How Can You Start Listening to Classical Archives on Sonos?
Two months ago, I knew nothing about the Sonos home music system. Today, I am happily listening to Classical Archives on Sonos. How did I get that to happen? I am going to explain the process in today’s post. First, I bought a Sonos PLAY:1 speaker Its list...
DakApp, a Formidable Online Library of Masterclasses for Serious Musicians
It has been nearly six months since I downloaded and started to investigate DakApp, a new app for serious students of classical music. DakApp is one remarkable resource for students. In today’s post, I would like to explain what it is and why it belongs on the...
You’ll Have Much Merrier Holidays with Jeffrey Biegel’s Steinway Christmas Album
Here is Jeffrey Biegel delivering holiday magic in “Sleigh Ride” by Leroy Anderson. Pure happiness . . . what a perfect way to begin today’s post! I recently wrote a post on this blog about pianist Stewart Goodyear’s CD of his own arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s...
All I Want for the Holidays Again this Year Is . . . Stewart Goodyear Playing His Piano Arrangement of The Nutcracker
It has been a year since I wrote a post about the Steinway & Sons CD of the complete Tchaikovsky Nutcracker ballet masterfully arranged for piano and played by a phenomenal pianist named Stewart Goodyear. At the time, I wrote that this CD was the perfect Christmas...
You Are There! Reliving History through Music
We might not always enjoy participating in history . . . but thanks to music, we can relive important events in the past I invite you to watch Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky’s “Festival Coronation March,” which was written for...
The Devil Drops In . . . Ghostly Apparitions in Opera
Let's start today's post with this terrific video of an early scene in Verdi's Macbeth in which our title Thane encounters witches in a barren landscape. Riccardo Muti conducts . . . Ghosts, witches and the devil often appear in opera, and you will discover...
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