Our experiences are not only made up of what we have lived through. Sometimes, experience stems from that which we did not do.
I never had the chance to watch Luciano Pavarotti perform live. I regret that bitterly. His immaculate voice was a gift to this world and who knows when, if ever, another one [...]
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I fell in love with classical music when I watched the unforgettable Igudesman and Joo in a small theater in North Carolina on a Thursday night this summer. Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art – to raise the genius and to mend the heart. [...]
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The Charlotte Symphony at Belk Theater was playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major on October 3rd, 2008. The conductor was the remarkable Andrew Grams and the pianist was the talented Ingrid Fliter. This was not my first symphony. Or my second. My husband’s passion for classical music [...]
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