Music and Arts

On Friday, October 21 st , I had the privilege of attending a lecture given by the distinguished pianist Alfred Brendel at the School of Mu...

I cannot begin to tell you how much I love Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story . It is easy to love the music of West Side Story , with all...

There is almost always a gap, sometimes a big gap between the intention and the realization of what you are trying to achieve. It is that ga...

One would be at risk of stating the obvious to say that Frédéric Chopin’s two piano concerti contain highly original, ravishing, and brillia...

A recent article in the New York Times bears the eye-catching title Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen . In it, Mr. Anthony Tommasini, critic...

There is something very special about hearing young musicians play. Not jaded by “experience”, young people can sometimes bring freshness an...

During Vancouver ’s Cultural Olympiad 2010, music lovers had an opportunity to experience Gustav Mahler’s 8 th symphony, nicknamed “Symphon...