The most poetic musician who ever lived? It’s hard to disagree with Liszt’s appraisal of Schubert, who, in his short life, used his astonishing gift for melodic and harmonic invention to create many ...
The Sage Chamber Music Society presents Schubertiade: Celebrating the Music of Franz Schubert on Graf fortepiano Sunday, November 7, at 3 p.m. in Smith College’s Sweeney Concert Hall. After postponing ...
Franz Schubert's final, painful days in November 1828 included bouts of delirium, requests for novels by James Fennimore Cooper, ceaseless singing and snatches of lucidity, when he actually worked on ...
It's hard to say what the afterlife holds for musicians who choose to tamper with Schubert's songs by performing them in instrumental arrangements. On one hand, you've got to admire their love of ...
The February 2015 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features a composer whose short stature and portly girth earned him the affectionate nickname of ...
Thomas Meglioranza first heard Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, a cycle of 24 songs, when he was 18. “That got me hooked on singing classical music,” said award-winning baritone Meglioranza, who earned a ...
Deep in the bowels of the Radio Centre in Dublin's Donnybrook sits Studio One. Much larger than the others that line the walls of the two parallel corridors on its flanks, Studio One is a performance ...
Franz Schubert wrote over 600 songs during his short life and, naturally, some have captured the attention of singers, pianists and listeners more than others over the decades. His top-shelf songs ...
While he lived, the schoolmaster’s son Franz Schubert made no great splash in the world. Intimates called him Schwammerl, or Mushroom, supposedly because he was small and round. His occasional travels ...
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Paik Kun-woo, at 80, says 'Music chose me'
At 80, celebrated South Korean pianist Paik Kun-woo says he feels freer than ever. "Reflecting on my past, I was under a lot ...
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