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 ...
Gabriela Ortiz is one of Mexico’s best-known classical composers, and she’s gaining recognition in the United States. The Los ...
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 (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — ...
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 ...
Trouble in Tahiti/A Quiet Place, Royal Opera House, ★★★★☆Leonard Bernstein was a tortured genius ...
Classical music has a gender problem. Pick almost any metric, and classical music’s gender statistics are dire. Only 7.5 per ...
Dr. Sookkyung Cho, an associate professor of piano at Grand Valley State University, performed in a faculty artist recital on ...
Southbank, London SE1 (southbankcentre.co.uk), Sept 25 – 29 The diamond geezer and world’s best-selling ... s boldest ...
“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 ...
If you are over A Certain Age, you might recall that short but rather self-righteous poem by Frances Cornford entitled, ...
The Northeast Kingdom Classical Series opens its 35th anniversary season on Sunday, November 3rd, 3 p.m., with a concert by ...