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Grammy-Winning Violinist Gil Shaham’s Advice for Young Musicians

By Michael San Gabino |

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Grammy Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham made his professional debut at age 10, an age when most are hardly even thinking about professional work of any kind.


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New Opera Exposes Horrors of My Lai Massacre

By Michael San Gabino |

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Growing up, composer Jonathan Berger reflects, “there was an enormous amount of talk in my house about what really constitutes patriotism, what is a right war and a wrong war…”


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Mystery Writer Sara Paretsky’s 5 Favorite Pieces of ‘Mysterious’ Classical Music

By Michael San Gabino |

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Chicago-based author Sara Paretsky is known for her crime and detective novels, but what may be less well-known is that Paretsky is a longtime fan of classical music.


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Blair Tindall, Author of ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ on Her Best-Selling Book and the Hit TV Series

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Blair Tindall’s Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music shocked readers when it exposed some of the low points of high culture.


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Kent Nagano’s ‘Violent Shift from the Status Quo’

By Michael San Gabino |

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This idea of hearing something new in live music underscores Nagano’s overall outlook of the concert experience.


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