Jon Batiste's 'Beethoven Blues' Transforms Classical Works Into Unique Blues and Gospel Renditions
NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — ...
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Classical composer Gabriela Ortiz brings her distinctive Latin American-style rhythm to Carnegie Hall
Gabriela Ortiz is one of Mexico’s best-known classical composers, and she’s gaining recognition in the United States. The Los ...
Classical music’s women problem: ‘The gender ratio is appalling’
Classical music has a gender problem. Pick almost any metric, and classical music’s gender statistics are dire. Only 7.5 per ...
Detroit Symphony Orchestra celebrates 100 years of 'Rhapsody in Blue'
One of the 20th century’s most enduring, endearing works of classical music, George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” was ...
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Philomusica Quartet Features Pianist Juan Pablo Horcasitas
He serves as Piano ... the classical sonata form with contrasting but related episodes — mirroring the slow movement and ...
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Classical CDs: Trills, gavottes and barking dogs
That phenomenal technique in trills, runs and top notes remained, but it’s surprising how soon the more heroic tone to the middle range emerged – in Weber’s “Ocean! Thou mighty monster” from Oberon, ...
A concert that sent us into the damp Dorset evening with our ears ringing, plus the best of October’s classical concerts
Trouble in Tahiti/A Quiet Place, Royal Opera House, ★★★★☆Leonard Bernstein was a tortured genius ...
An utter marvel from the man who put the viola back on the map, plus the best of September’s classical concerts
Fairy-Tale Dances, Southbank ★★★★★ Classical concerts are usually sober, sit-up-straight ...
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Enjoy three of the best in NSO’s November concert
Classical music fans in the area won’t want to miss the first concert of Nottingham Symphony Orchestra’s 2024-2025 season.
Rick Wakeman on His Proudest and Most Baffling Music
If are looking to find its true essence, though, no one individual fits the description more than 75-year-old keyboardist and composer Rick Wakeman. Wakeman has since been in and out of the official ...
Yakama Native bassoonist Jacqueline Wilson helps Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra to ‘give deeper meaning’ to ‘Celebrating Our Homelands’
“Here’s a person who is an advocate for her Native American homeland,” Pham said about Wilson, who is performing Bassoon ...
Mimis Plessas, a mild-mannered giant of modern Greek music, dies at 99
Renowned Greek musician and composer Mimis Plessas has died just a week before his 100th birthday. Plessas’ prolific career ...