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	<title>Contrapuntist &#187; Classical Music</title>
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		<title>CSO Resound releases first recording with Riccardo Muti – Verdi’s Requiem</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/09/04/cso-resound-releases-first-recording-with-riccardo-muti-%e2%80%93-verdi%e2%80%99s-requiem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is ready to kick off its first concert season with Riccardo Muti later this month.  In January 2009, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Muti, at the time the music director designate, performed Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. Recorded during a sold-out concert, the live recording is the newest release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago&#8217;s Baroque Band Invites Audiences on a Musical Journey through Heaven and Hell with Their Four-Concert Series, Angels &amp; Demons</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/09/01/chicagos-baroque-band-invites-audiences-on-a-musical-journey-through-heaven-and-hell-with-their-four-concert-series-angels-demons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola da Voce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baroque Band, Chicago&#8217;s period instrument ensemble, is offering a special four-concert subscription series for their 2010-2011 season. The series, entitled Angels &#38; Demons, includes innovative programming which features &#8220;hellishly&#8221; difficult music by Arcangelo Corelli and &#8220;angelic&#8221; music from the court of English monarch Charles II. A subscription to all four concerts can be purchased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yo-Yo Ma&#8217;s Silk Road Project &#8211; an Amazing Performance of Persian Folk Song &#8220;Ascending Bird&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/08/27/yo-yo-mas-silk-road-project-an-amazing-performance-of-persian-folk-song-ascending-bird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola da Voce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Contrapuntist mentioned in a previous post, we were fortunate enough to attend a performance at Ravinia Festival by Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project. The outstanding concert began with a performance of &#8220;Ascending Bird&#8221;, an arrangement of a Persian folk song by Silk Road Project members Colin Jacobsen and Siamak Aghaei, which tells [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concert Review &#8211; Yo-Yo Ma&#8217;s Silk Road Project</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/08/22/concert-review-yo-yo-mas-silk-road-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/08/22/concert-review-yo-yo-mas-silk-road-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrapuntist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two mornings, I have woken up thinking about the concert I attended on Friday of the Silk Road Project, an ensemble organized by Yo-Yo Ma.  It was the first time I was able to attend a Silk Road Project concert and if I can help it, I won’t miss future concerts when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tickets Are Now on Sale for MusicNow, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra&#8217;s Critically Acclaimed New-Music Series</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/08/12/tickets-are-now-on-sale-for-musicnow-the-chicago-symphony-orchestras-critically-acclaimed-new-music-series/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/08/12/tickets-are-now-on-sale-for-musicnow-the-chicago-symphony-orchestras-critically-acclaimed-new-music-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola da Voce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anna Clyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chamber music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tickets are now available for MusicNOW, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra&#8217;s new-music series, which offers innovative works by some of today’s most prominent composers and young artists.  The concerts are programmed and hosted by Mead Composers-in-Residence Mason Bates (b. 1977) and Anna Clyne (b. 1980) with MusicNOW Principal Conductor Cliff Colnot. The music is performed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we in the middle of the Golden Age of Classical Music?</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/08/02/are-we-in-the-middle-of-the-golden-age-of-classical-music-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/08/02/are-we-in-the-middle-of-the-golden-age-of-classical-music-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrapuntist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heather Mac Donald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Conlon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in the U.S. we have the perception that classical music is dead or dying. On some level that maybe true, on another, not at all. Even I have succumbed to the rhetoric that classical music is on its way downward. But after reading a great article by Heather Mac Donald, “Classical Music’s New Golden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Musical Transformation &#8211; How One Young Palestinian Man Went from Throwing Stones at Israeli Soldiers to Opening Music Schools in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/07/10/a-musical-transformation-how-one-young-palestinian-man-went-from-throwing-stones-at-israeli-soldiers-to-opening-music-schools-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola da Voce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it is music which will change the world - Pablo Casals I heard a moving story by reporter Sandy Tolan on NPR this morning about how music changed the life of one young Palestinian man. In 1988, a photographer in the West Bank took a picture of eight-year-old Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan with tears in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips to Revolutionize Your Playing from Master Violist Kim Kashkashian</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/07/08/tips-to-revolutionize-your-playing-from-master-violist-kim-kashkashian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/07/08/tips-to-revolutionize-your-playing-from-master-violist-kim-kashkashian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola da Voce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I had the pleasure of observing world renowned violist Kim Kashkashian&#8216;s master class with students from the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia Festival. Both the students who I observed were violists, but Kashkashian gave valuable advice which could apply to musicians of any instrument or genre. Here are some tips which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago&#8217;s Own Renowned Classical Violinist/Metalhead Rachel Barton Pine to Headline Free Performance in Millennium Park on July 11</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/07/02/chicagos-own-renowned-classical-violinistmetalhead-rachel-barton-pine-to-headline-free-performance-in-millennium-park-on-july-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola da Voce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Barton Pine will headline Chicago&#8217;s Great Performers of Illinois Festival on July 11 at 7:00 PM at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. The annual festival, which takes place from Friday, July 9-Sunday, July 11 includes more than 50 performers from throughout the state playing pop, rock, jazz, Latin, reggae, and classical music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Library Uses Classical Music to Scare Away Teenagers from Its Front Entrance</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/06/30/canadian-library-uses-classical-music-to-scare-away-teenagers-from-its-front-entrance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2010/06/30/canadian-library-uses-classical-music-to-scare-away-teenagers-from-its-front-entrance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola da Voce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to this story on the London Free Press, the main branch of the London Public Library in Canada has been using classical music to chase teen loiterers away from its front entrance. The teenagers have been a persistent problem for years: Margaret Mitchell, the library&#8217;s director of quality improvement said loitering crowds of teenagers [...]]]></description>
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