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Tweeting Beethoven a Noteworthy Development

Tech assist enhances classical experience

Jul 30, 09 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a bid to win over multitaskers and technophobes, the National Symphony Orchestra will tweet along with tonight's performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, the Washington Post reports. Audience members with appropriate gadgets can sit in a special section on the lawn at Wolf Trap, in suburban Virginia, and follow... More »

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music • technology • classical music • National Symphony Orchestra • audiences • promotion • Twitter • Beethoven • tweet

Rostropovich Dead at 80

Conductor, cellist and champion of artistic freedom dies in his native Russia

Apr 27, 07 2:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cellist, conductor, and one-time Soviet gadfly Mstislav Rostropovich, who used to instruct his orchestras to "play as if you are being tickled in the sides," died today in Moscow. Rostropovich, whose 17-year-run as the head of the National Symphony Orchestra tranformed it from a middling ensemble to one... More »

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music • Mstislav Rostropovich • classical music • obituary • USSR • National Symphony Orchestra • cello • composer

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