Guest Post: Catching Up With Jazz Pianist, Mark Polishook
by Emma Williams From the New York jazz scene to creating musical robots and 21st-century piano teaching - we catch up with the super talented jazz pianist, Mark Polishook. Tell us about your background and how you got into jazz piano My passion for jazz began as a...
Guest Post: Challenges and Solutions of Finding Extended Techniques for Contemporary Classical Music
By Anna Harutyunyan The contemporary classical music is full of surprises. At the beginning of the 20th century, composers of classical music started experimenting a lot. In this respect, the postwar era was remarkable not only for literature but also for music. This...
Quartour Van Kuijk Plays the Debussy and Ravel Quartets
The Emerson Quartet, the Juilliard Quartet, the Brodsky Quartet and other top string quartets have already recorded CDs that pair the quartets of Debussy and Ravel. There is a reason for that. While dramatically different in structure and mood, these two quartets are...
Happy 80th Birthday Year to Philip Glass
Didn’t Philip Glass compose the operas Akhnaten and Einstein on the Beach? Yes, he did. But now that he is 80, he is not resting on his considerable accomplishments. He is enjoying a year of nearly frenetic activity that would knock the tar our of most people half his...
Faschingsschwank aus Wien: A Musical Tongue-Twister You Can Enjoy Today
Many works of classical music have easy-to-pronounce names. There are Papillons (Schumann), Aida (Verdi) and other pieces that have mellifluous names that roll right off the tongue. Then we come to Faschingsschwank aus Wien (roughly translated, “Carnival Pieces from...
Featured New Release: Der Schwanengesang by Heinrich Schütz
The German composer Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) spent all his long life composing magnificent religious works - oratorios for Christmas and Easter, the transcendent Musikalische Exequien funeral requiem, and much more. At the end of his long life, Schütz composed a...
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