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Gothic Novels
Haunted houses, dungeons, and demonic villains: why did a craze for gothic novels begin in the late 18th century and persist until the present?
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The Maestro Remembers: John DeMain–The Wisconsin Years
In a previous interview produced by PBS Wisconsin, longtime Madison Symphony conductor John DeMain traced his musical development from his Ohio childhood to his experiences conducting George Gershwin’s Porgy and […]
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“Composering”
Meet Bill Banfield, Black music activist and acclaimed composer of jazz, symphonies, operas, songs, and chamber works.
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A 17th Century Christmas
Dietrich Buxtehude, Heinrich Schutz, Heinrich Schmelzer, Johann Herman Schein…they’re not exactly household names today. But in the years before Johann Sebastian Bach, they composed music for the Christmas season—beautiful music that you may hear at Christmas time without knowing who wrote it.
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Conversation Analysis
A study of conversation takes us into the whole range of human interactions–criticizing, storytelling, apologizing, and joking, among many others that reveal the relationship between the participants in a conversation.
