Jazz Professor Plays Drums on Nirvana’s ‘In Bloom’ Despite Never Having Heard It Before
Jazz drummer Ulysses Owens Jr., a professor and Small Ensemble Director at The Juilliard School in New York City visited Brandon Toews at the Drumeo studios in Abbotsford, British Columbia where he blindly played the drum track to “In Bloom” by Nirvana. Toews…
The Top 10 Greatest Cellists in Music History
1. Mstislav Rostropovich Mstislav Rostropovich, a great cellist of the 20th century was born in Baku Azerbaijan in 1927 to parents who themselves were talented musicians. Before entering Moscow Conservatory…
Opera Student Steals the Show after Crashing Lisette Oropesa’s Show in Style
Opera student Liu Jianwei was enjoying Lisette Oropesa’s show when he realized there was no male singer onstage to complete the full lyrics to Sempre libera. The 24-year-old student decided…
The Duo of a Powerful Opera Singer and a World-Class Cellist Performs a Passionate Live Rendition of “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables”
Jonathan Antoine is a classically trained opera singer from England. He is a tenor vocalist who emerged into the public eye in 2012 after appearing on a British talent show.…
These Classical Masterpieces Are Not Created by Whom You Think They Are
So, who wrote Albinoni’s beautiful Adagio? And what about Bach’s famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor? The answers are not that obvious, as not all music was written by…
Yo-Yo Ma’s Enchanting Bach Performance in the Majestic Great Smoky Mountains
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach’s Cello Suite no.1 against the backdrop of green trees and a babbling brook of the Great Smoky Mountains foothills in Tennessee. The film coincides…
The Most Outstanding Classical Music Albums of 2023 So Far
Debussy Études. Pour le piano, etc Steven Osborne pf Hyperion Steven Osborne brings extraordinary colour, characterisation and imagination to this album of Debussy’s works for solo piano, and the recorded sound is absolutely superb.…
Glenn Gould Explains Johann Sebastian Bach’s Genius on a Public Television Show (1962)
The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould was one of the most brilliant and idiosyncratic interpreters of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. In this 1962 special for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Gould reveals…
Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach Cello Suites: Melodies to “Help Us Navigate Through Troubled Times”
“Believe it or not, this was the very first piece of music I started on the cello when I was four years old,” said Yo Yo Ma before playing the “Prelude”…
New Christmas Carols: 3 New Carols Have World Premiere in London
Building on his lifelong love of choral music, London-based film and theatre composer Ben Morales Frost has composed three brand new carols for release this Christmas. In performances featuring the City of London Choir and conductor Hilary Davan…