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Composer Ruby Fulton, whose orchestral piece Road Ranger Cowboy has been nominated for the 2010 Gaudeamus Prize, is currently live in Amsterdam and will be filing reports of the ongoing festivities throughout the week.

By Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum

How can we make compelling visual choices that, when faced with curating live elements, direct the attention of the listener to see, and therefore hear, more musically, deeply and more organically?

By David Smooke

Each concert that you attend might be that transcendent experience that remains with you for the rest of your life. And scientists confirm that your money will be well spent.

Planets, the latest release from Brooklyn lit rockers One Ring Zero, proves itself to be made up of lovely, carefully crafted music that dips into a whole mess of genre styles and timbral possibilities.

Ballet is an art that comes alive though movement. Yet one of the most eloquent ways to capture its essence is through portrait photography, a medium rooted in stillness. Photographer Henry Leutwyler illuminates the personal side of New York City Ballet's principal dancers.

Stéphane Denève comes delicately full cycle
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A new film is set to reveal all! http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3367

Stéphane Delplace gives a wonderfully clear answer:

This is also a great way to film a piano. Via Roger Evans.

Required reading for the first week back at school: Benedict Carey's Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits.

By Alexandra Gardner

I know that for many people the idea of living in another country seems unrealistic, and perhaps a bit scary, but it is an adventure worth taking, whether for study or simply a change of scenery.

The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University has awarded Dan Visconti the 2010 Barlow Prize, which carries with it a $12,000 cash award, to compose a major new work for piano trio.

By Dan Visconti

I've begun a month-long stay at Aaron Copland's former house, and a few glances through old photos reveal that I am indeed using the same butt-cushion that A.C. did. These kinds of silly epiphanies are a welcome counterbalance to the sense of weight that comes from composing at the home of the guy who composed Fanfare for the Common Man.

By Frank J. Oteri,br>
Music history is filled with embarrassing anecdotes and even more substantial character flaws present in many important composers of the past—there's a reason it's taboo to play Richard Wagner's music in Israel#8212;but nothing compares to the vitriolic racism of American composer John Powell, born today, whose music has now been almost completely forgotten.

He was said to have sung while still in the crib, and toured Eastern European synagogues before he was 10. And that was just the beginning. By the 1920s, Rosenblatt had transcended the boundaries of Jewish sacred music to become an international sensation.

Party your Labor Day away with James Russet's remix of Beyoncé's Single Ladies and Mark-Anthony Turnage's Hammered Out, possibly the most awesome mashup of superstar pop and stone-faced orchestral geekdom you'll see this summer:

(Via @EighthBlackbird)

Rupert Christiansen enjoys standing room at the Proms, with more applause - and more hugging.

Verdi, Domingo and Mantua stun the small screens in 148 countries. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3363

In this week's issue of The New Yorker I have a column — available to subscribers and digital readers only — on the Berg and His World festival at Bard College.

The composer's innovations have been distilled and polished to a new, compelling sheen in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet and the new, rock-inflected 2x5. Hear both works here until they're released on Sept. 14.

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Do Londoners appreciate the treasure in their midst? Historic Wigmore Hall is celebrating its 110th anniversary this year with special events but this hall is far more than just another venue.