SCIARRINO Morte di Borromini | T.Carraro, O.T.La Scala, R.Muti | video 1...

Salvatore SCIARRINO: "Morte di Borromini", per orchestra con lettore ('a Riccardo Muti' - 1988) *world premiere* Tino Carraro, narrator, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, conductor (PAL 4:3 | live, Teatro alla Scala, Milano, 20 October 1988)

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Acoustics of free-reed instruments

Documents dating back to before 1000 BC describe a wind instrument whose reed vibrates back and forth across the frame that houses it. Nowadays, free-reed instruments inspire both scholarly study and musical innovation. James Cottingham , Acoustic of free-reed instruments, Physics Today, March 2011, Vol.63, pp. 44-48.
A free reed? What is it? More http://www.patmissin.com/history/whatis.html

Rhapsody in Blue

At http://www.archive.org/details/rhapblue11924 there is the original recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.  This record was released soon after the piece was first performed (1924)  and soon replaced by an electrically recorded record.
Gershwin told his first biographer Isaac Goldberg in 1931: "It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, its rattle-ty bang, that is so often so stimulating to a composer – I frequently hear music in the very heart of the noise... And there I suddenly heard, and even saw on paper – the complete construction of the Rhapsody, from beginning to end. No new themes came to me, but I worked on the thematic material already in my mind and tried to conceive the composition as a whole. I heard it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our blues, our metropolitan madness. By the time I reached Boston I had a definite plot of the piece, as distinguished from its actual substance."