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Archive for the ‘classical’ Category

June 19th, 2008

North Korean Singer

A little bit of live singing from across the globe: we don’t get to hear much of the fine arts from North Korea, but I found this particular YouTube Video strangely compelling as the lovely waitress sang.

As part of the blog off, I think this is a good example of the value of the fine […]

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May 30th, 2008

An Inconvenient Truth: The Opera!

I swear, I couldn’t make this stuff up.
In the category of “stage to screen” I could probably somewhat justify Al Gore’s famous slideshow, An Inconvenient Truth. After all, it went on to become not just a book but also a Nobel-Peace-Prize winning movie. Well, ok, Mr. Gore got the prize, but it wasn’t for his […]

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March 6th, 2008

Classical Prudery: Vanessa Mae or Janine Jansen? Why not both?

This was going to be an entry about Janine Jansen, the virtuoso violinist reviewed in this article. I was excited by the fact that she seems to be leveraging the power of the web (”…downloads count for 75% of my Vivaldi recording’s sales.”) into supporting her career.
Then this statement caught my eye:
“…while Jansen won’t make […]

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