Emanuel Ax (born 1949), American pianist, winner of the first Artur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, became a major contemporary interpreter of the traditional piano literature who was also...
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The New York Philharmonic's new season will take the orchestra deeper into the non-classical world _ with iTunes, cell phone ringtones and the Web.The orchestra also plans to expand its global reac...
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The art of the concert pianist is different from that of other classical soloists. The voice is immediately expressive of the singer’s personality; the violin, which fiddlers sometime think o...
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The art of the concert pianist is different from that of other classical soloists. The voice is immediately expressive of the singer’s personality; the violin, which fiddlers sometime think o...
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Simon Rattle stood in front of the Berlin Philharmonic, stretched across in front of the United Palace Theater's stage, and he towered above as if he were a mop-topped giraffe.Instead of playing at...
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Joshua Bell started playing the violin at age 4 and went on to become one of the world's leading performers. Now, approaching 40, he's venturing deeper into conducting.In an early present, eight mo...
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Hank Aaron has only faint recollections of the bat boy who would become a composer and write a composition about the home run king and two other towering black baseball heroes _ Jackie Robinson and...
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Who is today’s best American pianist? In a poll of New York music lovers and critics, the names most frequently mentioned would probably be Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Richard Goode, Garrick ...
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Who is today’s best American pianist? In a poll of New York music lovers and critics, the names most frequently mentioned would probably be Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Richard Goode, Garrick ...
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As you may have noticed, Mostly Mozart isn’t mostly Mozart anymore. Other powerful figures—Beethoven, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Fauré—are making themselves felt as never before...
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Like a bad nor'easter, the city's spring music offerings arrive with a roar. At the Met, a revival of Don Carlo, Verdi's most complex masterpiece, has a powerhouse cast led by the gorgeous young Am...
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