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...Radio Corporation of America (a subsidiary of General Electric) as a ploy to sell radios. (Radios absent programming, after all, are rather worthless.) Dubbed the National Broadcast Company, it originally had two separate networks, both focused primarily on the East Coast: the Red Network, which broadcast entertainment and music, and the Blue Network, which carried news. In 1927 the West Coast got its own version of the Red and Blue with the creation of the Orange and Gold networks, which largely showed the same programs. Two years later NBC broadcast its signature three-note chime for the first time...
...when all three ended up at the Julliard School for their master’s degrees, and Yoon joined the group to complete the line-up, they won a Chamber Music America residency to live and play concerts in North Dakota. “We packed up and moved from New York City to Grand Forks, North Dakota. Culture shock is probably an understatement,” says Beaver...
That burgeoning reputation also led to their being selected for the Blodgett Residency at Harvard for 2008-09. The Blodgett Residency is a two-year-long program which, according to the Harvard Department of Music website, “provides for distinguished artists and ensembles to spend four weeks each year in residence at Harvard University offering workshops, coaching and lessons to Harvard students.” Each residency requires the group to perform at least one free public concert...
...most interesting and sometimes his most intimate work into his quartets,” Sirota says. “Beethoven went through such dramatic artistic and aesthetic changes over the course of his life that you can put together programs that are interesting, and have a great variety of music, just made up of his quartets...
...second year of their residency, the quartet is setting about continuing the diverse projects they began last year. In 2008 the group spent its four weeks on campus doing everything from sight readings of student composers’ works to performing at House dinners and giving demonstrations in music theory lectures. “We’re really available for what people want to use us for,” Sirota says...