Orchestral Musicians Bring Whales To Surface – This Will Take Your Breath Away
Optus, the second-largest telecommunications company in Australia, has a long association with nature so M&C Saatchi, Sydney set about exploring communication between humans and animals, specifically Humpback whales. “Whale song…
Listen to a ‘100% Accurate’ Reconstruction: Here Is What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reedpipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars…
Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins: A Born Slave Turned Piano Virtuoso
Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins seated at his piano. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons A slave named Charity struggled to deliver her baby on a Georgia plantation in the spring of…
Celine Dion Stuns The Tenors with an Unforgettable Live Moment Onstage
The Canadian Tenors are a very experienced group of singers. They have performed on TV numerous times, including at the Emmys, the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and even for the…
Rare Portrait Of Frederic Chopin Found At A Flea Market
On the occasion of the 18th Frederic Chopin Piano Competition taking place in Poland, a rare portrait drawing of composer Chopin has been revealed to the public. The portrait painting…
Emotionally Inspiring: Five Chopin Sad Pieces You Must Hear
Frederick Chopin has to be one of the most iconic composers of his age. In so many ways he embodies the Romantic image of a composer; genius, mysterious, sufferer, and…
The Hardest Violin Pieces: Exceeding the Limits of Difficulty
For the purposes of this article, I will confine my selection of violin works to the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods of music. Once you stray into the pieces of the 20th or even 21st century, there…
Pink Delivers a Touching Duet With Her Father On “I Have Seen The Rain”
Pink shared a heartwarming duet with her dad, Jim Moore, onstage at her show in New York City when the pair sang “I Have Seen the Rain.”. Jim played acoustic…
Uncovering Yunchan Lim’s Amazing Skills – Is He Our Times Greatest Young Pianist?
Pianist Yunchan Lim exploded onto the international music scene in 2022 when he won the gold medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, joining the ranks of past winners like Radu…
Bach Performed By Cellist Jay Campbell At The Cpr Performance Studio Was Captivating
He champions music by modern composers like Gyorgy Ligeti and John Zorn. Campbell opted to play something a little more traditional during his recent session in the CPR Performance Studio:…