by Barry Lenson | Oct 11, 2016 | Jewish Music, Yiddish Theater
With the Jewish High Holidays drawing to a close, we would like to invite our many Jewish members and friends to enjoy a rich sampling of songs from the Yiddish theater. All selections are available for listening here on Classical Archives. You will find two...
by Barry Lenson | Sep 30, 2016 | Andres Segovia, Guitar Music, Johann Sebastian Bach, Uncategorized
Sometime around 1964 when I was in high school, my parents made me take off my baseball glove and put away my bike on a Sunday afternoon. They then made me put on a sport jacket and itchy woolen pants and told me, “We are going to hear Segovia.” Sure enough, the great...
by Barry Lenson | Sep 12, 2016 | Camille Saint-Saens, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Uncategorized
Over Labor Day weekend, I decided to write a post for this blog about all the wonderful pieces of classical music that celebrate working. The problem seems to be, there aren’t too many of them. At the same time – and this is funny – there is no shortage of popular...
by Barry Lenson | Sep 1, 2016 | French Music, Maurice Ravel, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized
I am enthralled with one of the new releases that are available for listening here on Classical Archives. It is a two-CD recording on the Urania Arts label of the great Belgian/French maestro Andre Cluytens conducting the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du...
by Barry Lenson | Aug 22, 2016 | Great Pianists, Ignace Pleyel, Muzio Clementi, Piano Music, Uncategorized
Can your piano be a composer? Not really. I have to admit that the title of today’s post is a trick question. But the fact is, at least two important composers – Muzio Clementi and Ignace Pleyel – were also manufacturers of pianos. They put their names on the...
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