The house where Ferruccio Busoni lived from 1902-08, and where he composed his monumental piano concerto, was remembered with a memorial plaque yesterday in Berlin. Next month sees the centenary of the composer’s death.
Igor Levit, an outstanding interpreter of the concerto, shared his experiences of playing it at age 18.
Photos and videos of the piannist Maria Joao Pires show a small tattoo, a leaf perhaps, on the upper side of her right wrist. She has not apparently made reference to it. Does any of […]
There were 144 students registered for music at Jacnsonville University, 123 of them majors. But the private college, founded in 1934, has decided to shut down its music and theatre programs with a loss of […]
The dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison died yesterday in a Manhattan hospital. A titanic figure, rising to five-foot-ten, she commanded the stage until Mikhail Baryshnikov arrived, at which point they arrested global attention as the […]