When I think of jazz, horn or piano happily invades my mind. Piano is nice, yet horn is nicer—it can really let go and wail in a way that one...
When I think of jazz, horn or piano happily invades my mind. Piano is nice, yet horn is nicer—it can really let go and wail in a way that one...
The Sherman Ensemble performed a program entitled “Ode to Bernstein with a Dvořák Nightcap” at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent last night. The first half of the program offered a...
The Cassatt String Quartet offered an unusual program at Music Mountain in Falls Village last Sunday. Anyone who has heard them before knows that the first reason to hear them...
The Bard Youth Chinese Orchestra played its Premiere Performance at Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater last night as part of the newly formed US-China Institute under its Director, Professor, and Conductor...
In the tradition of the Slavophile Movement, (which later included Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn), 19th Century classical composers attempted to fashion melodies based on the legacy of Russian folk song, known...
While Rimsky-Korsakov’s the Tsar’s Bride (1899) has always been a popular resident in the Russian operatic repertoire, it rarely appears in the West because audiences who rely on translations of...
Program Eight of Bard College’s annual Summerscape Festival focused around Rimsky-Korsakov this year offered a sample menu of various popular parlor room pieces before the creation of the Moscow Conservatory...
Yesterday Igor Levit demonstrated that he has earned his position as one of the leading pianists of our time in a singular concert last night at Tanglewood. He...
