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A lead role in the battle of Bayreuth *
Gottfried Wagner's portrayal of his kin as unrepentant Nazis hasn't won him an honoured place at the family dinner table.
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Maestro, film music please *
Canadian Howard Shore's score for the Lord of the Rings movies has become a favourite with orchestras around the world, part of a trend in which the once-scorned music of the silver screen is riding to the rescue of symphony orchestras.
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Rare brilliance for a familiar classic *
I sometimes picture Berlioz, born 200 years ago next Sunday, trapped in the popular imagination at the age of 27, penning his famous Symphonie Fantastique in perpetuity.
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The lord of the score *
Composer Howard Shore tells GUY DIXON about his 3½-year musical immersion in Middle-Earth, before heading to Montreal for tonight's North American premiere of his Lord of the Rings symphony.
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How a brilliant kid in Moncton got a Stradivari *
It was a small and quiet crowd that gathered in the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto last Friday morning, but it was an extraordinary ceremony. Eight extremely rare and valuable antique instruments were given out, by a government agency funded by you, to young people, just as a loan, for free.
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Pavarotti chooses Wall Centre as farewell concert Vancouver home *
King of the Tenors Luciano Pavarotti -- who has ruled the world of operatic performance seemingly forever -- has been invited by financier-hotelier Peter Wall to make his home at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel when Pavarotti's world Farewell Tour hits Vancouver in June.
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SonyMusicDirect *
Music...your life? Find whatever your heart desires at SonyDirect.
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