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A brand new blog created especially for the #ClassicalCurious ~ Each month a new post takes readers behind the scenes of a well known classical work.

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FrothyCapSteadySlap@TennesseeChris·
SOCIAL EXPERIMENT: If you come across this tweet, reply with the one musician you’d wish had been perfectly healthy and survived to the end of their career. Don’t read the replies before you reply.
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Hello Classical@HelloClassical·
@tommyspianocor1 The squarish shape was common in the 19th century (try Googling “square grand piano” or “box grand piano”). We’re not sure how it evolved, but building a rectangular case would add considerable size to an already-large footprint. There may also be acoustic considerations.
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tommyspianocorner@tommyspianocor1·
@HelloClassical I get where the string length and type come from, but that curve is far very easy to make (from the Steinway and other videos I’ve watched. I still wonder why they didn’t stick with a square box ?
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Hello Classical@HelloClassical·
Hi @tommyspianocor1, you may enjoy this video on how the grand piano got its shape, and what it might look like if space constraints could be ignored - m.youtube.com/watch?v=jzJzlX…
tommyspianocorner@tommyspianocor1

What is it about a grand piano - even a smaller one - that looks so fabulous? I wonder how much styling went into that basic shape? After all it could have simply remained a square box that would have bedn infinitely easier to build.

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Hello Classical@HelloClassical·
“Trombonists may not be the stars of the team, but every once in a while, you need us to hit a big shot!” Read our interview with Weston Sprott, the new Dean of the Prep Division @JuilliardSchool, who spoke to us about the link between sports and music - helloclassical.org/2019/05/01/wes…
The Juilliard School@JuilliardSchool

We are delighted to announce that Weston Sprott has been appointed dean of the Preparatory Division at #Juilliard! Weston has been a faculty member of Pre-College since 2016 and previously taught in MAP; he also is a member of @metopera Orchestra. buff.ly/2LEJW81

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1781Collective@1781Collective·
50 points to the fellow nerds who find this statue in #Berlin amusingly genius
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Hello Classical@HelloClassical·
Nice article by @WQXR about Scott Joplin’s struggle to produce his opera Treemonisha, his resulting depression, its revival in the 70’s, and the need for more innovation in opera programming today.
WQXR Classical@WQXR

"Highlighting artists from the historical margins takes work, and it means inevitable risks. The 1972 production of Treemonisha provides an example of what that effort looks like." What we can learn from the trials of Scott Joplin's forgotten opera 👇 bit.ly/2HnZatR

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