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    An Oral History of John Philip Sousa’s Band, the Hardest-Partying Eighty-Piece Marching Band Ever
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  • May 21, 2020
    What Your Favorite Requiem Mass Says About You
    by James Bennett, II
  • December 18, 2019
    I Am Your Big Mouth Billy Bass, and I Only Sing Schubert’s “Erlkönig” Now
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  • January 17, 2018
    What Your Favorite Composer Says About You
    by Alan Katz
  • October 10, 2014
    The Stand-In Cannon Player for Last Week’s Performance of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” Apologizes
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  • May 27, 2014
    I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Bellows of Discontent: The Art of the Orchestral Excerpt
    by Elizabeth Eshelman
  • May 26, 2010
    Supplementary Program Notes for Husbands Forced to Attend This Evening’s Performance of Haydn’s Missa Cellensis
    by Howard Zaharoff
  • August 18, 2005
    Sestina: Back to the Ground: Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts
    by Stuart Greenhouse
  • May 7, 2005
    Short Essays on Favorite Songs, Inspired by Nick Hornby’s Songbook: Piano Concerto No. 3 by Ludwig Van Beethoven
    by David Anderson
  • January 21, 2003
    Short Essays on Favorite Songs, Inspired by Nick Hornby’s Songbook: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.”
    by Whitney Pastorek
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