Guest Posts

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212 Posts
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When the Obstacle Becomes the Music
How physical and psychological adversity shaped some of classical music’s most radical voices There is a persistent myth in the telling of great artistic lives: that genius triumphs despite its hardships. The more honest — and more interesting — story
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Elías Manzo Makes a Poised Carnegie Hall Debut
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York — June 9, 2026 A Carnegie Hall debut is often as much a test of artistic identity as of technical accomplishment. In his appearance at Weill Recital Hall, Mexican pianist Elías Manzo
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Ethel Leginska: The Woman Who Rewrote the Rules
History has a reliable habit of erasing women who made their mark – and the history of classical music is no exception. Some were too inconvenient to remember. Ethel Leginska (13 April 1886 – 26 February 1970) was one of
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The Three Pillars of Western Classical Music
Bach built the architecture. Mozart gave it a human voice. Vivaldi taught it to paint. No single mind invented Western classical music. It was assembled across centuries — through faith, craft, theatre, and intellectual daring. But among its many masters,
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Not Memory but Departure: Sokolov’s Schubert D960
In Frankfurt, Grigory Sokolov’s Schubert D960 did not sound like a work looking back. It sounded like a work leaving. That distinction matters. Many performances of Schubert’s last B-flat major sonata are shaped by memory: they invite the listener into
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Elegant Plagiarisms: Classical Themes in Popular Songs
The Great American Songbook is a term describing the canon of the most important and influential popular songs from roughly the 1920s to the 1950s. During this era, popular songs were widely disseminated in the United States via phonograph records,
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Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Song Recital?
I am a guest curator at the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival from 15 to 23 May. In discussing what theme we might choose, various ideas have come to mind – Kurtag’s anniversary, The Northern Landscape? Perhaps unsurprisingly – given my
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“Art must not wait for permission first”
An Interview with Maestro Xu Zhong
RWV BAMBERG Richard-Wagner-Verband Bamberg e. V. The internationally renowned Chinese conductor Xu Zhong is, among other things, Artistic Director of the Shanghai Opera House and Chief Conductor of the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra. Marko Cirkovic interviewed him about the new production
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