Cellist Trey Lee is the proud curator of Musicus Fest 2026, which will showcase 11 performances across Hong Kong from early November to mid-December. As founder of Musicus Society, he champions cross-cultural collaboration, heritage preservation, and nurturing young talent. This
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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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At the end of Beecham's 1958 Meistersinger Prelude, the crowd erupts. These live Berlioz and Wagner recordings from the Royal Festival Hall capture a conductor who prized "the dramatic and picturesque" above all. Have a listen!
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By 1816, Beethoven, always hungry to innovate, was pressing against the compositional conventions that he himself had helped cement. By this point, he was also completely deaf. This isolation reshaped him; he communicated through notebooks, withdrew from the concert life
