Quotes are often erroneously attributed ... He usually sits at his toy piano, practicing Beethoven’s music or explaining why Beethoven is one of the greatest. Lucy is perhaps the biggest reason ...

In her lifetime Fanny Mendelssohn was what we might today call “privately famous.” Family and friends in her wealthy circle knew she was a concert-quality pianist, and often heard her perform ...

This dearth led to the famous ... patron of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, was founded in 1813, and the Royal Academy of Music, which attempted to train British musicians to the same standard as those on ...

“Villains are always the best roles,” Hackman told The Washington Post in 1996. “It’s the best kind of acting. The things you get to do.” “Dysfunctional families have sired a lot of pretty good actors ...

The concert started with Jean Sibelius’s mighty yet enigmatic tone poem Tapiola. Sibelius described the work to his publisher ...

President's Day, celebrated on the third Monday of February, honors all U.S. presidents, particularly George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Initially recognized as Washington's Birthday, the ...

Steven Ferrer was a scholar under the Friends for Cultural Concerns of the Philippines (FCCP). Despite discouragement from others to pursue a career in piano, Steven chose this path and graduated ...

It’s hard not to envision Chris Martin and his piano when thinking of Coldplay ... He didn’t need to be Beethoven to make music. But how he forms humble progressions into hymns is its own ...

it recounts Flack’s rise to stardom—and how the green piano salvaged from a junkyard by her dad started it all. Flack’s legacy is captured by one of her most enduring quotes: “Remember ...

Synchromism deserved better than it got in the Guggenheim's "Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930." ...

It wasn’t easy to find a photograph of Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson and Chinese pianist Yuja Wang together when I flagged their two-piano Symphony Hall recital in this season’s upcomi ...

By Zachary Woolfe When two pianists appear together in concert, the usual setup is for the curves of their instruments to hug in a yin-yang formation. The musicians face off across the expanse ...