When Histrionics Undermine the Music and the Pianist
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Another reason classical music is not reaching more young people: not because of how it sounds, but because of how it looks.
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By Dan Craft  BLOOMINGTON - So many talented area musicians, so little organized information about them.  And Pat Rosenbaum isn't happy about it.   She's so unhappy, in fact, that she wants to rectify the situation - immediately.
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When the French pianist HÃ©lÃ¨ne Grimaud and members of the New York Philharmonic performed chamber works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday, it seemed as if rehearsal time had probably been limited.
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Here, revealed for the first time, are some of the secret passions of the classical music critics of The New York Times â the music they listen to when they are not listening to timeless classics.
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The stupid moves the recording industry makes generally outweigh the smart ones.
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Perhaps nervousness accounted for some of the shakiness of the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater of Perm's performance on Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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It's a historian's equivalent of stumbling across a long-lost sonata - a fingerprint on an 18th-century letter that experts say may have been left by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father.
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Three new CDÂs attempt to go beyond modern conceptions of piano sound to show, in various ways, what kind of music Mozart might have heard on his own instruments.
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Chicago Tribune - Pop stars are no strangers to bad behavior. Smashed guitars, ruined hotel rooms--such misdeeds often are chuckled over later, written up in the tabloids, perhaps listed on invoices for damage. Not so in Russia, where the public expects its performers to remember that they walk in Tchaikovsky's footsteps.
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Classic(al) advice from Munger and Mozart.
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Sometimes, the two concepts can blur.
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Oscar Peterson's dazzling keyboard technique, commanding sense of swing and mastery of different piano styles could leave even his most accomplished peers awe-struck. His death brought forth tributes from jazz pianists spanning the generations.
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Beta blockers, which can quell anxiety, have become nearly ubiquitous in the classical music world. Are the drugs a godsend or a crutch?
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The Seattle Symphony Orchestraâs recent history serves as a cautionary tale on how, in an artistic hothouse, a tangle of emotion and politics can veer out of control and take on a life of its own.
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Andras Schiff is showing in his Carnegie Hall traversal of the sonatas is that a handful of relatively small but decisive steps lead from the Haydnesque playfulness of Beethovenâs earliest works to the grand proclamations of the mature ones.
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A professor in England challenges some widely held assumptions about Beethovenâs sonatas.
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What has changed about classical music is not how much the tradition means to its devotees, but how little it means to everyone else.