In classical music, the Romantic Era lasted from around 1810 to around 1910. That century gave us some of the most famous symphonies in the repertoire. Nineteenth-century composers like Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvořák, Schubert, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, and others elevated the symphony
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“Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are” January 19th, 2015When you walk out onto the stage for a performance, audition, competition or jury do your thoughts go wild with self-doubt or do you exude confidence? Do you slink into your seat and look down at the instrument or do -
The Royal Academy of Music January 18th, 2015 If you walk from Baker Street along Marylebone Road, you are greeted with hoards of tourists stampeding their way towards Madame Tussaud’s to gape at the wax models within. However, if you dare to push past the crowds and wander -
The Music that fuelled Occupy Hong Kong January 15th, 2015 Before the last of the Occupy Movement protest sites were removed in Hong Kong, the city’s financial district was awash with brightly colored tents, yellow umbrellas and banners of all shapes and sizes. The most striking was possibly the Lennon -
Gustav Mahler: Songs on the Death of Children January 13th, 2015 There can be nothing more tragic to a parent than the loss of a child. Imagine the grief of the German poet Friedrich Rückert, who lost two of his children to scarlet fever within a period of six months. Attempting -
Asteroid 22369 Klinger January 12th, 2015 Between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter lays a vast region of space occupied by numerous irregularly shaped celestial bodies. Known as asteroids and minor planets, this so-called asteroid belt was formed by violent primordial collisions. Scientist have -
Mozart in The Jungle
Spoiler alert! January 11th, 2015Beware—Mozart in The Jungle recently released on Amazon has sexual situations, graphic violence, adult content, and adult language. A racy shoot-em-up movie? No. It’s a ten part series about classical musicians in New York City and ostensibly what they have -
Le Gibet January 11th, 2015 It might be natural to assume that a starting point to playing a piece of music is to play all the notes as they are written. In this article, the question why composers might write notes that cannot be played -
Music be the Food of Love
Hans Gál and Hanna Schick January 10th, 2015An ancient proverb says, “a successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” And that is exactly what happened to Hans Gál and Hanna Schick. They were married for 65 years, and their devotion, dedication,