72-Year-Old Rolls Back The Years To Tap Dance With His Granddaughter, 10, After Little Girl Pleading With Him To Be Her Partner For A Recital
Bill ‘Gramps’ Jones was delighted to be asked to dance by his granddaughter Maeve Jones, 10, needed a partner to help her practice for her summer recital The 72-year-old…
Remembering Zitkála-Á (Red Bird), A Successful Novelist, Performer, And Defender Of Native American Rights Who Built Bridges Between Cultures
Quaker missionaries lured the little Sioux girl with tales of orchards. Come with us, they said, and we’ll bring you to school. Her widowed mother protested. She’d lost a son to white…
Awesome Supercharged Boogie Woogie Pianist Henri Herbert
When Henri Herbert Sits Down At A Public Piano Henri Herbert is a pianist who specilises in the Boogie Woogie genre of music. His piano playing talents have been captured…
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi And Cello: Experimentation And Creativity Were Unceasing
Vivaldi and the Cello Antonio Lucio Vivaldi’s music is timeless. Performed within the orchestral world, period films, and popular culture today, his works and melodies are recognizable, even to…
Piano Thunderer Lang Lang Welcomes Bach’s Somber “Goldbergs”
For 20 years, the superstar pianist resisted playing this towering work in public. Now he’s releasing not one recording of it, but two. Lang Lang said that studying Bach’s “Goldberg”…
Tatiana Nikolayeva, Lugansky’s Piano Instructor, Demonstrated Excellence In Her Own Right
What an irony that Nikolai Lugansky, star pupil of Tatiana Nikolayeva was bestowed, perhaps by chance, the masculine form of his teacher-to-be’s last name. A prophetic link for both. …
A Guide to Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
After Rachmaninoff fled Russia in 1917, he composed only six original pieces during the remaining twenty-five years of his life. Having lost nearly everything in the revolution, he was determined…
Best Vivaldi Works: 10 Excellent Pieces By The Great Composer
Vivaldi was one of the greatest Baroque composers – discover our selection of his best works including ‘The Four Seasons’. Antonio Vivaldi’s (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) influence…
Glenn Gould: A Wilfully Foolish Genius?
It still sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard, however many times you listen to it: Glenn Gould’s first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, made in 1955, has an energy, an intensity…
Discovering the Quintessential Compositions of Mendelssohn: A Selection of Five Must-Hear Masterpieces
Octet Did he really write this at just 16 years old? An astonishingly accomplished work – written for two string quartets – that established the teenage Mendelssohn as one of the leading composers of…