July 26, 2026
Tag: Orchestra Postcards
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The Big Five
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Music in America. It’s been said that music is the language of the angels. To many that means – music is the “first language” of the world. Beethoven’s Dah, Dah, Dah, Dum is truly universal and sounds the same regardless of your mother tongue.
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December 30, 2019 2 Comments
Maude Adams (not Maud Adams the Bond Girl, she doesn’t have the “e”) was an astonishingly successful stage actor who burst onto the New York stage in 1896 with J. M. Barrie’s The Little Minister and in 1905 played the title role in Barrie’s Peter Pan. Alphonse Mucha painted her. She toured with her own troupe and retired in 1918 from the effects of the Great Influenza Epidemic.