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Simon Preston, Acclaimed Organist and Conductor, Dies at 83
Simon Preston, an organist, conductor and composer who was an instrumentalist of consummate, intelligent virtuosity and a force in the early ...
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Arts
Scrappy and Invaluable, a Unique Music Ensemble Returns
BOSTON — It has been a theme of this troubled time: If the pandemic has ruined your big birthday party, simply celebrate a year (or two) later ...
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Health
Patient in Groundbreaking Heart Transplant Has a Violent Criminal Record
An ailing Maryland man who received a pig’s heart last week in a pioneering transplant procedure has a criminal record stemming from an assault ...
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In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig
A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease has received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a groundbreaking procedure that ...
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Arts
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bach
In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to make our friends fall in love with classical music, piano, opera, cello, Mozart ...
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Arts
She Was an Organist for the Ages
Few musicians have faced a debut more intense than did the organist Jeanne Demessieux. For years before her first concert — one of six she gave ...
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Health
She Died With Long Covid. Should Her Organs Have Been Donated?
Covid-19 ravaged Heidi Ferrer’s body and soul for over a year, and in May the “Dawson’s Creek” screenwriter killed herself in Los Angeles. She ...
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