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classical-music
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November 18, 2021An Oral History of John Philip Sousa’s Band, the Hardest-Partying Eighty-Piece Marching Band Ever
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May 21, 2020What Your Favorite Requiem Mass Says About You
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December 18, 2019I Am Your Big Mouth Billy Bass, and I Only Sing Schubert’s “Erlkönig” Now
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January 17, 2018What Your Favorite Composer Says About You
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October 10, 2014The Stand-In Cannon Player for Last Week’s Performance of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” Apologizes
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May 27, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Bellows of Discontent: The Art of the Orchestral Excerpt
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May 26, 2010Supplementary Program Notes for Husbands Forced to Attend This Evening’s Performance of Haydn’s Missa Cellensis
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August 18, 2005Sestina: Back to the Ground: Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts
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May 7, 2005Short Essays on Favorite Songs, Inspired by Nick Hornby’s Songbook: Piano Concerto No. 3 by Ludwig Van Beethoven
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January 21, 2003Short Essays on Favorite Songs, Inspired by Nick Hornby’s Songbook: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.”
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