Articles

4078 Posts
archive-post-image
Do You Know These Alluring Piano Trios by Women?
The piano trio literature – music for violin, cello, and piano – is splendid to listen to and wonderful to play. Virtually every composer of note has written in this genre, including the greats such as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert,
Read more
archive-post-image
Does the 1939 Classical Music Movie Intermezzo Hold Up Today?
In September 1939, a quiet, understated film called Intermezzo: A Love Story premiered in the United States. Intermezzo premiered the same year as Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, Of Mice and Men, and other classics.
Read more
archive-post-image
10 Easy But Beautiful Piano Pieces
No Moonlight Sonata or Heart and Soul, here. The most frustrating part of learning any new skill is that period of time in which your taste and your abilities just don’t quite match up. You’d love to be playing Rachmaninoff
Read more
archive-post-image
National Family Day (September 22)
A Toast to the People You Can’t Return
Family Day is a public holiday in a variety of countries, and on 22 September, it puts the spotlight on the people who make our lives meaningful. It’s all about that one uncle who shows up uninvited to every gathering,
Read more
archive-post-image
Andrei Gavrilov (Born September 21, 1955)
Passion, Struggle, and Genius
Andrei Gavrilov, born on 21 September 1955 in Moscow, emerged from the Soviet Union’s rigorous musical crucible as a prodigy whose fingers danced with both ferocity and finesse. His victory at the 1974 International Tchaikovsky Competition, at the tender age
Read more
archive-post-image
The International Day of Peace (September 21)
A Noble Idea in a Not-So-Peaceful World
Every year on 21 September, the world pauses, or at least pretends to pause, for the International Day of Peace. It’s a day where we’re supposed to hold hands, sing Kumbaya, and imagine a world where everyone gets along. Sounds
Read more
archive-post-image
Francisco González Gamarra: Peru’s Painter of History and Composer of the Andes
When you enter a gallery adorned with Francisco González Gamarra’s monumental canvases, time seems to stand still. Paintings such as “The Foundation of Lima” or “The Spanish Foundation of Cusco” do not merely depict history; they revive it by evoking
Read more
archive-post-image
Dancing with Pablo de Sarasate
Gypsy Airs and Stolen Kisses
Imagine a dapper Spaniard with a meticulously trimmed moustache, a Stradivarius violin tucked under his chin, and a flair for making audiences swoon with every flick of his bow. That’s Pablo de Sarasate, the 19th-century violinist and composer whose music
Read more