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A Month of Beethoven


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By James David Jacobs
In the midst of traditional holiday celebrations, join us for a celebration of the composer who changed everything.
CNE Journal

Thinkers and Doers: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences


By James David Jacobs
"The Academy of Arts and Sciences is yet another example of how the founders anticipated our needs, providing an ongoing repository of wisdom and experience."
CNE Journal

The Renewal and Reflection of Eternal Echoes


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By James David Jacobs
Three legendary musicians come together to explore the full range of emotions and meaning of the Jewish High Holy Days.

CNE Journal

Remembering Gustav Leonhardt


By James David Jacobs
How an unexpected encounter opened up the very human side of a music legend.
Classical Music with James David Jacobs

Welcome To Classical Late Night


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By James David Jacobs
Join me for favorite orchestral and chamber works to off-the-beaten track surprises from our own time and centuries before.
Tonight at 9pm on 99.5 All Classical
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Britten's A War Requiem


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By James David Jacobs
A plea for peace and healing.
Tonight at 10pm on 99.5 All Classical
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Ives's Prophetic Music, Post-9/11


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By James David Jacobs
The American composer captured a moment that eerily foreshadowed reaction to Sept. 11, 2001.
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Sendai, Japan: "Music And Courage"


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The Sendai Philharmonic and conductor Pascal Verrot offer inspiration for rebuilding.
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A New Meaning For "Amateur Hour"


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By James David Jacobs
Winchester's Angela Lee Tien takes the stage at Van Cliburn's International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs.
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Bernard Greenhouse, 1916-2011


By James David Jacobs
A remembrance of a great cellist and a great human being.
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Sendai, Japan: The Orchestra Comes Of Age


By James David Jacobs
The next in a series about the Sendai Philharmonic as it struggles to rebuild after the March disaster.
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Sendai, Japan: Looking Back On The Birth Of An Orchestra


By James David Jacobs
As Japan recovers, our guest blogger takes us back to the formative years of an orchestra that anchors the cultural life of northern Japan.
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Sendai, Japan: Resilience of a Cultural Jewel


By James David Jacobs
A personal voice highlights the central role of the orchestra in the culture of one of Japan's hardest hit cities
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Haydn's "Seven Last Words"


By James David Jacobs
Whether for piano, string quartet, orchestra, or choir, Haydn's Passion Week masterpiece transmits incredible emotional power.
Sunday, April 17 at 9am on 99.5 All Classical
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The Conductor's Art


By James David Jacobs
"... when the combination of great music, great musicians and a great conductor all work in sync, you get something unmatched by any other human activity."
Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Tempest, Shakespeare's Most Musical Play


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By James David Jacobs
How one of Shakespeare's last plays stands as a singular creation and points the way towards new forms of theater.
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Nadia Boulanger


By James David Jacobs
For Women's History Month, an in-depth look at one of the most important musicians of the last century.
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My Favorites: Figaro and the "Diabelli" Variations


By James David Jacobs
Mozart and Beethoven show us the sublime in our everyday human foibles.
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For Valentine's Day, Machaut, a 14th Century Dylan


By James David Jacobs
"He took a tradition of itinerant balladeers and invested the style with intellectual rigor and worldly sophistication while retaining the primal appeal of folk music."
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For Our Greatest President's Birthday


By James David Jacobs
A musical tribute to Abraham Lincoln...
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Celebrating Jussi Bjorling and Leontyne Price


By James David Jacobs
Two immortal singers with extraordinary qualities, musical and otherwise.
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Lou Harrison's "Elegiac" Symphony


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"I will go out on a limb and declare this the most beautiful movement of American symphonic music yet written."
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Two Essential Symphonies


By James David Jacobs
Two composers write for their times and create something eternal.
Sunday, Jan. 23 at 9am on 99.5 All Classical
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The Real "Wellington's Victory"


By James David Jacobs
A listener dispels a myth through her request.
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"...to the memory of a great man"



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Two symphonies embody so much of what we honor in Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A Request for Summer


By James David Jacobs
Samuel Barber on this winter day.
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The Most Ridiculous Gigs in the History of Music, MacDowell, and Janacek


By James David Jacobs
For a couple of years I played cello and recorder on top of a display case in a Nordstrom's in Walnut Creek, California.
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A Birthday of Two Mavericks


By James David Jacobs
Two important composers share a birthday of December 11.
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Requiems, Anniversaries, and Controversies


By James David Jacobs
Sifting the truth to find the music.
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National Adoption Day and the Pledge Drive


By James David Jacobs
Beethoven, the trials of childhood, and classical music.
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Rudolf Barshai, and Bruno Walter, Week Two


By James David Jacobs
Bruno Walter, like most conductors of his generation, was also a composer...
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Paderewski's 150th birthday and Bruno Walter, Week One


By James David Jacobs
Hear music for an unheralded anniversary on Saturday morning, and from a great conductor on Sunday.
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Intuition, Paranoia, and Berlioz


By James David Jacobs
It's Halloween, so it seems appropriate to consider the subject of fear...
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Oct. 23 & 24: Elections, Humanity, and Cartoons


By James David Jacobs
Well, it's election time again. It's not just getting ugly; it already IS ugly...
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Oct. 16 & 17: The Man Who Invented Brunch


By James David Jacobs
It was in the last week of 1947 that violinist Louis Kaufman commandeered Carnegie Hall with a group of other freelance string players...
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Oct. 10: Mahler's Roommate


By James David Jacobs
What ever became of your college roommate?  Here's what happened to Mahler's.

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