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  Jordan Randall Smith

  

  Frederic Rzewski, Politically Committed Composer and Pianist, Dies at 83

  The New York Times - William Robin

  Correction: July 2, 2021 This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of a picture caption with this obituary referred incorrectly to a 1963 festival Mr. Rzewski was shown rehearsing for. It was Six Concerts of the Avant Garde (the name was later changed to …

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  Jordan Randall Smith

  

  The Radical Queerness of Julius Eastman

  VOGUE.COM - Erik Morse

  When the post-minimalist composer, pianist, and Grammy-nominated vocalist Julius Eastman died homeless in a Buffalo hospital in 1990 at the age of 49, it took nearly eight months for the New York art and music worlds to learn of his passing. The once dynamic, and often provocative, musician had been …

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  Jordan Randall Smith

  

  When Beethoven Got Booed and Other Stories From Music’s Weird History

  The Daily Beast - Scott Porch

  The revolutionaries take center stage in “Music: A Subversive History,” a big dive into the under-explored lives of the visionaries who bend the …

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  Jordan Randall Smith

  

  Podcast: Introducing the music of Florence Beatrice Price.

  naxos.com - Naxos

  Born in 1887, Florence Beatrice Price went on to become one of the first prominent African-American composers. Following a move to Chicago in 1927, …

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  Jordan Randall Smith

  

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – Barbara Strozzi • Classical • Kings Place

  kingsplace.co.uk

  Barbara Strozzi was famed throughout 17th century Venice for her glorious voice and artistry, ‘la virtuosissima cantatrice’ of the city state. Yet …

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  Jordan Randall Smith

  

  Period pianos evoke sounds of Chopin at new contest - France 24

  France 24

  Warsaw (AFP) – A rare collection of historic grand pianos emits the authentic but forgotten sounds that transport the audience at a celebrated new music competition in Poland back to the times of Frederic Chopin. Unlike their modern, glossy black, lacquered heirs, the instruments dating from the 19th …