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Issue 12
The Shock of the Old
What’s Old? In classical music, everything and nothing. Steve Reich…
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Issue 11
Andrew Norman: Pinball Wizard
As I write this, I am sitting in a grade-school…
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Issue 1
Mahler Tall, Grande, Venti
Maybe you’ve experienced this: you offer your friend a bracing…
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Issue 13
Flutes
It’s not that complicated. Lauren Bacall said it best, in…
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Issue 14
Box Sets: Threat or Menace?
I hate it when my most cherished assumptions take a…
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Issue 15
The Fine Print
They used to be called liner notes. Nowadays, since there’s…
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Issue 16
Organizers and Decorators
Isaiah Berlin gave us foxes and hedgehogs. Classical Greece offered…
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Issue 17
More Flutes
A few weeks ago we stuck one toe in the…
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Issue 18
Liszt, Show Business, and Art
Franz Liszt (1811–86) practically invented the showbiz end of classical…
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Issue 19
Three New Choral Passions
Steinberg: Passion Week There once were two young Russian composers,…
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Issue 20
Bad Manners
We were just sitting there, listening to music. My friend…
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Issue 21
Starter Kit
This column began as a Gift Guide kind of thing.…
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Issue 22
Berlioz for Christmas
And Liszt for the New Year! Here we go. Hector…
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Issue 23
Rest of the Best, 2016
As I write this, the Old Year is drawing to…
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Issue 24
Rhythm
Boulez called it duration. By that he meant the whole…
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Issue 25
Melody
Onward and upward with our New Year’s survey of musical…
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Issue 26
Style, Part 1
Okay, we’ve done some work with Rhythm and Melody. Time…
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Issue 27
Style, With Sprinkles
Dear Friends, Congratulations! Copper’s readers, writers, faithful Editor, and visionary…
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Issue 28
Five Uneasy Pieces
It is not pretty, any of it. But its maker,…
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Issue 29
Bridges and Boundaries
Can we put Arnold S. on hold for a bit?…
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Issue 30
Schoenberg After Pierrot
I haven’t said much so far about Arnold Schoenberg’s craft,…
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Issue 31
American Symphonies
Writer Philipp Meyer said something worth repeating a couple of…
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Issue 32
Exiles
Last time our subject was Americans, and a varied lot…
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Issue 33
Classical Concept Albums
They’re baack. Concept albums, that is, those packages that attempt—with…
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Issue 35
Getting to Know György
György Kurtág (b. 1926) is old. Really old. If his…
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Issue 36
Guitar Madness
Ah, but none dare call it madness. We’re speaking of…
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Issue 37
Fireworks and Fizz Water
Hey there, classical fans. Let’s talk shallow pleasures! Excuse me?…
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Issue 38
Pledge(s) of Allegiance
I’ve been reviewing classical records for, like, ever. In the…
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Issue 47
Dry vs. Juicy
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Well, it’s…
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Issue 48
Oboe Quartets
What does an oboe sound like? If you fancy yourself…
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Issue 49
Special Effects
It’s holiday season as I write this, and I can’t…
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Issue 50
Voices
Whenever people talk seriously about recorded music, sooner or…
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Issue 51
Searching For Big
I’ve been listening to, or watching, a lot of new…
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Issue 52
Awards Season!
Once every year, a year passes! Pundits, critics, observers far…
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Issue 53
Daughters, Part 1
Choose your parents carefully. That’s probably the best advice…
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Issue 54
Violin + Orchestra, Part 1
Our story begins with Beethoven. (What else is new?) His…
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Issue 55
Daughters, Part 2
Talk about in medias res. In “Daughters, Part 1” we…
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Issue 56
Violin+Orchestra, Part 2
So many concertos, so little time. When I decided…
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Issue 57
So Far, So Good
That’s a punch line! It belongs to the joke about…
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Issue 58
There’s a Record Store in Newnan
Newnan, Georgia, is the little town I live in, just…
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Issue 59
Why Messiaen (Still) Matters
This is not a Messiaen Year. It would be the…
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Issue 60
Letter from London
New York, May 22. I’ve had some of my favorite…
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Issue 61
Our Annual Summer Edition
Sweet summer! Calendar-wise, it’s not quite here, but musically it’s…
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Issue 62
Part Deux
[Or: Another Mess O’ Messiaen—-Ed.] This column usually follows a…
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Issue 63
The Ondine All-Stars
For the classical record industry, it’s gotten hard to tell…
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Issue 64
Winds From the North
Oh Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775–1838), where have you been all…
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Issue 65
Bert van der Wolf
[Bert van der Wolf is a distinguished Netherlands-based engineer/producer with…
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Issue 66
In the Matter of M. Weinberg
He escaped, and not just once. The outward circumstances of…
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Issue 67
Steve Jobs, the Opera. Really.
Mason Bates wrote the music, Mark Campbell the libretto. They…
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Issue 68
Snobs and Slobs
Here’s a (lightly edited) exchange that took place right after…
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Issue 69
Why Do You Think They Call it Classical?
Larry: Greetings, music lovers. Today we have a question or…
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Issue 70
Hearing Bach
Among the most-played and -recorded of J. S. Bach’s instrumental…
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Issue 71
More Mostly Quiet Music
Have we today forgotten how to speak softly and with…
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Issue 72
Putting Down Roots
I’ve just seen a documentary about a food writer. It…
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Issue 73
Collaborators
Nearly all the great creative musicians were good collaborators. It…
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Issue 74
Stocking Stuffers 2018
It’s that time of year again; maybe you’re still in…
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Issue 75
Telling the Story
Every picture tells a story. That’s utterly true, regardless of…
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Issue 76
Telling the (Vocal) Story
In TMT #75 we talked about narrative in instrumental music.…
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Issue 77
Stay Warm
It’s cold, it’s gray, it’s wet. Time for comfort food:…
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Issue 78
Stay Hot!
Last week I finally signed up for a streaming service.…
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Issue 79
Purcell’s
King Arthur
Merlin waves his Wand; the Scene changes, and discovers the…
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Issue 80
How I Became an Audiophile
My earliest memories of listening to recorded music go back…
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Issue 81
Violin Plus One
Or two, or six. There’s no end to what you…
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Issue 82
Eine kleine zuviele Nachtmusik
This is about Mahler and his Seventh Symphony. Which means,…
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Issue 83
Pan and Perséphone
Today we begin with Mahler and his Third Symphony. Then…
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Issue 84
Prokofiev Piano Concertos
What I’m writing about this week: Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) and…
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Issue 91
Hall Sounds
Late this May I fulfilled a longstanding wish—to attend Choral…
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Issue 92
“Who the hell is Allan Pettersson?”
Not my words. Just the title of a 1974…
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Issue 93
Standard Time
It may seem like I seldom devote space here to…
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Issue 94
Copycats
Today we’re talking about musical imitation and modeling. Also ripoffs,…
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Issue 95
Ear Candy
Of the four strictly definable parameters of any musical sound—pitch,…
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Issue 96
Maurice Duruflé
Maybe you’ve heard about FOMO—Fear of Missing Out. It’s a…
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Issue 97
Doin’ It
My friend Dale Cockrell has written a remarkable book, Everybody’s…
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Issue 98
Russian Composers: Rachmaninov, Medtner and Prokofiev
They were contemporaries. Sergey Rachmaninov (1873–1943) was born seven years…
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Issue 99
Haydn and the Theatre
Today we most often encounter Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) as the…
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Issue 100
Rarities and Remembrances
This TMT will appear in Copper #100 on December 16,…
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Issue 101
Beethoven Plus One: Songs
2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig…
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Issue 102
Steve Waksman, Rock Musicologist
(Author’s note: Last November at a meeting of the American…
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Issue 103
Steve Waksman, Rock Musicologist: Part Two
(Author’s note: In our interview with Steve Waksman in TMT…
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Issue 104
Beethoven Begins
When did Beethoven become Beethoven? That is, when did he…
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Issue 105
Joshua Redman’s Sun on Sand
We’re taking a break from Beethoven Plus One in order…
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Issue 106
Beethoven (and Other) Landscapes
I’m pretty sure I discovered Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony…
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Issue 107
A New American Oratorio
It’s been a while since we featured any oratorios in…
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Issue 108
Opera and Immersive Sound
This is the first of two articles I’ve planned on…
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Issue 109
Immersive Sound Part Two
When I started planning this column, the task seemed simple:…
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Issue 110
Multichannel Hall of Fame Mk I
Recently, I’ve had more time to poke around my “record…
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Issue 111
Multichannel Hall of Fame Mk II
(Last time we offered overviews of several recording labels that…
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Issue 112
Routine, Ritual and Wabi-Sabi
In the past few weeks, I’ve rediscovered something: routines can…
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Issue 113
Four Figaros
In the last six weeks, I’ve watched Mozart’s opera Le…
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Issue 114
Why Collect?
Part 1: Adventures in Time Travel Last week I unboxed…
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Issue 115
Mozart’s Tito and Idomeneo
Earlier this month I watched the Met’s free streaming presentation…
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Issue 116
Comfort and Adventure
Good: If I ever start making playlists again, or decide…
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Issue 117
Beethoven and . . . Britten?
Remember Beethoven? Late in 2019 the classical-music world set out…
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Issue 118
Symphonies and Social Movements
Even when artists write manifestos, they are (hopefully) aware that…
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Issue 122
Two Violas and a Cello
Dear Reader, Hi there! Yes, I’m back from a self-imposed…
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Issue 123
Winners
For weeks now I’ve been planning a column on the…
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Issue 124
Bel Canto, Part 1
Recently I’ve been watching a lot of Dark, now streaming…
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Issue 125
Holiday Music, Naughty & Nice
First, the Nice part: One of my earliest memories…
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Issue 126
Rossini (Bel Canto Part 2)
Here’s a question that should be a softball: who was…
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Issue 127
Award Season
Christmas came early last month! In the space of ten…
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Issue 128
When You Wish
Dear readers: as I write this, Christmas is over, the…
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Issue 129
Serenades
Serenade (Fr. sérénade; Ger. Serenade, Ständchen; It. serenada, serenata). A…
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Issue 131
Passions
Last month I made a single New Year’s resolution: to…
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Issue 133
Bach’s Saint John Passion
High on my list of all-time favorite Bach arias is…
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