Multitalented violinist Yury Revich will give the world premiere of his own composition, OCEAN, a new work for solo violin and orchestra, at Carnegie Hall in New York on November 12. Hailing from a four-generation musical family, Yury has built
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Dutch composer Douwe Eisenga is offering the sheet music of his popular composition For Mattia as a free download for pianists and harpists. Written in 2017 at the request of Mattia’s parents, the piece commemorates their daughter, who died by
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Paintings in Carl Schimmel’s String Quartet No. 2, “Six Faces” The paintings in Carl Schimmel’s Second String Quartet, Six Faces, are all Cubist works painted between 1911 and 1920. The 4 women and 2 men are shown with their belongings:
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Ask a cellist to name the great 19th-century cello concertos, and you’ll get the same four or five answers: Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Brahms’s Double, Dvořák. What you won’t hear about is everything else – and there was a lot of everything
