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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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Mountain Stage
1:33 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

The David Mayfield Parade On Mountain Stage

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The David Mayfield Parade on Mountain Stage.

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The Record
11:48 am
Thu June 28, 2012

Adulthood Can Wait: Why Justin Beiber's 'Believe' Works

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He's Only Eighteen: Justin Bieber's new album, Believe, is his fourth to hold the No. 1 spot on the Billboard album chart.
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 6:38 pm

The way people are talking about Justin Bieber's newly minted No. 1 album, Believe — and the transition into adulthood it's meant to represent for the young star — you'd think that he were being prepped for a monarch's throne or the Dalai Lama's robes, not a long career in pop.

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A Blog Supreme
11:37 am
Thu June 28, 2012

A Cirque Du Soleil For The Senses: Five Jazz Groups From Montreal

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L'Orkestre des Pas Perdus' latest album, L'âge du cuivre, was just nominated for a Juno Award.
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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 2:04 pm

C'est la saison de jazz à Montreal! Starting Thursday night and running through next weekend, Francophone Canada's cultural metropolis hosts its grand prix: the Montreal International Jazz Festival. The self-proclaimed "largest jazz festival in the world" casts a musical spell over the city, across 10 outdoor stages, 15 concert halls and clubs galore with more than 1,000 shows.

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The Picture Show
11:31 am
Thu June 28, 2012

Moby's Other Pet-Project: Photography

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Moby takes pictures of The Hives guitarist Nicholaus Arson in 2002.
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Berlin: "There's something really comforting to me about office buildings at 4 a.m., when the lights have been left on for the cleaning crew."
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Toronto: "I believe she is the nun of the future."
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Lausanne: "A sea of people. I particularly like how the form of the crowd reflects the topography."
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"I look at a bleak fortress like this house, with its chain-link fence and fenced-in beat-up car and I wonder, 'What goes on in here? What has gone on in here? And what will go on in here?' "
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"All things considered, my favorite place in L.A. Architecturally it's pretty simple, like a humble little mission chapel. ... [It's] currently an L.A. outpost of the international theosophical society ... and in its past it was ... a directors club where Orson Welles staged plays [and] a little lecture hall where Carl Jung and Aldous Huxley spoke."
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"Maybe some people think that the old, run-down motels and hotels are eye-sores, and are representative or indicative of the seediness and faded glamor of L.A. But I love them."
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New York: "There was this little sign in this weird hallway. It said, 'unattended luggage will be destroyed,' but one word at a time."
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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 5:48 pm

Moby doesn't like proper punctuation. But he does like taking pictures. He writes:

"i don't sleep very well when i travel. and as a result, i tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep. that's where this album, and the pictures that accompany it come from."

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