As a youngster, Felix Mendelssohn was drawn to the works of Shakespeare, particularly the shimmering fairytale magic of A Midsummer Evening’s…
Browsing: Classical Music
Freed from the literal which means of a textual content, the wordless vocalise floats right into a dreamy and surreal…
Alfred Brendel, the Czech-born Austrian pianist, author, composer, and lecturer, handed away on Tuesday (June 17) at his house in…
Francis Poulenc’s Violin Sonata is music born out of battle and tragedy. It’s one among a sequence of defiant, politically…
Brian Wilson, the legendary American musician, songwriter, singer, file producer, and co-founder of The Seashore Boys, handed away final Wednesday,…
In his later years, Liszt more and more pursued his favoured causes through the use of piano transcriptions of different…
Composer and musician Pleasant Wealthy Marsella (Photograph courtesy of the artist)Brampton native and eclectic musician and composer Pleasant Wealthy Marsella…
World Listening Day (Picture: Nadene Thériault-Copeland)The Sound Travels Sound Artwork Competition provides a summer season’s value of programming at New…
L-R: Mezzo-soprano Hillary Tufford; tenor Christian Matta; pianist Helen Becqué; soprano Maeve Palmer (Images courtesy of the artists)Mezzo-soprano Hillary Tufford,…
For American composer John Adams (b. 1947), the inspiration for the solo piano work, China Gates, got here on an endlessly…