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Poetry from Daily Life: Hearing dad's drumming on the steering wheel in a poem's beat
Springfield News-Leader via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoHarrison Keeping time “Music is like poetry is like Shakespeare is like me,” I wrote in my polka-dotted notebook while watching a performance of Beethoven’s Piano ...
‘Women and the Piano’ Review: Lives at the Keys
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoEven the highest praise sounded awkward. Clara Schumann (1819-1896) was hailed by a leading music critic of her era as “the greatest living pianist...
Review: At this year's Ojai Festival, Mitsuko Uchida introduces Mozart to zen
Los Angeles Times· 4 days agoWhen Schoenberg wrote “Six Little Piano pieces,” his Opus 19, he was he was in his mid 30s, taking...
Aldeburgh’s 1948 Festival Opening Night may have baffled Britten, plus the best of June’s classical...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoThe festival was conceived by composer Benjamin Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, as...
Sarasota Music Festival alum returns as faculty member to inspire young musicians
Herald-Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 days ago‘Passion and Pride’ The 2024 Sarasota Music Festival comes to a close with director Jeffrey Kahane...
Mozart and Modernism at the Ojai Music Festival
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoOverseen by pianist Mitsuko Uchida, this year’s edition of the California event balanced splendid accounts of familiar repertoire with impressive...
Putting down roots: Mainly Mozart to open All-Star festival at its new artistic home in La Jolla
U-T San Diego· 20 hours agoMainly Mozart made national news in 2020 with its pandemic-driven decision to present drive-in...
Ben Vautier, Artist Whose Specialty Was Provocation, Dies at 88
New York Times· 1 day agoA core member of the anti-art movement Fluxus, he died by suicide hours after the death of his wife...
The best things to do this weekend in San Diego: June 14-16
U-T San Diego· 4 days agoHere are some of the best things to do this weekend in San Diego from Friday, June 14 to Sunday,...
Philadelphia Orchestra renames hall after hometown legend Marian Anderson
NPR· 6 days agoI will play her Piano Concerto with them next spring, for the second time. Marian Anderson died in 1993, at the age of 96. She witnessed tremendous progress ...