A guide to fireworks in the Twin Cities, with an interactive map.


Fourth of July 2015: Where to find fireworks in the Twin Cities

Austin Gerth interviews two of the musicians behind 'Sleep Softly,' a new book/CD lullaby collection. They tell him what rhythms make for a perfect lullaby, and why some lullabies are surprisingly dark.


'Sleep Softly': New book/CD highlights the magic - and darkness - of lullabies

I'm hard-pressed to think of a more relaxing piece of music than Gabriel Faure's Pavane. The orchestral arrangement, taken at a slow, deliberate but delicate tempo, always puts me in a pleasingly melancholy mood, its gently swooning main melody being perfect for a quiet rainy day or an afternoon free of classes.


Is Faure's "Pavane" the world's favorite piece of relaxing music?

Fargo-Moorhead's BeethovenFest concluded with an unusual but informative (and delicious) performance at a pool hall.


Beerthoven and Brats: Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra took Beethoven to the pool hall

On Feb. 10, a small crowd of locals and students gathered in Concordia College's mostly empty Fjelstad Hall to learn about some of what might be called Beethoven's "deep cuts": works without opus numbers, or "Werke ohne Opuszahl."


Debating tremolo and telling jokes at Fargo-Moorhead's BeethovenFest

As we provide the soundtrack to your Fourth of July weekend, we know that another important part of this weekend's soundtrack will be provided by rapidly heated metal salts detonating in the evening sky. (In other words, fireworks.)


Fourth of July 2014: Where to find fireworks in the Twin Cities

For one night, all night, the sounds of French composer Erik Satie will take up residence at Northrop Auditorium.


'Vexations' till dawn: Northern Spark 2014 to feature nine solid hours of Satie

Later this month the Fargo-Moorhead Opera will be performing the first world premieres of its four-and-a-half-decade existence, in collaboration with the NYC-based American Lyric Theatre.


Fargo-Moorhead Opera to stage world premieres inspired by Poe

Fans of forward-thinking classical music in the Moorhead area will be in for something special on January 25 when ETHEL, an acclaimed string quartet based in New York, stops in town to perform with Grammy-winning Native American flautist Robert Mirabal.


Minnesotan violinist Kip Jones talks about ETHEL's collaboration with Robert Mirabal

The Internet and social media offer exciting new opportunities for musicians and artists of all stripes to reach an appreciative audience. Only recently, though, have classical ensembles seem to have started taking full advantage of these tools.


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