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 ...
Tchaikovsky may have loathed it, but his 1812 Overture has just been voted the UK's most popular piece of classical music ... Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 remained in second place.
This quiet midsummer’s evening saw the first performance of a work that would become one of the most consistently popular pieces of classical ... performed the piano part himself in the ballroom ...
Pianist Loren DiGiorgi quite humorously and musically reimagined famous classical ... sounds like as a classical composer ...
the Ferry Corsten remix of William Orbit’s electronic rendition of Barber’s famous 1936 piece has created euphoria across dancefloors worldwide. Orbit released two albums of classical covers ...
Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste is set to release his first solo piano album, titled "Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, ...
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 ...
NEW YORK -- When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — ...
Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano ... and literature. Famous Romantic composers include Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mahler, and Verdi – to name but a few! The Romantic era is known for its intense energy ...
Gabriela Ortiz is one of Mexico’s best-known classical composers, and she’s gaining recognition in the United States. The Los ...
Classical music has a gender problem. Pick almost any metric, and classical music’s gender statistics are dire. Only 7.5 per ...