Nine is the magic number. Or the unlucky one. Or a statistical fluke. Let’s investigate. Classical music has plenty of drama, but few stories are as delightfully spooky as the Curse of the Ninth. The legend goes like this: a composer who writes a ninth symphony is doomed, and they won’t survive to write a […]
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Were I to give you the name John Henry, would images of a “steel-drivin’ man”, beating spikes into the ground, pushing against all odds to prove man over machine come to mind? Furthermore, would a pulsing hammer reverberate through your thoughts, keeping steady tempo along the lines of singing men at work, on top of
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When I find myself lost in the endless sea of sounds, being lifted and tossed about in the different practices, participation, and performance of music, my mind turns to what I love about this art. While it does accompany life, feeding an extra plateful of beauty into the world and can be paired with any
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