One week in the fall of 2003, the world seemed to be accompanied by a music that I love: the second movement, the Allegretto, from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. First, the jazz pianist Jacques ...
The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Chorus was joined by the DePaul University Concert Choir from Chicago, and pianist Jon Kimura ...
Hmmm. Loussier has been playing jazz-style realisations of Bach for some 40 years, and more recently (1997) turned his hand to Vivaldi. However, the Allegretto from Beethoven’s Seventh lacks Bach’s ...
Moises Kaufman’s ambitious play tells the story of Beethoven’s legendary Opus 120 variations and of a modern-day musicologist’s investigation into their ­genesis: specifically, how a medi­ocre and ...
Lately, the Charleston Symphony has been presenting concert programs that are more than an assemblage of individual works that seem to complement one another. The programs have been designed to tell a ...
How do you make the theme tune for one of the greatest movie villains sound less terrifying? Improvise on it and turn it into a stunning Beethoven-style piano sonata. This impossibly virtuosic ...