The idea of late style in creative works has long fascinated critics. Commentators have noted that for many artists and thinkers — from Beethoven to Einstein — the most groundbreaking, innovative, and ...
In 1994, Philip Glass wrote six seemingly ordinary piano etudes for conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies on the occasion of his 50th birthday. Glass also wrote them for himself. Etudes are ...
From practice rooms to concert halls, Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etudes present pianists with musical and technical hurdles that result in magical performances. Xiangyu Zhao is a composer, pianist ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Philip Glass has written numerous symphonies, operas, compositions for his ...
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Seulki Susie Yoo, DMA, is an internationally recognized pianist, whose interpretation is distinct in Romanticism music in the 19th ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The immensely versatile and internationally lauded pianist and conductor ...
Every great pianist learns the Chopin etudes and many pianists venture to play a few of them in public. But it is the rare keyboard athlete who dares to play them all in one sitting and before a live ...
In a review earlier this week, I wrote, “They will never stop coming, these excellent young performers—these pianists, violinists, et al. Never. There will never be a shortage of them.” The occasion ...