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Tribute to a Theater

Audio guru Mark Levinson seeks to save one of the world’s great opera houses with a commemorative 28-CD release.
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted June 27, 2012
Music sales aren’t the only part of the music biz that’s hurting these days. With recent cutbacks in government funding for the arts—not just in the U.S. but all around the world—some great performance spaces are having major problems paying the bills. One is La Fenice, the famous Venice opera house that dates back to 1792.

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CD Review: Perahia Plays Bach

. . . on a piano, not a harpsichord. Got a problem with that? You shouldn’t.
- By Robert Ripps
- Posted August 7, 2011
Murray Perahia’s recordings of Bach’s Keyboard Concertos, originally released from 2001 to 2003, have now been reissued in this specially priced Limited Edition three-CD set (with a new essay by Jeremy Siepmann) — and if you missed them the first time around, do not make that mistake again.

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"Variations," "Soloist": classical is popular
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 24, 2009
In one of those nice instances of serendipity, classical music — specifically, Beethoven — is the foundation of a new play and a new film.

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