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John D. Shepherd

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So It's Not the Opera: C'est la Vie de Boheme

La Vie de Boheme directed by Aki Kaurismaki at the Carpenter Center through October 3 You could be forgiven for


Deconstructing and Discovering Classical Music Through Historically Informed Performance:

Christopher Hogwood is an unlikely classical music superstar. His rigorous training, in both music and classical literature, his insistence on


After the Party: Mozart Revisited, Man and Music

T he "Mozart year" is over. And with it, the excesses that first defined the short-lived Austrian composer and then


Why Classical Music Rocks

T here are two kinds of people. There are those that listen to classical music and those that don't. You


Haydn and More Haydn...Joseph, that is

O ne-dimensional images and easy stereotypes are the currency of our dealings with classical music and classical musicians. Mozart is


Conductor Discusses Mozart

A noted classical music conductor told an overflow crowd in the Mather House Senior Common Room Tuesday that, despite the


Visions of Paradise Found

The spiritual heritage of western civilization is inscribed within the boundaries of the garden and the city. Eden and the