| Part of Series | NPR's Next Generation Radio |
| Length | 05:48 |
| Licensor | Next Generation Radio |
| Producer(s) | Claire Blaustein |
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| Produced | 2005 |
| Added to PRX | July 17, 2006 |
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Claire Blaustein studies the musical elements in several scores of music that have long inspired a sense of horror in listeners.
http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum05/index.php?x=show
Claire Blaustein is the enemy - a former performer, graduating from Indiana University-Bloomington with a degree in violin performance, she turned to the dark side and decided instead to pursue a career criticizing the work of others. She now is getting her master's in music criticism from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
She came to NPR partially as an escape from being a lonely American in Canada, eh? - but mostly because NPR programming had been a part of her life for as long as she could remember. "I was always on my way to or from lessons or rehearsals, and NPR was on in the car," Claire said. "I got dirty looks from many a conductor because I couldn't make myself miss the end of a segment." The thing she is most grateful for in her internship is that they even let her in the building at all. "Once you're in here, there's no limit to what you can learn."
Claire interned at NPR's Performance Today. She also writes freelance criticism (which means that no one really asked for her opinion, but she gives it out anyway) for JIVE magazine and The Washington Post.
English
How do we know when we hear evil in music? Is it the crashing dissonance, the screeching soprano? Claire Blaustein studies the musical elements in several scores of music that have long inspired a sense of horror in listeners.
