Pianist Shocks Classical Music Audience With Moonlight Sonata Dubstep Remix
Lionel Yu is a talented pianist who runs the Musical Basics YouTube channel. He was born on the 28th of July 1989 in Hangzhou, China. Later his parents moved to…
11-Year-Old Who Shocked The Judges While Being Planted In The “AGT” Audience Receives A Golden Buzzer
One of the greatest things about the X Got Talent programs is being blown away by alerted performers you never expected. That’s what happened on America’s Got Talent in June…
Check Out The Beautiful Moment Iraqi-Born Singer Emmanuel Kelly Fulfilled His Dream Of Performing Live With The British Band Coldplay
Emmanuel Kelly achieved fame after appearing on X Factor in Australia in 2011. It may seem like it was his lucky break, but Emmanuel had been working towards a musical…
Borat’s Hilarious Roast At The Kennedy Center Honors
The Kennedy Center Honors are a glitzy, glamorous affair that honours artists who have made a lifelong contribution to American culture. It’s a formal event, but no one appears to…
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Bread And Notes” Were His Childhood Companions
If Johann Sebastian Bach had a destiny, it was written on a stave: the last of seven children – seven, like the musical notes – and a descendant of a 150-year lineage of…
Extremely Gifted Pianist Gamazda Composes Renditions That Have Received 47.5 Million Views
Gamazda is a Russian pianist with some incredible talent. Offstage her name is Alexandra Kuznetsova, she was born in Moscow into a musical family. She began her musical journey by…
Why Debussy Disregarded All the Rules That Bach Had Written
Bach is often considered as the father of Western classical (and popular) music. His influence is great and still resonates today. Through a vast creative output Bach consolidated the rules of…
JS Bach and Corelli: The Baroque Era in Music and Architecture
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) were two of the composers most familiar to me in my youth, with their oratorios, concerti grossi and choral compositions, respectively, heard particularly during the…
Fritz Kreisler: The World-Deceiving Violin Virtuoso
Fritz Kreisler was one of the most naturally gifted violinists of his time. Born in 1875, he composed and performed haunting, romantic melodies that became huge hits, becoming world-renowned for his…
The Tragic and Triumphant Story Of “Oh, Pretty Woman” by Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison’s single “Oh, Pretty Woman” was released in August 1964.It spent three weeks at the top of the US’s Billboard Hot 100.It was the second and final number one…