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	<title>Before &#38; After</title>
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	<description>Behind the scenes at Gardner After Hours</description>
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		<title>Garden of Earthly Delights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Isabella Stewart Gardner was an avid and skilled gardener and landscape designer. It may be possible that her initial interest in horticulture came through her grandmother Isabella Tod Stewart, who received awards for agriculture from the state of New   York (which Isabella put on display in the Short Gallery of the museum). Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Mahanthappa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so we&#8217;re a little late. At this point, if you don&#8217;t already have tickets, you&#8217;re not going to be able to see the Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet&#8217;s concert in the Tapestry Room tonight, because we&#8217;re completely, utterly beyond sold out.  But, if you&#8217;re the plan-ahead type and you do have those tickets already in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mrs. Gardner Abroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mrs. Gardner compiled 27 scrapbooks during her extensive world travels which included, in part, journeys to Europe, Turkey, Japan and Cuba and each experience was carefully recorded.  In some scrapbooks, her observations are made in the style of an anthropologist taking field notes, as she sketched and defined hieroglyphics and illustrated monuments or jotted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Magnus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Considering coming to our &#8220;Composer Portraits&#8221; concert Thursday night?  Find out more about Magnus Lindberg, the composer we&#8217;ll be profiling, in this article in Sunday&#8217;s Boston Globe.

This 49-year-old Finnish composer is a major voice in European music, but one that is heard all too rarely in this country&#8230;He wields a technical arsenal of enormous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gardnerafterhours.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/more-on-magnus/</link>
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		<title>Happy 1903!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mrs. Gardner was well aware of the curiosity the building of her museum as well as its architect (herself) aroused in the citizens of Boston, and she collected news clippings that described reactions to both.  Click on the scan at left to zoom in and read the original story of the museum&#8217;s opening celebration.
While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isabella&#8217;s advice for the holiday table</title>
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As was the custom in nineteenth century society, great wealth brought civic responsibility.  Mrs. Gardner fulfilled her duties with unusual flair.  Fenway   Court (the turn-of-the-century moniker for today&#8217;s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) was the setting for events to benefit local charities as well as support for artistic creation. These events included [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gardnerafterhours.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/isabellas-advice-for-the-holiday-table/</link>
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		<title>A Musical Feast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people think of the Renaissance as a flowering in the visual arts, but in fact all of the arts went through vital changes during this period of European cultural rebirth. Even food changed during the Renaissance—surviving recipes from the period indicate a shift away from the boiled grains and blancmange of the Middle Ages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions for Chris Enright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 15th, composer and pianist Chris Enright will open the Jazz at the Gardner series with a performance at 7pm.  We talked with Chris recently about his music. 
Tell us a little about the music you&#8217;ll be playing.  Any stories behind how any of these tunes came into being? 
We&#8217;ll be playing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gardnerafterhours.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/questions-for-chris-enright/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve got rhythm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a sneak peak at this month&#8217;s gallery tour:
Sure, we have concerts every Sunday in season, performances throughout the year, and other hip events, but what is the rhythm of the Gardner? Seems obvious that old Isabella Gardner had style, but did she have rhythm? Could she boogie in those heavy, silk and satin, Victorian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gardnerafterhours.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/weve-got-rhythm/</link>
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		<title>Musicians talk about Hemphill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Duke Ellington, the pinnacle of praise was to describe a musician as &#8220;beyond category.&#8221; The late Texas-born saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill, who came up through the worlds of R&#38;B and jazz, merits the full measure of that Ellingtonian encomium. Read more.

For an article in yesterday&#8217;s Globe, jazz correspondent Kevin Lowenthal interviewed a number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gardnerafterhours.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/musicians-talk-about-hemphill/</link>
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