács, where he shares a little about himself. Here, he talks about his recently released CD set &#8211; a complete recording of the Beethoven piano sonatas. Share This Entry:]]></description>
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		<title>Music to Settle an Unsteady World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rescue worker, 11 Sept 2001 (US Navy) Through the ages, very little has done as much as music to settle an unsteady world. Wherever and whenever people have mourned, it has soothed their grief and given them comfort. In this universal art form we find peace, consolation, and reconciliation. Music is, at its core, organized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mendelssohn&#8217;s Italian Symphony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn was about as far from the stereotype of the starving artist as you could imagine. His father was a well-heeled and highly discriminating banker, and he saw to it that Felix got the best education money could buy. Such an education inevitably included mind-broadening travel. Felix was no more than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Performance: Akron Symphony&#8217;s Porgy &amp; Bess</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alvy Powell and Marquita Lister NOTE: This In Performance broadcast will begin one hour earlier than usual, at 2:30pm. Over the last decade, the Akron Symphony Orchestra has periodically programmed opera &#8211; collections of operatic excerpts, and complete concert-format and semi-staged operas. The latter have included Bizet&#8217;s Carmen in 2003 and Verdi&#8217;s La Traviata in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anton Weidinger&#8217;s Keyed Trumpet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Guerrier plays the keyed trumpet The trumpet goes back a long, long way. Trumpeters are depicted in art from ancient Egypt, dated in the 14th century BCE. For most of its centuries of existence, the trumpet was an instrument of royalty, used for playing fanfares. Frankly, that&#8217;s about all it was good for. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mozart&#8217;s Prague Dessert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estates Theatre, Prague, where Mozart conducted Figaro in 1787 (Wikimedia Commons) Much has been written about Leopold Mozart&#8217;s anxiety about his family&#8217;s financial security &#8211; and his own, as he aged. Leopold was unrelenting in his pressure on Wolfgang to find a permanent position. This, as much as anything else, may have precipitated Mozart&#8217;s split [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Scarlatti Play the Piano?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Middle Ages, Italy&#8217;s Medici family was a magnet for artists and artisans, who created extraordinary works under the family&#8217;s generous patronage. In 1688, Florence&#8217;s Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici hired Bartolomeo Cristofori, then 33 years old, to look after his collection of harpsichords. This was an important position: Cristofori was paid as much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andras Schiff on Beethoven&#8217;s Piano Sonata #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia Docking</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The rests are as important as the notes …&#34; Pianist Andras Schiff talks to a Wigmore Hall audience about Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in C. A lecture by András Schiff on Beethoven\&#8217;s piano sonata op. 2 no. 3, courtesy guardian.co.uk The article is part of an eight part series titled &#34;Schiff on Beethoven&#34; by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A film and Commentary on Rachmaninoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pennell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sergei Rachmaninoff rarely smiled in public, so you may think that he was dour. This tribute will show you otherwise. This is the Rachmaninoff of about the mid to late 1920s. He&#8217;s smiling and you can see his love for his granddaughters. And, as one of his friends once reported, he&#8217;s polite. He says &#8220;thank [...]]]></description>
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