For centuries the world of classical music has been a somewhat one-sided story, with some brilliant music written by Black composers being wrongly neglected. October is Black History Month, and this ...
Leonard Bernstein was a tortured genius, and even though Bradley Cooper’s much-hyped biopic of 2023, Maestro, did not quite ...
Tacchino also plays the Piano Concerto and Aubade ... and there’s an intriguing selection of smaller pieces. The Suite ...
88 keys, 88 shades of musical bliss: described as the ‘king of instruments’ by Franz Liszt, the piano enchants with its sonic prowess and possibilities. It occupies a special place in the classical ...
Gabriela Ortiz is one of Mexico’s best-known classical composers, and she’s gaining recognition in the United States. The Los ...
Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano ... as pieces of stand-alone orchestral music that evoked anything from a painting or poem to a feeling of nationalistic fervour. The Romantic era gave birth to ...
NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — ...
One of the 20th century’s most enduring, endearing works of classical music, George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” was ...
Classical music has a gender problem. Pick almost any metric, and classical music’s gender statistics are dire. Only 7.5 per ...
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Dr. Sookkyung Cho, an associate professor of piano at Grand Valley State University, performed in a faculty artist recital on ...
“The classical piano is usually associated with a stodgy music hall and getting super-dressed up for a formal event. This breaks down those barriers and creates a very relaxed environment to ...