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		<title>Join Dianne This May in Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick perusal of the itinerary of this great trip to Vienna, Venice, Lake Como and more this May and it will be clear why I&#8217;m so excited!  We&#8217;ll be hearing our SF Symphony perform live in Vienna, stay in a castle near beautiful Lake Bled in Slovenia and enjoy an opera at the legendary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kdfc.com/dnicolini/2011/01/14/join-dianne-this-may-in-europe/</link>
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		<title>YouTube Symphony Gets Local</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YouTube just announced the winners of their 2011 auditions for the YouTube Symphony Ochestra.  Musicians were invited to post audition videos on YouTube, the public voted and I&#8217;m happy to say that the Bay Area will be well-represented with 4 new members:
Violinist Leyan (LEE-an) Lo (Stanford)
Violist Omar Shelley (SF)
Cellist Stephanie Lai (Palo Alto)
Piccolo Daniel Sharpe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kdfc.com/dnicolini/2011/01/11/youtube-symphony-gets-local/</link>
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		<title>Cure for the January Doldrums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the several ways in which I am still like a 5-year-old girl is my need to have fun things to look forward to.  Currently fulfilling that need is a spectacular trip to Europe coming up this May. The details are here and all I need is you to join me!-Dianne
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		<link>http://blogs.kdfc.com/dnicolini/2011/01/04/cure-for-the-january-doldrums/</link>
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		<title>Plenty o&#8217; Nuttin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American composer John Cage&#8217;s iconic 4&#8242;33&#8221;  is climbing up the charts in Britain.  Fairly surprising for a piece that actually contains no music, only silence! The ironic artistic statement from the 50&#8217;s has become a rallying cry for Brits who object to the manipulation of the national music charts by the likes of  Simon Cowell.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kdfc.com/dnicolini/2010/12/15/plenty-o-nuttin/</link>
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		<title>When too much is a good start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year our entire holiday decorating effort has been to hang a wreath on the front door. We&#8217;re off to snowy Colorado for Christmas so I thought we&#8217;d let the decorations rest this year. Others around our neighborhood have splashed lights around their houses with varying degrees of success and flair. There&#8217;s one &#8220;wonderland&#8221; type [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kdfc.com/hoytsmith/2010/12/14/when-too-much-is-a-good-start/</link>
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		<title>Classical Scoreboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The effort to make classical music more accessible continues with a provocative suggestion from a sports lover.  Why not keep a running &#8220;score&#8221; of a piece while its being played? Click here to see the original blog entry.
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		<link>http://blogs.kdfc.com/dnicolini/2010/12/09/classical-scoreboard/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Get This On Kindle!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For lovers of art, birds, and publishing history, this is one for the ages.  A well-preserved edition of James Audubon&#8217;s 19th-century masterpiece Birds of America fetched $10 million dollars at auction today. Each page contains a hand-painted, life-size painting.  Check out the stunning images below.
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		<link>http://blogs.kdfc.com/dnicolini/2010/12/07/cant-get-this-on-kindle/</link>
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		<title>Classical music changing lives and maybe communities.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She&#8217;s a former heroin addict who lives in a crime riddled city along the southern U.S. border. Alma Rosa Gonzalez is helping poor children learn classical music and give  them an outlet that might stop them falling prey to the gangsters who are  terrorizing Ciudad Juarez on the Texas border. Inspired  by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kdfc.com/hoytsmith/2010/12/07/classical-music-changing-lives-and-maybe-communities/</link>
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		<title>Barber&#8217;s Adagio Saddest Music?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new book by Thomas Larson explores the legacy of Samuel Barber&#8217;s most famous piece during this, his centennial year. In The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber&#8217;s Adagio for Strings,  Larson writes &#8220;The Adagio&#8217;s sonorous intensity also speaks of the turbulent inner life of its composer.&#8221;  The author is in town [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kdfc.com/dnicolini/2010/12/01/barbers-adagio-saddest-music/</link>
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		<title>A musical tradition begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A crowd of KDFC listeners joined us at Yoshi&#8217;s in SF for the First Annual KDFC Holiday Concert Live on Tuesday November 30. The wonderfully talented, funny and overall entertaining Canadian Brass set a high standard for future musical groups in seasons to come. Here are some more photos from a very enjoyable evening.
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