The implication, of course, was that playing classical music was not fun. At about the same time, someone posted to Facebook a video of 3-year-old Jonathan in his living room "conducting" Brahms' ...
Four pianists at one keyboard? Eight hands playing at once? Really? Yes, really! Recently, Anja Kalaba, Katie Stahl, Jessica Yuan and Eric Zhuang, all Manheim Township High School seniors, were ...
On Feb. 22, the Hamel Music Center will host the Undergraduate String Chamber Orchestra with the Monona Brass Quintet. The concert, which is all undergraduate-run, will include works by Leos Janacek, ...
With 25 million YouTube hits, the musical comedy duo Igudesman & Joo is going viral with classical music. Mozart meets the “James Bond Theme” and the Bee Gees. “I Will Survive,” the disco hit, gets ...
It might just be because I am getting old, but suddenly it seems like classical music is newly cool. Tár, Todd Field’s caustic portrait of a celebrity conductor, was the most critically consequential ...
Each summer, Pasadena families have the opportunity to enjoy classical music and have some really unusual fun - nothing stuffy about the gathering at the Pasadena Convention Center at 10:30 a.m. on ...
It’s hard to imagine, but there really was a time when classical music was the popular music of the day. Haydn, Beethoven and the boys were the “rock stars” of their time. If music fans wanted to hear ...
Weekend mornings anchor, CBS New York; Correspondent, CBS News and Stations Elaine Quijano is a weekend mornings anchor for CBS New York and a correspondent for CBS News and Stations, contributing to ...
Violinist Jenna Sherry is the artistic director of the Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival in New Orleans. (BCMF) Birdfoot Festival has dropped "Chamber Music" from its official title, but this New ...
Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo promise to have the audience jumping out of their seats when they perform the U.S. debut of their concert “And Now Mozart” at the Carpenter Center on Sunday. They’re ...
Like any endeavor, classical music has its own specialized language. But unlike many endeavors, the lingo of classical music comes from many different European languages, each with its own special ...