No cabe duda de que las obras orquestales, si bien es cierto no tienen la profundidad e intimidad de los cuartetos clsicos de cuerda, en cambio poseen un basto horizonte de sonoridades que nos llevan en arrebatos emocionales de esa placidez de que slo supo Bach o a ese delirio que entrega en el campo del dolor Tchaikowsky al final de su Sinfona Pattica.
In the last decade of his life, starting when he was a sixty-two-year old curmudgeon in a backwater Slavic country, Czech composer Leo Jancek produced operas and chamber music that would stun the music world, one masterpiece on top of another.
If you enjoy great music but want to know more about how it came to be the way it is - without investing time in a graduate degree - here are the background stories of over 200 great compositions.
At the 2007 American Choral Directors Association Southwestern Convention, I presented an Interest Session lecture titled John Finley Williamsons influence on Americas choral singing.
In this freshly revised edition of his classic biography, bestselling author J Randy Taraborrelli takes Frank Sinatra's vast audience where it has never been before: deep inside the private life and affairs of this complex, emotional man.
In this collection of academic essays, award-winning pianist and music professor Yaokun Yang shares her carefully compiled analyses of classical music and aesthetics during several different periods, focusing particularly on the aspect of piano performance practice.
The East End is one of the most famous parts of London and it has had its own distinctive identity since the district was first settled in medieval times.
Since the thirteenth century, the sitara stringed, plucked instrument of Indiahas transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world.
A la edad de ocho aos, David Kingston abandona su natal Inglaterra despus de que sus padres huyeran amenazados por oscuros personajes del parlamento britnico, tras protagonizar una protesta hecha en su contra.
A 1959 New Yorker profile captured the inspired risk-taking and raw creative spark of a Budapest String Quartet rehearsal: "e;Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage with exaggerated schmalz, like a street fiddler in Naples.
This story is about Marguerite, an accomplished pianist who lost her ability to play the piano after suffering a paralytic stroke that almost took her life.
