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Expert: Pat G - 3/6/2009


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I've been watching the PBS special "Visions-Great Cities Of Europe" During the breaks where the two hosts talk about the special and it's featured cities, there is a beautiful piece of classical music playing in the background. Is there any way to get this identified?

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Elliot,

I went over to pbs.org and poked around quite a bit, and I haven't been able to find a thing about it! I don't watch TV, and I don't even have access to PBS, so I don't offhand know what it is. If you can find this online where I can listen to it, I can make the attempt. You can also email someone at the web site and ask. But I just plain came up dry. If none of this works, you can try asking someone else, or you can ask me again and I can throw it into the question pool. Sorry I couldn't be of more help! But if I could hear the music somewhere, there's a chance I could identify it.

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I am no longer answering questions asking me to identify music. Most music is either on YouTube, which crashes my browser, or on another site that crashes my browser. I am available for other questions.

Experience

I have been playing piano since I was 3, and I am now 66 years old. I took formal lessons for about 11 years, and took some piano and organ performance courses in college. I also sang in the Masterworks Chorale for a number of years, and can sing anything from baritone to first soprano. We performed twice a year, usually a major choral work, ranging from requiem masses to Carmina Burana. I also attended recorder society meetings once a month. We would read compositions and perform them together. I took several children to their music lessons and rehearsals and usually stayed and watched intensely. Our children studied violin, viola, flute, guitar, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, and trombone.

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I studied piano and organ in college, and took courses in music theory. I have also taken seminars in pre-Columbian folk music with Xochimoki, as well as played a short while in a gamelan, and a balalaika orchestra, where I played autoharp.

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