One of the major difficulties of studying the Holocaust is understanding its sheer scale. The human brain isn’t built to process what the murder of millions of people really means. However, by zeroing in and looking at individual stories, we

Pianist Amy Fay was born in Louisiana in 1844. She began studying piano as a child and quickly proved to be very talented. She studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in the 1860s and, in 1869, took the

The relationships between composers and their family members are always fascinating. Those family dynamics tell music lovers valuable information about the so-called Great Composers’ characters, priorities, and inner lives: what things meant the most to them, what moved them, and

Audiences are always fascinated by composer love stories, especially when there’s an element of tragedy to them. Today, we’re looking at ten of the shortest marriages in classical music history, and all of them have that element of tragedy. Despite

Perhaps the most famous film about a composer, Miloš Forman’s 1984 Amadeus, brings to life the rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. The only film about a composer to win an Academy Award for Best Motion Picture, Amadeus

Hold onto your flower crowns, folks, because International Peace & Love Day is bursting onto the scene on July 7 like a confetti cannon of pure joy. It’s the kind of day when the world hopes to hit the pause

Gustav Mahler(1860 – 1911) once boldly proclaimed, “My time is yet to come,” a statement that foreshadowed the extraordinary legacy he would leave behind. His work serves as a bridge between the rich Austro-Germanic musical tradition and the daring experimentation

Klaus Mäkelä is a sudden superstar in the classical music world. Born in 1996, he is the most successful twentysomething conductor in the world today…and accordingly, one of the most controversial. Everyone in the field is asking: is he at