Canadian composer and songwriter Bonnie Milne’s new single Glimpses grows out of memories that are both ordinary and strongly personal: watching her sons play outside as children, joyful gatherings with her parents, the taste of her mother’s baking, and walks holding her
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Chopin’s gales, Liszt’s blizzard, Debussy’s footsteps in snow
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Winter has inspired some of the most evocative music in the solo piano repertoire. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, composers often turned to the piano to capture winter’s many moods: biting wind, falling snow, frozen landscapes, and the
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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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Quatuor Hermès' Echoes of Vienna traces the city's musical soul from Mozart through Webern to Korngold, whose 1933 quartet acknowledged "the twilight of the once-great city of music." Have a listen!
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Over his career, Beethoven wrote thirty-two piano sonatas. The first fifteen – covering Op. 2 through Op. 28 – were composed between 1795 and 1801, a time known as his early period. These early period sonatas tell a story. His
