The love story between Robert and Clara Schumann is often regarded as one of the most romantic in classical music history. Happily for historians, many of their love letters survive. They document their inner thoughts and emotions, as well as
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Musicians and Artists: Harris and McCahon July 3rd, 2021 The art of the landscape painting has become rarer in modern art – with our closed urban environments, it’s more difficult to take that longer view, to survey the world, and find one’s position in a green space. New Zealand -
Serenades and Symphonies July 2nd, 2021 We think of serenades like lullabies – songs to put you in a sleepy mood and to help carry you off into dreams. Serenades, however, are from a different source – they’re not designed to lull you to sleep like - Small Is Beautiful
6 Exquisite Piano Miniatures July 1st, 2021Amidst all the great works for piano – the concertos and sonatas, themes and variations and suites – the miniature, a small work just a few minutes long, is often overlooked. Yet the genre includes some of the best and -
Ryan Speedo Green July 1st, 2021 “Come dal ciel precipita” from Macbeth American bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is carving out a reputation as one of the great young singers of today. He has performed across the US and Europe, including roles at the Metropolitan Opera, Wiener - Writing the Past into the Future: Bacewicz’ Concerto for Strings June 30th, 2021 Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was one of the leading Polish composers who brought Polish classical music into the international mainstream. Following the example of fellow-countryman Karol Szymanowski, Bacewicz combined Polish folksong with modernism in music. More so than any other country,
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Writing From the Heart: An Interview With Adrienne Albert June 29th, 2021 After an outstanding career in New York as a singer, working with and performing the music of Leonard Bernstein, Philip Glass, Gunther Schuller, and Igor Stravinsky, soprano Adrienne Albert (b. 1941) returned to California and started on a new but - Czech Folktales: Dvořák’s The Golden Spinning Wheel June 29th, 2021 When Antonín Dvořák returned from the US in 1896, he took poetic ballads from the Czech poet Karel Jaromír Erben as the basis for a set of symphonic poems, including The Water Goblin, The Noonday Witch, The Wild Dove, and
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Discover Influential Latin American Composers of the 20th Century II June 28th, 2021 In the last article, I mentioned several composers from different Latin American countries. This article will introduce two important Mexican composers, Manuel Ponce and Carlos Chávez. They were both significant figures in Mexican music history. While Ponce was influential to
