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Breakdance flow matches classical music perfectly

Breakdancing to classical music creates a striking fusion of street dance energy and elegant orchestral sound. The video ...
Seattle Times

Bach’s lost ‘St. Mark Passion’ is imagined anew — with a dramatic twist

Sacred music lay at the heart of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative life. His vast output includes hundreds of choral works written for the principal churches in Leipzig, Germany, where he oversaw ...
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How Unique Is Breakdance with Classical Beats?

Breakdancing performed to dramatic classical music, blending power moves, footwork, and slow-motion creativity with orchestral sound. This video highlights the contrast between modern dance and ...
The Denver Post

For classical music, a dramatic turn toward the small

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Classical music isn’t going away as some people predict. It’s just getting smaller, friendlier, noisier and a lot cheaper. The evidence is growing that ...
The Arts Desk

Prom 50: Samson, Academy of Ancient Music review - a gradual build in musical and dramatic intensity

In an evening that built in both dramatic and musical intensity, Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music took on the challenges of Handel’s epic about the Old Testament’s most ...
Seattle Times

Sequim-based musician Jennifer Thomas made the Billboard charts with help from a burning piano and dramatic YouTube videos

People are used to rock stars destroying musical instruments, but they don’t expect it from classical pianists. So it’s not surprising that Sequim-based composer/pianist/violinist Jennifer Thomas’ ...
The Guardian

Classical music brings us joy and meaning. In this time of doom and gloom, we need to talk about that

Why do we focus on the bad news stories about cuts and crises in classical music ? Musicians are doing incredible things to engage, support and sustain us; we should tell those stories too When did ...