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Igor and Ludwig: A Choral Match Made in Heaven

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By David Martosko 
| WETA-FM (Arlington, VA)
On music history’s broad timeline, Ludwig van Beethoven and Igor Stravinsky have very little in common. They were born 112 years and 2,300 miles apart. (A trek from Bonn to St. Petersburg is roughly the same distance as New York City to Phoenix.) Their music occupied vastly different places along the trip from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s folksy and intuitive classicism to Arnold Schoenberg’s math-inspired and often listener-unfriendly “twelve tone” or “serial” music.
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Christmas at the Opera: It’s More than Just the Manger

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By David Martosko 
| WETA-FM (Arlington, VA)
“Whaddya mean it’s not a Christmas opera? The first two acts happen on Christmas Eve!” These fighting words poured out of the Peabody Conservatory’s opera studio in Baltimore one day, many moons ago, as I walked past an open door. It was John Lehmeyer, the high-spirited (and legendary) costume designer who Peabody had convinced to direct the staging of entire productions. He was jawing with a conducting student — a man who today has a sprawling international career.
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Smarter News Quiz: Lawsuits, Word Games and M&M’S Politics

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By David Martosko 
| zenger.news
Evacuations, NFL legends and an iPhone bug are in the news.
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