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The Echoes of Erebor: Howard Shore and the Musical Memory of Middle-earth
How The Hobbit builds a world through sound, before it becomes legend
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A Symphony of the Fields
Jan 28
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Listening to Vaughan Williams’s English Folk Song Suite
Jan 11
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Where Jazz Begins
Dec 2, 2025
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Listening to Warlock’s Capriol Suite
Jan 14
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The Typewriter in the Orchestra
Dario Marianelli’s musical design for Atonement
Mar 11
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Misnamed and Misunderstood
Revisiting Shostakovich’s so-called “Jazz Suite No. 2”
Feb 24
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The Predator in the Reeds: Dvořák and the Architecture of a Folk Horror
How the master of the "New World" used Czech prosody to score an orchestral nightmare
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Colours of the Regency — Celestial Blue
A study in color, taste, and visual culture in the early nineteenth century
Mar 26
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace
Room 703, Denon Wing — where Hellenistic sculpture becomes wind
Mar 25
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The Manifesto on the Wall: Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii
Room 702, Denon Wing — where Neoclassicism becomes political
Feb 18
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Colours of the Regency — Celestial Blue
A study in color, taste, and visual culture in the early nineteenth century
Mar 26
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Rana
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace
Room 703, Denon Wing — where Hellenistic sculpture becomes wind
Mar 25
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The Typewriter in the Orchestra
Dario Marianelli’s musical design for Atonement
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