Style Warriors
It's a source of both frustration and amusement that there are still lots of people around determined to fight the musical style wars of forty or fifty years ago. It's not much of a surprise that you...
View ArticleRhythmic Bite: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube
The pianist Conrad Tao, Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and Wagner are among the highlights.(c) NY Times All the news about classical music and opera in press and media
View ArticleClassical music: Read a rave review of John DeMain’s current production of...
By Jacob Stockinger Some readers have asked The Ear: How come John DeMain (below, in a photo by Prasad), music director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the Madison Opera ,...
View ArticleBabes in arms
Chances are you’ve been wallowing in Wagner all week, and I head up den Grünen Hügel tomorrow for eight days, so it’s time for some attractive and very young singers, coloratura with embellishments,...
View ArticleMichael Feinstein to Swing to Gershwin Alongside Pasadena POPS
Michael Feinstein and the Pasadena POPS jazz up the Los Angeles County Arboretum stage with an evening devoted to one of America's most beloved musical icons for Gershwin & Friends on Saturday,...
View ArticleClassical music: The Salon Piano Series at Farley’s House of Piano announces...
By Jacob Stockinger The reliably virtuosic and musically enjoyable Salon Piano Series has just announced its 2017-18 season. A piano duo, piano soloists and the Pro Arte Quartet provide traditional...
View ArticleOpolais your woman now
“Closing the program will be a selection of songs from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, including the Introduction and Jasbo Brown Blues; ‘Summertime,’ featuring Kristine Opolais and the Tanglewood Festival...
View ArticleGeorge Gershwin: He had rhythm, he had music… - Classical-Music.com
This is distorting. His passions in classical music ranged widely, from Bach to Alban Berg. Musical training may have been piecemeal, but he sought out tutors throughout his life. His piano teacher...
View ArticleGeorge Gershwin: He had rhythm, he had music… - Classical-Music.com
This is distorting. His passions in classical music ranged widely, from Bach to Alban Berg. Musical training may have been piecemeal, but he sought out tutors throughout his life. His piano teacher...
View ArticleGeorge Gershwin: He had rhythm, he had music… - Classical-Music.com
This is distorting. His passions in classical music ranged widely, from Bach to Alban Berg. Musical training may have been piecemeal, but he sought out tutors throughout his life. His piano teacher...
View ArticleGeorge Gershwin: He had rhythm, he had music… - Classical-Music.com
This is distorting. His passions in classical music ranged widely, from Bach to Alban Berg. Musical training may have been piecemeal, but he sought out tutors throughout his life. His piano teacher...
View ArticleGeorge Gershwin: He had rhythm, he had music… - Classical-Music.com
This is distorting. His passions in classical music ranged widely, from Bach to Alban Berg. Musical training may have been piecemeal, but he sought out tutors throughout his life. His piano teacher...
View ArticleMaking Music Together
The Westport-based husband-wife concert pianists Cathy Waldman and Paul Levi, who call themselves the Four Hand Band, performed today at a Gorham Avenue private reception. The classical and...
View ArticleMichael Feinstein, Pasadena Pops have a special night on tap at the LA County...
Although Michael Feinstein has made a career as the foremost proponent of "The Great American Songbook," the music of George and Ira Gershwin holds a special place in his heart, which makes the...
View ArticleLang Lang will open Carnegie Hall with a support pianist
Details of the Hall’s opening gala: We are excited to inform you that legendary jazz artist Chick Corea will join Lang Lang as featured soloists in a two-piano arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in...
View ArticleElbphilharmonie Worldwide LIVESTREAM all week
Elbphilharmonique Worldwide - livestream all week ! Sunday 27th August 20hr German time Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (founded 1879, fully orchestral 1907) Aaron Avshalomov Hutongs of Peking He...
View ArticleLeonard Bernstein: 99
Today is Leonard Bernstein’s 99th birthday. We remember him as a composer and conductor, of course, but we sometimes forget he was an exceptional pianist too. Here he is with the New York...
View ArticleClassical music: Today is Labor Day. Opera San Jose brings classical music...
By Jacob Stockinger Today is Labor Day (celebrated below by famed photographer Lewis Hine.). The holiday probably won’t be celebrated in a big way by the blowhard billionaires and anti-union tycoons...
View ArticleThere should be no demarcation lines in music
My suggestion in a recent post that we are using a too narrow definition when discussing new audiences in particular and classical music in general leads me to Lalo Schifrin's Jazz Mass. In a Facebook...
View ArticleRecent updates to previously posted music
09/18/17 Debussy #6 +1CD Etudes & Children's Corner by Julia Dahlkvist (2012) 09/18/17 Debussy #5 +1CD Préludes by Hiroko Sasaki on Pleyel 1873 (2010) 09/13/17 Mozart on period instruments New rips...
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