When the February Revolution of 1917 broke out in Petrograd, Sergei Prokofiev resettled in the USA, stating that his native…
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Maybe because of his turbulent private struggles, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was drawn to tales of doomed love. It’s a theme…
“The all too acquainted hymns of my childhood have come again to hang-out me,” wrote American composer Ingram Marshall (1942-2022)…
On September 14, 1814, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the Royal Navy in the course of the…
Composer/poet Oscar Lorenzo Fernández was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1897. He went on to develop into a number…
When Present Boat opened at New York’s Ziegfeld Theatre on December 27, 1927, it marked a revolutionary second within the American musical…
It was a visit to the Caucasus Mountains that impressed Russian composer Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) to write down Islamey: Oriental…
Jascha Heifetz was the last word “crossover artist” earlier than the time period existed. Through the Second World War, Heifetz…
English composer Gustav Holst discovered inspiration, not solely within the people music of his place of birth, but in addition…
As a youngster, Felix Mendelssohn was drawn to the works of Shakespeare, particularly the shimmering fairytale magic of A Midsummer Evening’s…