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My Grandfather’s House: Granados’ Danza Oriental

by William Kunhardt, Principal Conductor | May 22, 2017 | Uncategorized

Gap-toothed, the piano waited in a corner For fingers to give it voice – a hopeful yellowing smile. As the bats hung beneath their vines, The tarantulas dreamed of cool, starry nights. It’s amazing how in South and Latin America, a family’s history becomes myth...

Genes and Finns: Sibelius 5th Symphony

by William Kunhardt, Principal Conductor | May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized

If everyone alive today traced their ancestry back through their mothers, and their mothers, and their mothers before them, we would all eventually converge. Shrouded in the mists of time and gene pools, we would discover a woman who everyone walking the planet today...

Kensho. Enlightenment. Transfigured Night.

by William Kunhardt, Principal Conductor | May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized

In Japan, the Buddhist monks tell of a mythical vision. A flash of enlightenment that can befall any man, woman or child. Kensho. For a split second, our true nature is laid bare. The unending stream of energy which knows only the eternal now, the stream of which we...

Brahms 4: Namibia and nursery rhymes

by William Kunhardt, Principal Conductor | May 4, 2017 | Uncategorized

Deep in the deserts of Namibia, the San Bushmen guard a virtually untouched, millennia-old culture. Learning music lies at the heart of that culture. But not ‘learning music’ as you and I know it. There’s no mention of wrong tempo, or better interpretation or...

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