Jennifer Strum calls the viola the “middle child of the string instruments.” Through a mixture of talk and performance, she offers a compe
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Read moreJosé Bowen, Dean of the Meadows School at SMU, has taught at Stanford and Georgetown, written over 100 scholarly articles, edited the Cambridge Compan
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Read moreIn 2009, composer Ei Wada and four musician friends―Kimitoshi Sato, Takuya Namba, Yu Yoshida and Tadashi Yoshida―had a wacky retro idea: Let’s mix ana
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Read moreJess Nolan performs three original songs she wrote, and discusses the creative writing process she engaged in for each. Jess Nolan, a New Jersey nativ
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