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Listening to Baroque Music: Why we’re still recovering from recordings made in the 1950s

by Barry Lenson | Nov 23, 2013 | Uncategorized

The 1950s were tumultuous years.  Americans discovered psychotherapy and having a nervous breakdown was fashionable. Cars grew exuberant tailfins. Sputnik orbited visibly overhead. Everybody was taking essentially pointless IQ tests. The Cold War was on and...

That Unresolved Feeling: The Tristan Chord and Beyond

by Barry Lenson | Nov 22, 2013 | Uncategorized

Most young people, at some point in their education about music, learn about the harmonic trick of Tristan. What a discovery! They’ll look at you and discourse about how Wagner refused to resolve to the tonic until the very end of the opera, about how he used that...
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