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Deceptive Cadence
10:12 am
Thu August 9, 2012

You Are What You Hear: What Your Favorite Music Says About You

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Why are your musical tastes a reflection of you?
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 2:57 pm

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Deceptive Cadence
10:23 am
Wed August 8, 2012

Is There A Lawyer In The (Opera) House?

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, opera fan.
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Originally published on Wed October 24, 2012 12:35 pm

Opera: the stuff of passion, fury, sorrow and ... disquisitions on jurisprudence?

Maybe, if a panel discussion at the just-finished annual meeting of the American Bar Association is to be believed. Called "Arias of Law: The Rule of Law at Work in Opera and the Supreme Court," the session, which was created and moderated by Craig Martin of Jenner & Block LLP, featured U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Anthony Freud, general director of Chicago's Lyric Opera; and U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr.

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Deceptive Cadence
11:13 am
Tue August 7, 2012

Magdalena Kozena's Labor of 'Love And Longing'

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Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená collaborated with a conductor she knows well, the Berlin Philharmonic's Simon Rattle — who's also her husband.
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Originally published on Tue August 7, 2012 11:18 am

One of the toughest tricks for a singer to pull off is putting a fresh face on each composer in a program. All too often, the Handel starts sounding like the Mozart, which in turn takes on too much of the Verdi and it all becomes indistinguishable.

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