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		<title>John Cale and The Ninth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m finishing a documentary about the global impact of Beethoven&#8217;s Ninth Symphony, I keep finding places where the Ninth makes an appearance. This one is a big surprise, a contrarian take on the Ode by a founder of the Velvet Underground.]]></description>
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		<title>Beethoven&#8217;s Loneliness and His Joy, by David T. Murphy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have asked some of my colleague and friends to write out their thoughts about Beethoven and the Ninth for this blog. There will be many more, from Isabel Lipthay and others involved with Following The Ninth. This piece is by David Murphy, a friend of over twenty years who I met at Trinity College [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Nicole Sandler and Billy Bragg about the Ninth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I produced a concert in Santa Monica called Beethoven Billy Bragg Ninth, a premiere of Billy&#8217;s new version of the Ode To Joy. He has taken the choral part and has rewritten a version in contemporary English. The concert, a benefit for Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), was a great success. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beethoven Bragg Concert Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of this video from the Beethoven Bragg Ninth concert in Santa Monica in August, 09, will be used in Following The Ninth. Billy sings the new words to the Ninth libretto.]]></description>
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		<title>Abonwabisi Brothers, Capetown South Africa, Khayalitsha Township</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I met the Abonwabisi Brothers when I travelled to Capetown with Ben Zander to film two Beethoven 9 concerts he conducted there. The screenwriter Barry Berman was kind enough to introduce me to the Brothers, and then arranged a trip to the Khayalitsha Township to film them in their homes. The Abonwabisi Brothers are now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article about FTN for Symphony Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a piece I wrote about the film and my journey. It will appear in the March/April issues of Symphony Magazine The day is cold and wet and, for a Californian, somewhat intimidating as I have not, sartorially speaking, been properly acclimated. But I have already made my morning pilgrimage to the Burggarten, a [...]]]></description>
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