1. Waking up: Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht What is better than the Coffee Cantata to start your day? Bach was said to be a coffee lover and this very short comic opera –…

Piano players create a world of melodies, harmonies, and expressive musicality via their command of the keyboard. They have a special talent for using the piano’s expressiveness and versatility to…

 We cannot explain what you’re about to hear. Science just doesn’t know enough about the brain to make sense of Alma. Alma Deutscher is an accomplished British composer in…

Move over “Flight of the Bumblebee.” There might be a harder song to play, and twelve-year-old child prodigy Alexandra Dovgan is showing us how it’s done.  This young piano player…

Of course, the great composers were all human. In fact, in terms of their faults and foibles, many of them were all too human. Vanity, greed, recklessness, temper, lust, you name it…

For 52 years, the Valley Symphony Association (VSA) has been bringing classical music to life by supporting volunteer musicians of all ages and walks of life who hail from throughout…

In the summer of 1968, a friend and I went to see the blockbuster movie of the year—2001: A Space Odyssey. We settled into our seats and the theater went dark.…

A lonely piano with the label “Play Me” stands alone at Heathrow Airport. Passengers rush to their terminals to board their flights, past the lone piano. Those that know how…

Brendan Kavanagh wore his signature shades and played on a public piano which appeared to have mesmerized two Punk Rockers. There was a cellist who played with Kavanagh during the…

Performances of Handel’s Messiah are now a public ritual, yet our annual sing-ins and choral society performances misrepresent the work. Conceived at a career low, Messiah was successfully test-run in Dublin, but…