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Voices In Time

1841 | Boston

Words Do Not Suffice

Margaret Fuller on the “all-enfolding language” of music.More

Voices In Time

1711 | London

House Rules

Sparrows take over the opera.More

Voices In Time

1913 | Milan

Machine Music

Noise becomes art.More

Voices In Time

1976 | New York City

He’s So Fined

George Harrison v. The Chiffons.More

Voices In Time

c. 100 | Rome

Music Lesson

The wisdom of the Greeks.More

Voices In Time

1901 | Paris

Hold the Applause

Claude Debussy, dilettante hater.More

Voices In Time

2017 | New York City

Jonathan Biss Says the Unsayable

The transfiguring language of music.More

Voices In Time

1903 | Atlanta

Unforgettable

W.E.B. Du Bois on the beauty of sorrow songs.More

Voices In Time

1670 | Paris

The Old Song and Dance

The usefulness of music and dance.More

Voices In Time

c. 100 | Athens

Blowin’ in the Wind

Mastering the flute, for fame and glory.More

Voices In Time

1598 | Messina

Hey Nonny Nonny

A Shakespearean ditty.More

Voices In Time

1778 | Williamsburg, VA

Getting the Band Together

Thomas Jefferson tries to improve American music.More

Voices In Time

2017 | Germany

Master Class

The scale of a new form emerges.More

Voices In Time

1894 | London

The Sovereign Piano

“Then to the piano, and pound away.”More

Voices In Time

c. 1850 | Kolotovka

Battle of the Bands

Ivan Turgenev in the village tavern.More

Voices In Time

1818 | Dresden

The Thing Itself

The independence of music.More

Voices In Time

c. 1715 | London

Tin Ear

Pope versus Handel.More

Voices In Time

1718 | Constantinople

Turn, Turn, Turn

The devotions of the dervishes. More

Voices In Time

c. 347 BC | Crete

The Sound of Reason

Plato speaks on the laws of music.More

Voices In Time

1815 | Bath

Command Performance

Jane Austen introduces a virtuoso.More

Voices In Time

c. 1825 | Maryland

Prayer for Deliverance

Frederick Douglass interprets slaves singing.More

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