Category: Features
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PRACTICING the piano is torture for many kids but for 11-year-old Niu Niu, letting his fingers dance across the keyboard is just as much fun as dashing around outside in… more ›
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Imagine this: you drop onto the sofa on a Sunday afternoon, switch on the TV and see a dapper young man with a baton standing before an orchestra and demonstrating… more ›
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Alex Ross of The New Yorker notes that millions of Americans will enjoy music by an unusually long list of intrepid composers when Martin Scorsese’s film “Shutter Island,” starring Leonardo… more ›
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The German word Klaviertiger — which hardly needs translation — might have been invented to describe the musical and technical prowess of the young Ukrainian-born pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who shot… more ›
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Completed – or so he thought – at the moment of his country’s greatest peril with Hitler’s forces camped in the Moscow suburbs, Sergei Prokofiev’s operatic adaptation of Tolstoy’s War… more ›
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Brooklyn is, especially for musicians, a neighborly borough where formal barriers barely exist anymore. more ›
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Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax: A Carnegie Hall concert on Friday marked the bicentenaries of Chopin and Schumann. A Peter Lieberson piece inspired by Schumann completed the program. Read the… more ›
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A concert hall that’s no good for concerts. That’s the problem in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Builders are now hard at work and millions are being spent to replace the… more ›
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Simone Dinnerstein, who rocketed to fame in 2007 with her Goldberg Variations recording for which she had raised the money herself, has been signed by Sony Classical. The New York-based… more ›
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