Category Archives: cutting room floor

Cutting Room Floor: Mozartian Myths

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Nov 18 2008
 by Sam Bergman

One of the things we’re going to be getting into briefly in this week’s concerts is the wealth of misinformation that’s been floating around about our featured composer ever since a movie called Amadeus came out back in 1984. I … Continue reading →

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Cutting room floor: The Other Mozart

Posted on
Nov 16 2008
 by Sarah

It’s been a busy couple of days of script-polishing; writing our “Inside the Classics” shows is a multi-month process that begins with an initial brainstorming meeting, goes on to choosing musical examples, and proceeds with drafting, redrafting and redrafting again. … Continue reading →

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Cutting Room Floor: From The Minds of Babes

Posted on
Nov 15 2008
 by Sam Bergman

As we draw within a few days of our first Inside the Classics concerts of the season, Sarah and I are in our usual mode of painstakingly cutting material from the show that we desperately want to get to, but … Continue reading →

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Cutting Room Floor: Validation & Legacy

Posted on
Apr 23 2008
 by Sam Bergman

Some musical works that we think of as masterpieces today were given a decidedly rocky reception on their first performance. (As we demonstrated in dramatic fashion at our January Inside the Classics concerts, Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto was one such piece.) … Continue reading →

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Cutting Room Floor: Behind Every Great Composer…

Posted on
Apr 21 2008
 by Sam Bergman

The music world is full of behind-the-scenes figures without whom none of us on stage would have a prayer of making a living at what we do. These devoted music fans contribute the money that keeps us going, and some … Continue reading →

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Cutting Room Floor: This Is A Dance, Isn’t It?

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Apr 17 2008
 by Sam Bergman

As I mentioned in a previous post, finding enough material to fill the first halves of our Inside the Classics concerts is never a problem – the challenge comes in deciding what will have to be left out due to … Continue reading →

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