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Deceptive Cadence
11:03 am
Fri June 29, 2012

Macaw And More

Credit Pablo Helguera
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 3:27 pm

Got an idea for a classical cartoon, or a reaction to this one? Leave your thoughts in the comments section.

Pablo Helguera is a New York-based artist working with sculpture, drawing, photography and performance. You can see more of his work at Artworld Salon and on his own site.

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Arts
1:00 am
Fri June 29, 2012

Rock author: AC/DC better with Bon Scott

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Cover for Joe Bonomo's book.
Joe Bonomo, NIU professor and rock essayist.
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  • "Highway to Hell" song with Joe Bonomo commentary.
  • Joe Bonomo reads an excerpt from AC/DC's Highway to Hell.
  • Morning Edition version (June 29, 2012)

AC/DC was better with Bon Scott? For many AC/DC fans, those are fightin' words.

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Concerts
1:38 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

Live From Tanglewood: The Boston Symphony Orchestra

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra opened their 75th anniversary season at Tanglewood on July 6, 2012.
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Picnickers started arriving hours early for this concert; by the time the music started, some 12,00 concertgoers packed the Shed and Tanglewood's grounds.
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Conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi has been a frequent guest conductor at the Boston Symphony Orchestra recently.
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In an ideal pairing of music of setting, the orchestra played Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral."
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The all-Beethoven concert began with the Leonore Overture No. 3.
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Dohnanyi's gestures at the podium were mostly very restrained.
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The program for this opening night at Tanglewood on July 6, 2012, replicated the very first concert the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave at their then-new summer home in 1937.
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The Boston Globe called this performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony "full, open and robust," and praised Dohnanyi for "lean textures kept his Fifth from tipping over into the land of flabby orchestral cliche."
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The weather could not have been more perfect for dining and listening to music al fresco.
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Originally published on Mon July 9, 2012 6:59 am

Seventy-five years ago, an American institution was born: Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a cultural mecca to arts lovers and the musical refuge for generations of young artists.

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