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Every Tuesday I offer three (or so) contributions to the web that I found interesting. I hope you, too, find them inspiring. Enjoy!

This week (02/23/2010):

Some Spanish impressions played by ‘Global Fusion’ with the extraordinary Indian violinist Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAXYmp7FDIM&feature=related

‘What is Art?’ asks German painter Karin Ulrike Soika in this article, questioning the contemporary view of ‘artist as an entrepreneur’:
http://www.soika.com/links/text/08e_wasistkunst.htm

Sean Chen plays Elliott Carter’s ‘Caténaires’, a contemporay piece of virtuoso piano music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdPW8oMwjoY&feature=related

Who could be more competent than Mathieu Ricard to answer some questions why meditation is good for you?:
http://tinyurl.com/yzg5ft9

Frederic Rzewski is a wonderful  composer and pianist who may be known to the wider public especially through his 36 variations about ‘The People United Can Never Be Defeated’ of which an excerpt can be heard played by Ursula Oppens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTuv6LfOQrU&feature=related

 

 

 

 

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