Beginner's Ear

Beginner's Ear elevates the art of listening through meditation and live music. Curated holistic cultural experiences & talks on mindfulness, silence & sound.

[Beginner's Ear @BeginnersEar]

Normally, musicians help heal the world. But right now it's the music world itself that needs healing. Join Corinna on @ClassicalNEXT in an hour for a guided #metta #meditation specially designed for the field of music: https://t.co/e9EXXMyGKZ

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Here's a time-bending Spotify playlist with a couple of bonus tracks to chill out to: https://t.co/5gq5mPShbA

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Meditation and music are two of the most powerful tools humans have devised to bend #time. With the lockdown blurring our normal time keeping markers, here's a playlist of works that speak to the coronavirus time warp: https://t.co/MIOr8L97p0

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Now online! Join us June 5 for a first live streamed celebration of #mindfulness and music with the extraordinary @tepferdan playing Bach Inventions alongside his own improvisations. Pay what (if) you can tickets here: https://t.co/JZAtPuwnTB

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Can information get in the way of experience? @TommasiniNYT explores program-less concerts, and the @BeginnersEar "trust fall" model, in this fascinating notebook: https://t.co/qv9v0BLBnK

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Breathe a little magic into your Thursday morning (9 am) with guided #meditation and gorgeous improvised music by @jenshyu and friends. @WQXR @TheGreeneSpace

[The Greene Space @TheGreeneSpace]

Start your Thursday morning with a guided meditation from @WQXR’s Beginner's Ear series back in January. Featuring acclaimed pianist Taka Kigawa, hosted by New York Times contributing critic Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim. https://t.co/4EUpr2geYn

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Revisit @TakaKigawa's gorgeous performance of piano music by Bach, Boulez, Chopin and Messiaen on Thursday as @TheGreeneSpace kicks off a series of weekly morning music #meditation on Thursdays, 9 ET: https://t.co/sVGSu9JNTG

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A #meditation on resonance in times of dispersal and isolation. Join @ICEensemble and a worldwide chorus of meditators each Saturday in April: https://t.co/y1C8bx1bVE

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Maybe after a few more millennia of noise, evolution will give us earlids. Until then we have only the power of attention to change what and how we hear. @WQXR https://t.co/TM1HNR6PKv

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3/6 last chance to catch @BeginnersEar at @TheGreeneSpace in the current series of lunchtime music meditations. Hear @LayaleChaker w/ the polyglot ensemble Sarafand in music from her beautiful 'Inner Rhyme' (10 Best of 2019: NPR) in an all new light. https://t.co/XDxPLkeHxL

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New Yorkers get a rare chance to hear the phenomenal guitarist @ArtyomDervoed in performance this Friday. Check out the incredibly subtle tone colors in this video, then grab your tickets for a very special music #meditation here: https://t.co/SHqiNj63zP https://t.co/7PEfY5aUcc

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This Friday: get closer to the music with @mcgillab, @Kylepwalker and Amadi Azikiwe with guided #meditation and mindful listening @TheGreeneSpace in collaboration with @WQXR. Tix on https://t.co/wQdupWFiWC

[WQXR Classical @WQXR]

FRIDAY: Dive into colorful sound worlds of music for clarinet, viola and piano in different configurations as @mcgillab, principal clarinetist @nyphil, joins forces with the violist Amadi Azikiwe and the pianist @Kylepwalker.
Get info and tix: https://t.co/0BxqrvCht3

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#ValentinesDay is not a good day for getting a restaurant table. But it's perfect for a bit of self care, like an hour of mindfulness & gorgeous music with the wonderful @alessiobaxpiano and @lucillechung at @WQXR's @TheGreeneSpace in Schubert & Debussy. https://t.co/ed0HDwIunU

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12.30 pm today! Enlighten your lunch break with a little guided meditation and half an hour of gorgeous music at @TheGreeneSpace with @WQXR. See how mindfulness transforms a concert into a uniquely restorative oasis of calm & beauty. https://t.co/zESkMSiuKO

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To truly listen we have to erase the inner chatter. See how guided #meditation transforms the experience of music this Friday lunchtime at ⁦@WQXR’s⁩ @TheGreeneSpace⁩ with works for 1,2 and 3 violins performed by members of the Quodlibet Ensemble. https://t.co/FIEbbchDtB

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Enlighten your lunch break this Friday 1/31 with guided #meditation and @lisapianomoore's exquisite renditions of works by @philipglass, Julia Wolfe, Hannah Lash and @JuliandelaChica, who joins in on synth. Tickets on https://t.co/VlF0f4j4Bk

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Breathe new life into your Friday with guided meditation & live music at @WQXR's @TheGreeneSpace including @silkroadproject's Kaoru Watanabe on flutes and drums. (Here he is on the spellbinding fue.) Tix at https://t.co/Nskdorgmd9 https://t.co/verSD2pprp

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How much texture, nuance and expression can you infuse into a single note? Marvel at gamin's gorgeous piri solo, then grab your ticket to see her at Friday's Lunar New Year Beginner's Ear on https://t.co/Nskdorgmd9 https://t.co/faGzeFH2po

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Decades after those rug concerts at the @nyphil, I think Pierre Boulez would have been pleased to see New Yorkers meditating to his music. And thrilled with @TakaKigawa's gorgeous performance.

[Taka Kigawa @TakaKigawa]

Setlist today at @BeginnersEar / @TheGreeneSpace / @WQXR - Boulez: Notation IX, Debussy: Pagodes, Chopin: Prelude Op. 45, Boulez: Notation V, Bach: Prelude in E-flat minor WTC1, Messiaen: Je dors, mais mon cœur veille, Boulez: Notation XI, Bach: Prelude in D major WTC1