British pianist Clare Hammond selects unfairly neglected piano concertos that deserve to be performed more often ...
Superstar Lang Lang celebrates the piano’s appeal to music lovers young and old with a sequel to his celebrated Piano Book.
Classical piano from a member of the applied music faculty and high-energy American roots music are on tap this weekend at Bates. Pianist Anastasia Antonacos performs music by Schubert, Schumann, ...
About the time in the late 1700s that the piano was undergoing major evolutions, Mozart's publisher contracted him to compose three Piano Quartets. After writing the first, the publisher released ...
Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...
There’s surely a thick book to be written about the influence of Javanese gamelan on western classical music. Debussy ...
‘The Fabelmans’ features a moving original score by Spielberg’s long-time collaborator John Williams, sprinkled with classical music excerpts. In January 2023, Steven Spielberg’s “most personal film” ...
Young Sergei Rachmaninoff had a nervous breakdown after scathing reviews of his Symphony No. 1 in 1897. He was so shaken that he couldn’t compose for three years and eventually sought treatment, ...
Google has taken the idea of Rock Band and Guitar Hero and pushed it one step further, creating an intelligent controller that lets you improvise on the piano and makes it sound like you actually know ...
Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion “Piano Slam.” The music-poetry mashup is at the ...