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		<title>Wagner, According to His Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 22:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One can&#8217;t judge Wagner&#8217;s opera &#8216;Lohengrin&#8217; after a first hearing, and I certainly don&#8217;t intend hearing it a second time.&#8221; -Gioacchino Rossini “Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” -Edgar Wilson Nye, quoted in Mark Twain&#8217;s autobiography &#8220;[The Prelude to &#8230; <a href="http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/05/22/wagner-according-to-his-critics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianlauritzen.com&#038;blog=25829515&#038;post=748&#038;subd=brianlauritzen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 200th, Richard Wagner</title>
		<link>http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/05/21/happy-200th-richard-wagner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 20:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I write music with an exclamation point!&#8221; -Richard Wagner There&#8217;s no middle ground on Richard Wagner. You either love him or hate him. Correction: there is a kind of middle ground that most people, including me, dwell in. To oversimplify, &#8230; <a href="http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/05/21/happy-200th-richard-wagner/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianlauritzen.com&#038;blog=25829515&#038;post=736&#038;subd=brianlauritzen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pulitzer Partita</title>
		<link>http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/04/16/pulitzer-partita/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, composer Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her a cappella composition Partita for 8 Voices. At age 30, she is the youngest winner in the prize&#8217;s history. The jury described Shaw&#8217;s composition as &#8220;a highly polished and &#8230; <a href="http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/04/16/pulitzer-partita/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianlauritzen.com&#038;blog=25829515&#038;post=718&#038;subd=brianlauritzen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orchestra Musician: It&#8217;s Not a Cush Job</title>
		<link>http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/23/orchestra-musician-its-not-a-cush-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, an article appeared in Bloomberg that was so misinformed, so short-sighted, so petty, so ignorant, and so utterly ridiculous that to let it go unchallenged would be irresponsible. The article came from Manuela Hoelterhoff, the &#8230; <a href="http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/23/orchestra-musician-its-not-a-cush-job/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianlauritzen.com&#038;blog=25829515&#038;post=702&#038;subd=brianlauritzen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Sellars on the Threat of Cultural Impositionalism</title>
		<link>http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/18/peter-sellars-on-the-threat-of-cultural-impositionalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the flight to London last week, Air New Zealand had loaded up a bunch of James Bond movies on the monitors in our seats. An appropriate gesture, I think, to get us in the mood for our final destination. &#8230; <a href="http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/18/peter-sellars-on-the-threat-of-cultural-impositionalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianlauritzen.com&#038;blog=25829515&#038;post=693&#038;subd=brianlauritzen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from London: The Gospel Truth</title>
		<link>http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/17/postcard-from-london-the-gospel-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, at the world premiere of John Adams&#8217; passion-oratorio &#8220;The Gospel According to the Other Mary,&#8221; I wrote an extensive review. At the time, I said I was &#8220;less interested&#8221; in seeing how Peter Sellars would stage the work &#8230; <a href="http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/17/postcard-from-london-the-gospel-truth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianlauritzen.com&#038;blog=25829515&#038;post=685&#038;subd=brianlauritzen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from London: Discover Dudamel</title>
		<link>http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/16/postcard-from-london-discover-dudamel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a moment several months in the making for the 10 traveling musicians from YOLA (Youth Orchestra LA). It&#8217;s why they wrote two essays, gave an interview, and played an audition just for the opportunity to come on this &#8230; <a href="http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/16/postcard-from-london-discover-dudamel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianlauritzen.com&#038;blog=25829515&#038;post=682&#038;subd=brianlauritzen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from London: A Candy Conclave</title>
		<link>http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/15/postcard-from-london-a-candy-conclave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 01:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the music-making here in London, the LA Phil is hosting a symposium about music education. They&#8217;ve put together an orchestra comprised of students from all over Great Britain, plus ten members of the LA Phil&#8217;s own Youth &#8230; <a href="http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/15/postcard-from-london-a-candy-conclave/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianlauritzen.com&#038;blog=25829515&#038;post=680&#038;subd=brianlauritzen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from London: The Music of the Future</title>
		<link>http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/14/postcard-from-london-the-music-of-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On KUSC today, you&#8217;ll hear me mention an ensemble called Future Band. Future Band is a group of a couple dozen musicians, ages 8-14, from all over London. The ensemble has no set instrumentation, the members write their own music, &#8230; <a href="http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/14/postcard-from-london-the-music-of-the-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianlauritzen.com&#038;blog=25829515&#038;post=678&#038;subd=brianlauritzen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arrival in London</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from London! After a long, bumpy flight&#8211;complete with a two-hour line for a manual check-in with handwritten boarding passes (ask me about that later when I&#8217;m not grumpy)&#8211;I, along with 10 YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) musicians, ages 14-16 &#8230; <a href="http://brianlauritzen.com/2013/03/13/arrival-in-london/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianlauritzen.com&#038;blog=25829515&#038;post=676&#038;subd=brianlauritzen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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