The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...
Levi.Sct is the classically trained pianist from Germany who's been making waves across the internet with his unique blend of classical music and hip-hop. The 21-year-old piano prodigy, who's ...
Classical pianist Hunter Noack and friends haul a Steinway Grand piano to remote places in Oregon. Classical pianist Hunter Noack and some of his friends haul a 9’ Steinway Grand piano to some of the ...
From homegrown heroes to visiting legends, here are Australia's favourite classical music and jazz stories this year.
Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion “Piano Slam.” The music-poetry mashup is at the ...
I really don’t mean to get all Music Appreciation 101 on you, but I need to ask: Have you listened to classical lately? On purpose, I mean. A local string quartet playing Vivaldi during cocktail hour ...
Google has taken the idea of Rock Band and Guitar Hero and pushed it one step further, creating an intelligent controller that lets you improvise on the piano and makes it sound like you actually know ...
From Beethoven’s aching solo piano works to Tchaikovsky’s swelling ballet themes, here’s our guide to the pieces we think are the perfect place to start, on your journey into classical music.
If the greatness of music is in its triple play of emotions, ideas, and sonic pleasure, the Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda, who died last week, at the age of ninety-one, holds a justified place in ...
Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...
BLKBOK performs with Rihanna in Atlantic City on July 17, 2011. Neo-classical pianist and composer BLKBOK (Charles Wilson III) found his calling at age six while performing a Mozart piece on the piano ...