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...pours out her dreams in poems. On old paper salvaged from her office wastebins, she writes Dias de Mis Suenos, The Days of My Dreams: "I think of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and invite them to a party and give them a gift. Always the night ends with them drinking and playing music that makes me escape from this place...
...concert will feature three pieces: Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Mozart's Piano Concerto...
Boston Chamber Music Society. Performworks by Shostakovich, Brahms, Beethoven. SandersTheatre...
...learned early on that the great composers like Mozart and Beethoven were also terrific improvisers, Fox said. He described how jazz music has moved in one century through all of the phases that Western classical music did in three, progressing from folk expression to avant-garde experimentation. Fox feels that jazz, like current classical music, sacrifices originality for technical perfection. He emphasized that "Jazz is about exploring," and that this element must be preserved. Theory and form should take a backseat to creativity, explained Fox, and he offered his paraphrase of Stravinsky as evidence: "Stravinsky said, `I like this chord...
...music industry--would be topic for discussion. Murray and Fox spent much time discussing what both saw as the problems facing jazz today. For Fox, the greatest danger was the "tendency now in jazz to be re-creative, to read [jazz solos] as if they are Beethoven scores." Murray echoed by warning against becoming like those musicians who "learned all these notes and... forgot to develop their own sound...