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San Antonio's Classical Oasis (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Recently TPR's John Clare spent some time with members of the USAF Band of the West at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. (Pictured left is Clare with Tsgt Steve Wilson.)Listen to the news story here. (mp3 file)Now, members of the unit are deployed overseas. Enjoy this performance with Top Flight, the pop music ensemble from the Band of the West:VIMEO video coming shortlyClare also spoke
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San Antonio's Classical Oasis (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The Walden Chamber Players were in town as part of their residency with Trinity University...they sat down with John Clare for an interview. Professor Carl Leafstedt also joined the talk, who coordinated the visit!They also played a selection from their program, Saariaho's I feel a second heart:
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ClassicallyHip (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Baby Stockhausen from John Clare on Vimeo.
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San Antonio's Classical Oasis (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The fast and the furies:SOLI: Webisode 5 from John Clare on Vimeo.
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San Antonio's Classical Oasis (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Classical Spotlight shines on the Olmos Ensemble, Musical Bridges Around the World, UTSA Chamber Singers with John Silantien, Musical Offerings, SOLI Chamber Ensemble and Three Phantoms with the San Antonio Symphony and Ken David Masur! John Clare hosts with music by Khachaturian, Messiaen, Menotti and Andrew Lloyd Webber.Including: Three Phantoms in ConcertOctober 30 & 31, 2009Majestic
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San Antonio's Classical Oasis (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
SOLI: Webisode 4 from John Clare on Vimeo.
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ClassicallyHip (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
I like to keep track of who is visiting here, and when checking today of how folks ClassicallyHip, I laughed out loud when someone in Redditch, UK searched for "John Clare Badger Music." really.Badgers?! we don't need no stinking badgers music!Also alot of searches for last weekend's SA Symphony concert with Alondra de la Parra, the buzz and excitement around doesn't surprise me that folks...
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Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
I wrote about Adam Foulds’ second novel The Quickening Maze a few months ago. But when the book was longlisted for the Booker Prize – which, ahem, I predicted – and I looked back at my post, I saw that I had said very little specific about its qualities. My excuse is that I read it in what might be described as a febrile state of mind, and didn’t write it up until a few weeks...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
"Literary heavyweights AS Byatt and JM Coetzee were today named on this year's longlist for the Booker prize - which also features a first-time writer purporting to be Tarzan's chimpanzee." Other conadidates include "Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's gripping account of Henry VIII's Tudor court told through his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell"; "Adam Foulds' The Quickening Maze, set...
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ClassicallyHip (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
I got to see JoAnn Falletta last weekend in action at the International Festival-Instititute at Round Top. We caught up and did this interview:JoAnn Falletta 'Outside' the Bachs from John Clare on Vimeo.
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