Musicon / Musical education / News / Elementary Schools enjoying classical music
Laurence MacArthur Elementary School at the South Yarmouth enjoys daily classical music. Laurence MacArthur is the first D-Y school to adopt the free, non-directed, listening program the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra offers to elementary schools. Music teacher Norma Kelley, who is also a cellist ::More
Musicon / News / Alicia de Larrocha passes away
Alicia de Larrocha died in September 25 at a hospital in Barcelona. She was 86 years old, in failing health since breaking her hip two years ago. de Larrocha brought an elegant restraint to her interpretations of composers as diverse as Johann Sebastian Bach and Manuel de Falla. She appeared with ::More
Musicon / Mozart / News / Mozart Route – A European Itinerary
Mozart traveled the length and breadth of Europe, performing for kings and queens, popes and cardinals, meeting poets and other great musicians, frittering away his money, not finding work, making enemies and writing wonderful music. Now, some 230 years later, you can follow in his footsteps: ::More
Musicon / News / Rediscovering vinyl
After CDs first hit the U.S. market in 1983, LPs were deemed largely obsolete. Later, consumers’ shift to file-trading and online retail outlets such as iTunes and Amazon.com gutted the storefront music business. Between 2003 and last year, more than 3,000 record stores closed in the U.S., ::More
Musicon / News / Epigonion – An Ancient Greek guitar is reconstructed
Called an epigonion after the 6th century B.C. musician Epigonus of Ambracia, the instrument was somewhat similar to a modern harp. No complete example of an epigonion has survived, yet it is known the instrument had 40 strings of varying lengths and a soundboard, like a guitar. Its strings were ::More
