We're talking about the above pair of headphones -- the Orpheus HE90 from Sennheiser.
Nexus has put together a 20-year programme to ensure the Metro network survives - dubbed Project Orpheus.
Saxophonist Wayne Shorter has recently composed for and performed with both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
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The Orpheus offer from 7 - 100, 000 -- we're guessing even some bats could struggle to hear frequencies that high.
"The New Brandenburgs, " is a four-year project, launched by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which will spawn six new pieces of music.
He is one of carnival's most prolific float builders, creating the rides of some major parades like Orpheus, Endymion and Bacchus.
It's based on the legend of Orpheus, the musician and poet who journeys to the underworld to bring back his dead wife, Eurydice.
Orpheus has commissioned six composers to each take one of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and write a new piece based closely on the master's.
Pianist Richard Goode, who has regularly played with the Orpheus, says he enjoys the direct communication he has with all sections of the orchestra.
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Not from an inadvertent glance or a yearning gaze did Orpheus lose Eurydice forever, but from an act of renunciation born of existential despair.
That is the task before them: to countenance the land of the dead like Orpheus, and to carry on in the land of the living.
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The group is privileged to enjoy a private rehearsal of the Stravinsky-Balanchine's gestating avant-garde ballet "Orpheus, " which would soon premiere and be hailed as a masterpiece.
David Cromer's staging, which incorporates lengthy excerpts from "Orpheus" that are well danced by Natalia Alonso and Michael Rosen, is delicately poised and full of rich silences.
This is much more suitable repertoire for her than Georg Philipp Telemann's "Orpheus, " the baroque piece in which she made her debut with the New York City Opera last season.
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With the new headphone amplifiers, Sennheiser is now taking up the tradition of the Orpheus, providing music lovers with the perfect combination of Sennheiser headphones and a specially matched amplifier.
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This Carnegie Hall concert, by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, features two orchestral pieces by Schumann that have been remodeled, so to speak one by the composer himself, and another by Paul Chihara.
The final 'New Brandenburg' is slated for its premiere during the 2010-11 season, when Orpheus plans to play all six new works in tandem with all six of the original Brandenburg Concertos.
In this concert, performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer, Orpheus began with a performance of the original Brandenburg No. 3, followed by Theofanidis' new-fangled Bach.
The event is called "Poetry Parnassus" -- named after Mount Parnassus, known in Greek mythology as the spiritual home of poetry, the stamping ground of the lyricist Orpheus and the hang-out for the Muses.
The size of the ear-cups is also a major factor in the overall luxury of the Orpheus, and the ovular design means your ears sit snuggly inside, while they dish out the delicious audio.
Rosemary Dunleavy staged the ballet selections from "Orpheus, " which are gracefully performed by Natalia Alonso as Maria Tallchief, Native American ballerina and wife to Balanchine, and a puppyish Michael Rosen as her young American co-star.
The project recently passed phase two with the concert presented here, as Orpheus gave the first performance of Muse, a new piece by American composer, Christopher Theofanidis based on Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.
Now, one of my earliest impressions of Brazil was a movie I saw with my mother as a very young child, a movie called Black Orpheus, that is set in the favelas of Rio during Carnival.
Michael Cerveris is smooth and calmly imperious as Balanchine, whose impracticality and devotion to his artistic vision are subtly presented by Nelson through the "Orpheus" rehearsal process, as well as via anecdotes, called "George stories, " shared by his amused and admiring friends.
Sitting at a table on a busy mezzanine inside of Manhattan's Riverside Church, one of the orchestra's rehearsal spaces, violinist Ronnie Bauch and cellist Melissa Meell look back at the evolution of the Orpheus Method, the egalitarian organizational principle at the heart of the orchestra.
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