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			<title>Piano quintet thread for pinheads only</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>Classical music has been written for single instruments and for huge orchestras with 100s of instruments.  But what size ensemble give a composer the biggest range of musical effects with the smallest number of musical instruments?



I’m gonna say piano quintet—2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello and 1 piano.  An all-string ensemble has to work at not being homogeneously bowed-stringy, but with a piano you can add all kinds of other effects--including percussion effects.   



Tchaikowsky’s piano  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:06:43 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Rihanna in the style of Paderewski</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:42:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Wot...The deal with Paderewski?</title>
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			<dc:creator>Woo!</dc:creator>
			<description>Any of you dudes or dudettes who are into Classical dig the Paderewski? What ya think of his work?</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:24:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>&amp;quot;Blue Monday&amp;quot; by Gershwin</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>Gershwin wrote &quot;Porgy and Bess&quot; in 1935 and &quot;Rhapsody in Blues&quot; in 1924, but way back in 1922 he wrote a one-act opera for the Broadway stage.



The whole thing lasts less than 20 minutes, at the end of which the woman shoots her man for doing her wrong, and then finds out that he ain't done her wrong at all, but she was tricked into thinking he had.



It's sort of like &quot;Frankie and Johnny&quot; combined with &quot;Otello.&quot;



I was looking to see if there  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:04:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Henry Mancini OST's</title>
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			<dc:creator>Frances Jones</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[anyone in here like his soundtracks ? he made so many 
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and The Pink Panther Theme! Moon River , Peter Gun 
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Two For The Road ( i love this movie ) 
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Charade]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:41:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The Goldenberg variations</title>
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			<dc:creator>Le Néant</dc:creator>
			<description>I don't think we've had a thread on this one yet, have we?

 

Anyway, I'm currently listening to Glenn Gould playing Bach's Goldenberg variations on YouTube.

I suppose that they are more or less to classical music what Kind of blue is to jazz - a product that's both high in quality and quite easily accessible for the untrained listener.

 

I must say that I'm really enjoying this and that I will more than likely go out to but this music.

On the videos I'm watching he seems to be playing  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:08:20 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Classical composers stopped writing for plucked strings--why?</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>Why is it that classical composers stopped writing music for plucked strings?



Could it possibly have something to do with what I said about the linkage between high-art music and the role of the social classes during different musical epochs on that other thread?



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			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:09:36 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Schubert ! ! ! ! !</title>
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			<dc:creator>President Eisenhower</dc:creator>
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			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:30:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Must Owns???</title>
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			<dc:creator>Giant González</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[I have very little classical music in my music library, mainly because I always struggle to know what to buy/download.
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What are &quot;Musts&quot; for the collection?]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:15:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>American Showdown</title>
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			<dc:creator>President Eisenhower</dc:creator>
			<description>Who is the greatest American composer of all time, John Philip Sousa or Charles Ives?</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:14:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Il Gattopardo--can playing sloppy be better?</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>This film ends with a big party and lots of dancing.  Nino Rota wrote a bunch of quadrilles, polkas and waltzes for the party.



The director needed a quickie recording of the party music to help him block out the scenes, so Rota hired a pick-up group to sight read the dances, and made a tape.



When the movie was finished, Rota rerecorded it all--but the director rejected the new version.  He said it was too polished.   He said it was supposed to be party music--everyone was supposed to  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The difference between Scott Joplin and Louis Moreau Gottschalk</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>When Gottschalk plays pieces in an habanera rhythm, sometimes it sounds almost like ragtime.  Almost, but not quite, because there is one thing missing.



When Scott Joplin plays ragtime, you can hear the habanera rhythm in the right hand.  But all the while, the left hand plays in a strict march rhythm (oom-pah, oom-pah...).  The march accompaniment against the syncopation in the habanera has the effect of heightening all the contrasts and hi-lighting the syncopated notes.



That's what's  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:16:34 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Controversy over &amp;quot;Jewish music&amp;quot;</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>Ernest Bloch wrote musical works with titles that were ostentatiously Jewish sounding, like Schelomo, Baal Shem, Suite Hébraïque, Avodath Hakodesh, and others.  Critics came at him from various angles.  Some Jewish critics assessed that he didn’t get the Jewish music right--didn’t capture the spirit.  



But some gentile critics had a very different angle.  At least one argued that Bloch’s music could not be Jewish, because Jewish music did not--and could not--exist.  Why not?  Because the  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:48:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Linkage between high-art music and social classes explained</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>Just fooling around here.  It's raw, but you never know, I might be onto something.  It could be a thesis for somebody:



Dark ages (up to about 1350)

-- composers: Catholic clergy 

-- performers: monks

-- patron: Catholic church

-- audience: Catholics  

-- representative music form: The Mass



Renaissance period (1350 to 1550)

-- composers: servant-class professionals and their aristocrat pupils  

-- performers: royal and aristocratic amateurs and their servants

-- patron: same as  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:50:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Dmitri Shostakovich</title>
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			<dc:creator>JBWilkes</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Ever since I first took a gander at the final movement of his 5th symphony I knew i was in for something great. Shostakovich has been steadily moving up my list of favourite composers and cementing my affinity for russian composers. and what a life he lead!
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anyone have any love for the fellow? displeasure perhaps? both (if that could somehow be the case)?]]></description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:39:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Anton Webern</title>
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			<dc:creator>President Eisenhower</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Way better than Schoenberg, don't deny it.
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 <img src="http://illiweb.com/fa/i/smiles/icon_eek.gif" alt="Shocked" longdesc="5" />]]></description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:04:45 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/anton-webern-t1280.htm#16807</comments>
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			<title>Williams</title>
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			<dc:creator>President Eisenhower</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:36:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Amadeus - Peter Shaffer</title>
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			<dc:creator>Giant González</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[I've never seen the play, although I have read it.  I think it's excellent, I also was fond of the film too.
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What do you guys think of it?  What the hell does Tom Hulce do these days?!  His american accent was incredibly annoying!]]></description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:05:53 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/amadeus-peter-shaffer-t763.htm#8972</comments>
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			<title>The Third Man -- Anton Karas</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[A whole soundtrack played by a single Zither--who would have thunk it?
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqVxVT796IE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqVxVT796IE</a>
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One youtube comment says &quot;WHY isn't music this classy and uber cool still made today?&quot;]]></description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:27:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The Harp of New Albion by Terry Riley</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>I've been meaning to get this for a long time, and finally did.



Here we have 10 pieces (112 minutes) for piano in untempered tuning.  In theory, chords sound much more in tune this way, but only in one key, so the music has to stay away from modulations.



I'm enthusiastic about this kind of thing, but I wasn't sure what to expect with Terry Riley at the keyboard (it could have been all one chord   ).  Turns out it's very good.



I would think that with electronic keyboards it should  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Were there many great English composers?</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>John Renbourn once commented that a great deal of wunnerful music comes from England, but under close examination it is often traceable to Ireland or Scotland.



Still, he said, there was a brief period when the greatest classical music in the world was being written by English composers, although this period was brief.



I'm not sure exactly what period Renbourn had in mind--maybe the Elizabethan era, or maybe the restoration.



Without thinking too hard I can immediately think of three  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 23:16:12 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The original New Orleans musician</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>Louis Moreau Gottschalk--He was actually a rock star--but I'll put him here in the classical area.



About his lifestyle, in 1863 he wrote:



"I again began to live according to the customs of those primitive countries, which, if they are not strictly virtuous, are nonetheless terribly attractive. I saw again those beautiful triguenas, with red lips and brown bosoms, ignorant of evil, sinning with frankness, without fearing the bitterness of remorse. The moralists, I well know, condemn  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 11:49:04 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/the-original-new-orleans-musician-t85.htm#1218</comments>
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			<title>Ragtime piano man Scott Joplin tries opera</title>
			<link>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/ragtime-piano-man-scott-joplin-tries-opera-t557.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>After having great success with a number of piano rags, Scott Joplin decided to try something on a grander scale, so he wrote the opera &quot;Treemonisha,&quot; which was published in 1911.



The story is very preachy--the message is that, to escape from poverty and superstition, black people must stop buying mojos, because they don't work anyway, and get a good education instead.  It comes across as very simplistic nowadays, but there is some very good music in it.



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			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:04:16 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Kickapoo Indian medicine and the New World Symphony</title>
			<link>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/kickapoo-indian-medicine-and-the-new-world-symphony-t278.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>So, we were talking about "The Song of Hiawatha" over in the photos area, and that started me thinking about Antonin Dvorak's Hiawatha opera project--he thought the story of the noble Indian brave Hiawatha and the beautiful Indian maiden Minnehaha would be a good subject for an opera.



Dvorak was director of a music conservatory in New York city in the early 1890s, but by 1893 he wanted out of New York, so he went to Spillville Iowa, population 350--all Bohemians except for 1 German and 1  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:36:21 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/kickapoo-indian-medicine-and-the-new-world-symphony-t278.htm#3420</comments>
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			<title>Richard Strauss</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>he was born in 1864, and by 1910 he had written Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel, So Sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, A Hero's Life, Salome, Electra, and Der Rosenkavalier. 



The critics Milton Cross and David Ewen said that had he died in 1910, his stature as a composer would have been just the same as it is because all of his major works had been completed, and that by the time he died in 1949 his music showed that artistically he was &quot;returning to the womb.&quot;



Those  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:28:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Leos Janacek improved with age</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>Most composers do their crazy stuff when they're young.  Janacek was conventional when he was young, but turned original when he was old.  Some say it was on account of some girl he got mixed up with.







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			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 03:06:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Krystian Zimerman</title>
			<link>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/krystian-zimerman-t1081.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Giant González</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Man, this guy seriously has it in for Americans doesn't he?   <img src="http://illiweb.com/fa/i/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" longdesc="7" /> 
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			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:45:50 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/krystian-zimerman-t1081.htm#12980</comments>
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			<title>Can classical musicians in really hot pants play Japanese punk baroque?</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
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			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:52:52 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/can-classical-musicians-in-really-hot-pants-play-japanese-punk-baroque-t1019.htm#11949</comments>
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			<title>Can classical musicians play jazz?</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[This won't settle the question:
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			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:28:34 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The composer who claimed to be God - or is it subject to interpretation?</title>
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			<dc:creator>TinyMontgomery</dc:creator>
			<description>As you have probably guessed, I am talking about Alexander Scriabin, one of the few composers who took the whole romantic concept of eternity and fragmentariness and lead it right &quot;into the mystic&quot; (not completely unlike the directions later explored by Jazz spiritualists like Albert Ayler or Van Morrison's pre-New Age experiments). His music sometimes borders on kitsch but on the other hand sometimes touches unpreceded territory that sounds familiar yet incomprehensible. 



His  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:14:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Aaron Copland</title>
			<link>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/aaron-copland-t817.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Giant González</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[What do ya think?
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			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:18:33 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/aaron-copland-t817.htm#9495</comments>
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			<title>Which classical composers do you listen to?</title>
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			<dc:creator>TinyMontgomery</dc:creator>
			<description>As everybody is only posting about film music composers here, I shall revive the &quot;Classical&quot; in the section title! To know whom we should discuss I'd like to know whose compositions you listen to!</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 17:20:05 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/which-classical-composers-do-you-listen-to-t105.htm#1512</comments>
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			<title>All vocal Chopin</title>
			<link>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/all-vocal-chopin-t642.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[<embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EIzDSakwQN0" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" quality="high" scale="exactfit"></embed>]]></description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:04:38 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/all-vocal-chopin-t642.htm#7634</comments>
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			<title>Witold Lutoslawski</title>
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			<dc:creator>President Eisenhower</dc:creator>
			<description>Truly the greatest of the aleatoric composers.</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:29:52 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/witold-lutoslawski-t569.htm#7120</comments>
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			<title>Favourite Soundtracks</title>
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			<dc:creator>Giant González</dc:creator>
			<description>Well?</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 10:55:19 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/favourite-soundtracks-t217.htm#2673</comments>
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			<title>Portuguese classical composers</title>
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			<dc:creator>pinhedz</dc:creator>
			<description>Since this site has a bit of Portuguese flavor, which is one of it's charms, I was trying to think if I could name any Portuguese classical composers, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.  I'm sure there must be Portuguese composers, because without Portugal there would be no Brazilian music and no composers like Heitor Villa-Lobos.



I googled up a few, but there seem to be more Portuguese composers from the 15th-17th centuries then romantic or contemporary composers.  I'm particularly  ...</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:54:57 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/portuguese-classical-composers-t279.htm#3438</comments>
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			<title>Classical Banjo</title>
			<link>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/classical-banjo-t316.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Stan54</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/classical-banjo-t316.htm#3926</comments>
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			<title>Ennio Morricone</title>
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			<dc:creator>Giant González</dc:creator>
			<description>Imagine being a director and this guys signs on!   How happy would you be?  You could make a crappy film, and it would still be good thanks the the amazing music making everything profound!</description>
			<category>Classical / Instrumental / OST's</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 17:13:04 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/classical-instrumental-ost-s-f13/ennio-morricone-t104.htm#1507</comments>
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