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		<title>New opera in Cardiff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at Cardiff&#8217;s  Gate Arts Centre last Tuesday for an evening of short operas presented by a group of students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. The main work was an adaptation of Oscar Wilde&#8217;s tale The Nightiingale And The Rose with music by Tom Floyd to a libretto by David [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carlgrainger.co.uk/?p=191</link>
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		<title>How to be a conductor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten golden rules from Richard Strauss (1920) Remember that you should make music not to amuse yourself but to delight the audience. Only the audience should get warm &#8211; you should not perspire when conducting. Conduct Salome and Elektra as if they were fairy-tale scherzos by Mendelssohn Never look encouragingly at the brass, except for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The death of good singing &#8211; or just the death of good TV?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when great singers made music that carved a pathway through our senses to touch the heart.  Most were not well known outside the world of classical music lovers &#8211; only occasionally did a Caruso raise his head above the parapet to become a household name. Then along came the three tenors and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carlgrainger.co.uk/?p=172</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent show of Eddo Stern's work at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carlgrainger.co.uk/?p=169</link>
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		<title>Summer Fruit Salad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A refreshing alternative to summer pudding]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carlgrainger.co.uk/?p=151</link>
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		<title>A truly British deception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once regarded as one of the world's great pianists Joyce Hatto's recordings have now been revealed as fakes.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carlgrainger.co.uk/?p=144</link>
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		<title>The classical music weapon backfires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always been concerned at attempts to use classical music as a weapon against young people but, according to this story from The Daily Record, it seems I might have worried too much&#8230;. Shop bosses in Scotland tried to use classical music to drive off a gang of teenagers hanging around outside their door &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carlgrainger.co.uk/?p=135</link>
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		<title>Appalachian Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have known Copland&#8217;s Appalachian Spring for nearly forty years but it was only recently that I discovered it was originally scored for a chamber ensemble of thirteen instruments, the largest orchestra that could be accommodated in the pit of the theatre at the Library of Congress where it was first performed. Appalachian Spring was created for choreographer and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carlgrainger.co.uk/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Darwin at 200</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A touching cultural quote from a great scientific mind.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carlgrainger.co.uk/?p=92</link>
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		<title>Farewell to Nicholas Maw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Maw dies at age 73.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carlgrainger.co.uk/?p=86</link>
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