How to do a power bow like Yuja

The phenomenally successful Argentine-US composer has died at 93. An associate of Astor Piazzola, he hooked up  with Dizzy Gillespie’s band in the 1960s and worked a ferile line between Larin music and jazz. When […]

The ex-Russian pianist joins David Krauss this week for Speaking Soundly. Kissin, the precisionist, admits to bring human. He makes mistajes like everyone else. On one occasion he ran out of encores and the audience […]

Frankfurt’s young General Music Director Thomas Guggeis conducted his first Parsifal last night. He is 31. The director, Brigitte Fassbender, was also staging her first Parsifal. She’s 85. It went pretty well, by all accounts. […]