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Deceptive Cadence
3:04 pm
Wed November 21, 2012

Max Richter Recomposes 'The Four Seasons'

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Composer Max Richter's new album takes on Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
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Originally published on Wed November 21, 2012 4:57 pm

Composer Max Richter has done a brave thing for any artist in any medium: He's messed with a classic, specifically, Vivaldi's four violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. He has a new album simply titled Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons.

Richter says that as a child, he loved The Four Seasons. But as he grew older, that passion faded.

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Deceptive Cadence
11:03 am
Wed November 21, 2012

Ode To Joy Of Cooking

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By Pablo Helguera

Originally published on Wed November 21, 2012 11:12 am

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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Deceptive Cadence
9:37 am
Wed November 21, 2012

Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week

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Chopin, whose Ballade No. 1 in g minor is one of the "musical moments" that inspired a New York Times series.
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Originally published on Thu November 29, 2012 12:29 pm

  • In the New York Times this week, Anthony Tommasini has a series in both print and video about those microcosmic musical moments like "a fleeting passage, a short series of chords, some unexpected shift in a melodic line — when something occurs that just grabs us." What links these diverse bits from Chopin to Puccini to Mahler together?
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