The divide between cultures is as wide as it has ever been today. However, there is a bridge that links us all. Our spoken languages and lifestyles have and always will be different, and vive la différence I say. These

By now we have all seen the shocking images of the horrific fire engulfing Notre-Dame de Paris, the most famous Gothic Cathedral of the Middle Ages. For over 800 years, it has stood as an icon and symbol of Western

During his honeymoon journey to India, Albert Roussel visited the ruined city of Chittor in Rajputana, currently located in Rajasthan. That city had a very colorful and long history, and once he returned home to Paris he approached his friend

The piano summer school is now an established part of the year for many adult amateur pianists, eagerly anticipated and prepared for with great care. Much more than a “piano holiday”, the piano summer school is an opportunity to study

There are few American composers with Jennifer Higdon’s credentials: Pulitzer Prize winning, Grammy Award winning (twice), and, most recently, winner of the Nemmers Prize for Composition, which brought in US$100,000 and a work to be performed by the Chicago Symphony

One of the composer-faculty members for this year’s Intimacy of Creativity (IC) will be Philadelphia composer David Ludwig. He’s bringing the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble for Hong Kong University of Science and Tech (HKUST) Music Department’s live workshop for composers and

When you get two modern artists together, something special happens. In this case we have a composer/painter in Arnold Schoenberg and the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. As the story goes, in early January 1911, Kandinsky, who was in Munich, went

Leopold Mozart writes to his wife from Rome, “We arrive here safely on the 11th at noon. I could have been more easily persuaded to return to Salzburg than to proceed to Rome, for we had to travel for five