There are many great ways to listen to Classical MPR, and one of them is to stream it in iTunes. In case you have never done this, here is a tutorial.


How to add the Classical MPR Streams to iTunes

An interesting convergence of tech and music. Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have built a set of scanners which can convert the printed score into computer generated sound in real time. Now, when will this allow me to scan a score into Finale without it crashing on me…


Real-time music scanning

A great video tracing the development of music, notation, and recording. My favorite line: “The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin’ vibrations.”


Michael Tilson Thomas on Music and Emotion through Time

Containing 3746 videos from 73 countries, Eric Whitacre has just released the video of Virtual Choir 3, “Water Night.”


Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 3 Released

Howard Shore has reworked the music from the Lord of the Rings movies into a two hour, six movement symphony. All of the musical material has been retained; however much of the material has been reworked or reorchestrated to create a standalone piece.


Lord of the Rings Symphony

Violins strings have been made from a myriad of materials from gut to steel, however a Japanese researcher has created violin strings made out of thousands of strands of spider silk.


Violin strings made out of Spider Silk?

In this TED (Technology, Education, Design) Talk, Benjamin Zander discusses leadership, passion and classical music. “I made up my mind… that classical music is for everyone… The music profession says that 3% of people like classical music. If we could only move it to 4%, our problems would be over… I say, how would you […]


Benjamin Zander on music and passion

Mozart’s Piano Sonata K. 545 is a well known and light-hearted piece, but have you ever analyzed it? In common practice period music, most music can be analyzed within the key by using chord numbers, indicated with Roman numerals. This piece is in C Major, so the I (1) chord — C E G — […]


Mozart's Piano Sonata K. 545 Analysed — in a fun way

Virtual Choir is a project where singers from around the world can submit videos of themselves singing their part to a video of Eric Whitacre conducting.


Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 3

Justin Davidson — New York Magazine classical music and architecture critic — gets the opportunity to see what a conductor actually does by doing it himself. In this article, Justin Davidson recounts his experience working with a Juilliard student orchestra under the tutelage of Alan Gilbert, the music director of the New York Philharmonic.


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