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Super Bowl and Opera: What's the Connection?
For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this past Sunday evening, you probably know the answer to that. For anyone who’s been living on another planet, here’s how it goes: athletic events are always preceded by someone singing the National Anthem, also sometimes know as “Oh Say Can you See?” Previous Super Bowls […]
Blue Moon: the song was right!
Blue Moon Lyrics: Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own Blue Moon, you knew just what I was there for You heard me saying a prayer for Someone I really could care for And then there suddenly appeared before me The only one […]
The You-Tube Symphony: How does that work?
The motley program the YouTube Symphony Orchestra will play at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening was devised partly to ensure every section a place or two in the sun. So after full-orchestral rehearsals at the Juilliard School on Monday — led by Michael Tilson Thomas, its artistic adviser and conductor, and Tan Dun, who composed […]
Healing Music 101 studies music with preemies
Every Sunday afternoon our Healing Music 101 class looks at a different aspect of healing with music. Today we talked about the tremendous benefits of music with preemies. These babies are so tiny that they actually can’t be touched very much. The harp music provides a sensory experience for the preemies and their caregivers that […]