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Roger Voisin was also very active as an editor for International Music Company, providing over 45 editions for the company. VOISIN EDITIONS: Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671-1707), Sonata No. 1 for Two Trumpets (International Music Company) Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1665-1707), Sonata No. 2 for Two Trumpets (International Music Company) Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1665-1707), Sonata No. 3 for Two Trumpets (International Music Company) Alexander Arutiunian (b. 1920), Concerto for Trump ...

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Roger Voisin was with the Boston Symphony at the inception of the Tanglewood Music Center in 1940, and continues to serve on the faculty there, coaching the orchestral winds and teaching solfège to the conducting class. He became chair of the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) brass and percussion department in 1950 and was the primary trumpet teacher at NEC for nearly 30 years. In 1975 he became a full professor at Boston University, teaching trumpet and chairing the wind, percussion and harp department until his retirement in 1999. I ...

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In 1741, Pope wrote a fourth book of the Dunciad and had it published the next year as a stand-alone text. He also began revising the whole poem to create a new, integrated, and darker version of the text. The four-book Dunciad appeared in 1743 as a new work. Most of the critical and pseudo-critical apparatus was repeated from the Dunciad Variorum of 1738, but there was a new "Advertisement to the Reader" by Bishop Warburton and one new substantial piece: a schematic of anti-heroes, written by Pope in his own voice, enti ...

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"In most of my music, theater pieces and films, I try to express a sense of timelessness; of time as a recurring cycle." --from the liner notes of the album Book of Days, ECM New Series (1990) "I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema." --from Deborah Jowitt (ed.), Meredith Monk (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) "Björk did one of my songs, Gotham Lullaby. I'd heard her sing that (...) on an MP3 file one of my [voice] students gave me, and I found it really interesting. Then we met six months ago, and liked each ...

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People often speak of "Stravinsky's music for The Firebird" as if just one work exists; in fact, besides the complete 50-minute ballet score of 1909-10 (written for a very large orchestra including quadruple woodwind and three harps, as well as a piano!), there also exist no fewer than three shorter 'suites', arranged by the composer himself for concert performance. These date from 1911, 1919 and 1945; the 1945 version (at least partly motivated by the need to secure copyright in a USA that did not recognise European agreements) contains the most music. The movem ...

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Lyrical themes on Aquemini include the dangers of technology and pollution, and duality, especially the blurry line between fantastic, unreal personas of musicians and the real-life people behind them. The issue of whether MCs have a responsibility for their lyrical content is closely examined: "(Awareness of the gap between fantasy and reality) lets André and Big Boi speak succinctly to the album's central issue \u2014 namely, what should an MC (and by extension, a man ...

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