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The first in our summer chamber series are recital performances by Canadian violinist Corey Cerovsek from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner museum music library.


The first concert I attenmded featuring Corey was in Hamilton, ...

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The rules will be kept simple: here’s what I found, here’s where I found it, here’s a couple of sentences about it and (possibly) some opinions.

Not unlike Olympic Figure Skating, I will provide two sets of marks (letters A to D) on sound quality (SQ) and on overall impression (OI). These grades are entirely subjective, but here are some guidelines:

• About “sound quality”: my point of reference is my iPod (160 GB iPod Classic) with standard

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After the numbers 2, 4 and 9, a post about the number 3 – as in the number of movements in our featured symphonies.

Symphonies traditionally follow a 4-movement pattern: sonata (variations of the ABA form) – slow – dance ...

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In our June look at “music by the numbers”, time to look at number “9”.

In past blogs, I have discussed some famous nines already: Bruckner’s and Beethoven’s Ninth symphonies come immediately to mind. In today’s playlist, I bring up another pair of favourite ninth symphonies: Dvořák‘s and Mahler’s ...

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The (classical) music legacy of MP3.COM

Mp3.com, co-founded in November 1997 by Michael Robertson and Greg Flores is a historically significant URL for indie artists, who in the site's heyday provided most of its content. From its beginning to when Vivendi took over and eventually evicted the indies, it was a once ever mecca for unsigned bands and solo acts. Now ...